Comments on: Rob Bell’s “Nooma 019 Open” – (Review)

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Rob Bell » Current News Trends — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:30:23 +0000

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By: Cindi

Cindi — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:31:19 +0000

Although I found this post extremely interesting and a great read, it saddens me that so many people find Bell’s message appealing and incorporate it in their “in home” bible studies, small groups, etc. I was at one of these small group meetings one evening and they played a Nooma DVD. To say I was uncomfortable would be an understatement. My skin was prickly and my stomach hurt. Extreme discernment? Ya think? I didn’t go back to that small group again. Not only did I not understand anything it said, I just didn’t like it. Regardless of the production quality, which was nice I guess. Weird but nice.
But seriously, these people with me in this house, they all go to my church and to my knowledge, my church doesn’t preach that doctrine. So what was up with that?
My heart is breaking that there are so many people out there that really believe that they are Christians, but they are really so very lost. The Bible is not that hard to follow…black and white, no gray. 100% God breathed. Absolute truth. Jesus is perfect, we are not. God is Almighty. Now what is so difficult to follow? So why do people search for “warm and fuzzy?” It just looks to me that Bell and others like him, want people to look up to him and hold him up. He wants to be worshiped for his theories.
That’s just wrong. Plain and simple.

By: Thinking Christian

Thinking Christian — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:49:15 +0000

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By: Rachel Miller

Rachel Miller — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:41:50 +0000

What lies behind Bell’s teachings is a clear connection to Hinduism: “divine energy” rather than “divine personhood” for one thing, as well as a meditative prayer that resembles the brahman-atman Hindu model of the “divine’s” connection with man. Beyond that is an even more basic human unwillingness to submit to the power of God. Ever since the Fall, mankind has been creating God in their own image, ordering Him to go along with their desires. It is the ultimate narcissism. This doesn’t surprise me, but it still grieves me.
Thank you again for another very insightful post! May God use it and you for His glory.