Laud-a-mercy

Would you buy a used 3-legged
stool from this man?*

  Laud-a-mercy 

Uncle Albert read my previous post. He may have had his eyes closed, he insisted, and he may have been breathing “regularly” (his term), but he wasn’t asleep. And the point of the Narrow Man’s sermon was in the Luke part of it, where he – “Roz’s friend,” as he called him – wondered if we believed that the one in whom the Scriptures were fulfilled was the ultimate revelation of God. “Etc.” What Uncle Albert said, “Etc.”
     “You were listening to that, right?” Uncle Albert asked. “The story from Luke. Jesus opens the scroll and reads from Isaiah then says, ‘Today, this word has been fulfilled in your hearing’?”
     “Yes,” I said. “I know the story.”
     “That’s the answer to the question, ‘Do you know the story?’” he quarreled. “I asked, ‘Were you listening when it was read?’ But no matter. If you know it, that’s enough.     
     “The preacher took the claim, ‘Today this is fulfilled in your hearing’ to line up with the theological notion that Jesus was – is – the ultimate revelation of God. If he was, then, God might be different than we imagined – or than we wished. But, the preacher went on, Did we believe that? – Jesus was the ultimate revelation of God.”
     “Okay,” I said because what else could I say?
     “Yes,” Uncle Albert said. “Yes, okay for you. But maybe not for most of the people sitting in the pew, especially at the later service, I’m betting. ‘Your friend’ – he called the Narrow Man this time – took two legs off the stool. He ended up sitting on a one-legged stool.”
     “Like a milking stool?” I said.
     “What?”
     “Not good?” I said.
     “Precarious as hell!” Uncle Albert can’t wave his arms anymore, but his voice did.
     I didn’t understand, so I said, “Oh.”    

                                                                  01.17.22 
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 * Would he sell one to you? Digital collage by Shoddee Graphics with apologies to A. van Dyck and Joe’s Used Cars.

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I don’t know where to start. This is confusing as hell!

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All right. Yes. But so is the 3-legged stool. So was the conversation with Uncle A. Life is confusing as hell. And whose big idea was it that theology could be method not doctrine?