Anyone who has been tracking Jim West’s new blog – Zwingli Redivivus – may have picked up, a) that he is not restricting his posts to Mr Zwingli any longer, commenting on many of the same topics as in the earlier blog and, b) that his multiple-blogs-a-day itch is back – just like Mr. Schwarzenegger.
25 January, 2010
Jim West strays from the Zwingli and narrow
Posted by stalinsmoustache under blogs | Tags: Jim West |[16] Comments
25 January, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Well, what did I tell you?
25 January, 2010 at 11:41 pm
stray? that’s crazy talk. zwingli addressed every issue of the day. that’s what theologians do.
librarians, on the other hand…
26 January, 2010 at 2:09 am
Yeah, but none of that matters because he sword up and down that he would never blog again, so he must not be blogging. This is more of an online web journal.
26 January, 2010 at 2:11 am
actually that’s not true. what i said was that i was no longer interested in biblioblogging. a simple yet profoundly significant fact (which you and loren and apparently others are unable to apprehend).
26 January, 2010 at 2:15 am
I dunno, Jim. You never objected to the unqualified use of the word ‘blogging’ when asked.
26 January, 2010 at 2:19 am
Bailey: Any chance we will see you back blogging in the future?
Jim Nope. It – again- has become uninteresting to me. Now – if someone objects or maintains that the church website is a blog they simply show their ignorance. Its character is completely different because its purpose is completely different. So, again, no, I am not now nor will I in the future be ‘blogging’.
Me: Is there really any difference between this blog and your deleted one? I’ve never got over the gay suicide post, which may now be deleted, but for which you never apologised. In our opinion is was socially irresponsible to say the least.
26 January, 2010 at 2:57 am
Not only did Jim make plenty of statements about retiring from “blogging” — and looking forward to getting more rest on account of the resulting free time — his new blog is completely indistinguishable in content from his previous one. It’s the exact same blog, exact same content, exact same thing. Naturally.
26 January, 2010 at 7:50 am
Now Loren, one must be careful with such statements, for there is not so much in the way of archaeology.
26 January, 2010 at 7:54 am
And that’s been conveniently the point of the previous four deletions.
26 January, 2010 at 7:52 am
On a more general note: how often is it that someone changes their mind? If God does so in the Bible, then Jim West should be able to do so. And I am sure Zwingli changed his mind, for otherwise he would not have become a reformer.
26 January, 2010 at 8:45 am
Roland, Jim isn’t claiming that he changed his mind. He’s claiming that he’s living up exactly to what he promised.
But even if he tried claiming that he changed his mind, it would be easily exposed as false — which is exactly why his resurrection was so easy to predict.
26 January, 2010 at 9:55 am
I don’t actually care about the pretending he never said he wouldn’t blog again, or the attacks on his credentials (after all online seminaries, seminaries, american accredited or not american accredited are all the same outside america – not a bleeding scrap of difference: it’s the person and their work and their ability to argue with evidence that is considered, not their blinking degree)
I care that an anti gay agenda continues on top of that previous vile post on the gay suicide victim, something conveniently now swept under the carpet.
26 January, 2010 at 11:57 am
This situation reminds me something of the sort like that episode of the Animaniacs, where Rita and Runt run into Ross Perot in the artic, and he keeps saying to him: I quit, no I’m back in, no, I quit. Hey, I’m back in.
26 January, 2010 at 12:04 pm
You put you left foot in, you put your left foot out, you put your left foot and you …
26 January, 2010 at 12:17 pm
shake it all about.
Great. Thanks. Now the song will be stuck in my head for a while.
26 January, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Wheel of morality turn turn turn, show us the lesson that we should learn.