Motes, Eyes, and Corrections, Oh my!

Sharp eyed (and witted) readers may note that in yesterday post I went out of my way to quote Matthew 7 1-5 (King James Version). Yet apparently did not connect it to my thesis at the end of the article. What is apparent is not always true. The synopses is the key here. To make the call for abolishing the "good works gets you into heaven somehow" meme I had to follow the steps of correction. I as a mortal man (thanks Adam, thanks Eve, good call listing to a talking animal,a serpent no less, nothing suspicious and shady there) I am imperfect and have an imperfect understanding of God's creation. Analytical thought and empirical testing are the best thing man has come up with to compensate for this handicap but they them selves are also imperfect as any creation of flawed man must be. So in order to strive for perfection we must rely on gods word as our guide. (I can see any secularist reading this going nuts about this statement, I'll get into why they are jumping to conclusions without facts in evidence in a future post, most likely tomorrow) This is hard to do because correctly assessing where we are in the journey is inherently flawed, and self objectivity virtually nonexistent. Let alone strived for by the mass majority of us and our fellow travelers on this road. I have gotten pretty good at self objectivity through lots of practice, lest any one think that's a boast it's more an acknowledgment of knowing my own faults. Case in point, I'm exceptionally greedy by nature. Those that know me outside this blog and face to face would dispute this, yet it is never the less true. It is precisely because I am aware of this fault I can work to counter that weakness and deficiency of character. This means when I chose to advocate the slaying of a publicly held erroneous and dangerous meme I had to as closely as possible follow the steps outlined in my quote of Matthew 7 1-5 (King James Version). Lest I risk being verse fours hypothetical imbecile. Only worse, as it would be in a highly public medium. One with built in feedback by those who would wish to point it out, over and over, with great zest, creativity, and zeal. I am somewhat safe in tackling this and other "controversial" subjects for two reasons: 1. I'm semi anonymous on the web, very few people know who "Inquisitor Mors" is (but very few is not "no one" obviously). 2. Even If I was not semi anonymous, at my present readership numbers I have little to fear. This second point will (hopefully) not always remain true. When that is the case I want to have already addressed how I arrived at the positions I take, and have it a matter of record. even though I can edit this stuff any time I choose, I only do so to correct legibility errors (punctuation, spelling, and similar things). I also don't depend on you, the reader taking my word for this. Eventually this page will be archived in sources beyond my ability to mask edits: Google cache and the internet wayback machine. This forces me to be as open, honest, and truthful as I can be, and to make really, REALLY, sure I have followed God's "best practices" guide. Also, as I am incapable of true self objectivity this blog will act as a "self Objectivity Accuracy Gage and Automatic Correction Mechanism". I suspect if I get more readers I wont have to ask what I'm doing wrong to find out about it. This is after all a Two way communication medium. So while I am aware I didn't completely dispassionately call for this splinter to be removed from the public's mind's eye, I feel I was close enough to get the job done. It is a splinter that badly needs to go. Allowing grieving non-Christians the hollow comfort of "he/she is in a better place" and "I'll see him/her again in the here after" is disastrous. Allowing Christians to comfortably abdicate their personal failure of responsibility in showing these people the light of God is much much worse and erodes our message and example.