Sunday, October 26, 2008

Osteen Math

I was just listening to a critique of a sermon by Joel Osteen. While there are a number of doctrinal items to get into, I want to tackle the fundamental inability that this man has to think. He states that God did not create you to be average. By implication that means that God created us all the be above average. Now logically what does that do to the average? That's right it raises the bar for what average is. Then of course if Osteen is right, God must have made us all better than that again. Again the average raises. Can you see how such a simple foolish teaching is undone by the mere application of logic. I really wish that Osteen would just stop embarassing those of us Christians who have actually read the bible and know it is not a order form for personal wealth, health, and other dreams.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's called the Lake Wobegon phenomenon--when everyone is "above average". Thank Garrison Keillor for that one (while ignoring his inane political rants that come up now once every 4 years).