Congratulations, genuine readers. You have now successfully read more of this blog post than many others will.
Yes, it’s true. Many people only read the title of a blog post or article, and then leave a comment on it without reading anything else.
So if you have read this far, do NOT comment on this post, but instead, share it on Facebook or Twitter, then sit back to see what sort of comments come in from people who read nothing but the title.
This post is actually inspired by an April Fool’s Joke from NPR last year.
I was reminded of it this week when Al Mack posted one of my article son Facebook, and it was painfully obvious that most of those who commented had read nothing but the title. His most frequent reply was “It might help if you actually went and read the article.”
BRILLIANT!!
Well, I can only speak for myself, Jeremy — I read the full post; and I find a lot of problems with your exegesis.
I agree with tovlogos. Of course we read theology!
I feel like this post is a slam against people who disagree with your posts, Jeremy.
We probably read more theology than you do.
I read theology every day.
But I have a “theology study group” where we read theology books and get together to discuss them once a week. It’s like a book club, but with theology books.
So yeah, I think that lots of Christians don’t read much theology, but life is so much richer by reading it.
i’ve been reading your blog since you did your calvinism series, and i have been getting more and more upset at your approach to the judgment of God on sinners, gay marriage and the BIble. thepeople who read your blog probably dont read theology and that’s why you think they dont. if more people read theology they wouldn’t be swept up by your heresey. I read theology every day, people like piper, Boice, MacArthur, and Spruol. But this is why i don’t get swept up by your false teaching. I only read you now so I can watch your slide and warn others.
Oh, how we have so much trouble discerning “message” from “messenger!” (we have trouble seeing that the Gospel WASN’T ‘Jesus is over here or over there,’ but rather ‘that Our Father welcomes us to turn back to him & -away from the ways of destruction!’)
As I might say at my “website,” Christians don’t read theology because … the psalmist doesn’t say ‘The Lord is my Shepherd, in him I shall not miscalculate the size of his dominion.’
I am a pastor and while I still read theology, many of the people in my church do not. They just don’t have the time.
I personally love to read. I was amused at one of the comments above as to the theology in which they invested their time. It seems to me that if we are ever to grow, we must educate ourselves with more than just those theologians with whom we agree.
I saw the post to which you referred and yes, most did not read the article, just the title.
It’s possible that so few people read ‘whole posts’ (especially those with questions in the title) because so-often they’ve rehd posts like this one—which DON’T answer the question (or don’t answer it summarily enough for them to understand).
That, and a lot of ‘faith-related questions’ have answers that are only “true” if either you didn’t know the answer before or the answer given is the same as the answer you already have.
Those, and ( :-)) ) ‘faith’ (“the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” Heb. 11:1) exists in a “Schroedinger’s Cat”-way—‘Schroedinger’s Cat’ is a cat in a box with a radioactive substance that may or may not kill it, making the cat both dead AND alive until you look inside to see which. When you see the evidence, it STOPS existing ‘by faith’; when you feel the substance, you STOP hoping for it.
Studying theology thus makes you run the risk of ‘having to be responsible for God.’ And Christians would much rather let God be responsible for God (and for ‘the things that God can do’). Disagreeing with Kenneth Copeland’s theology got me kicked-out-of the KCM Community (online).