Who Said That?
Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 11:48AM 
"This belief and endeavor is the key to unity and the
constructive interaction among nations, countries, the people of the world and
all the true justice-seekers. Without any doubt, the Promised One who is the ultimate
Savior, together with Jesus Christ and other holy Saviors, will come. In the
company of all believers, justice-seekers and benefactors, he will establish a
bright future and fill the world with justice and beauty. This is the promise of God; therefore it will be fulfilled. Let's play a part in the fulfillment of all this glory and
beauty. I wish for a bright future for all human beings and the dawn
of the liberation of and freedom for all humans, and the rule of love and
affection all around the world, as well as the elimination of oppression, hatred
and violence. A wish which I expect will be realized in the near future."
Please leave your guess in the comments section below. Please no cheating or google searches!
Kim Riddlebarger
As many of you correctly guessed, this is an excerpt from Ahmadinejad's recent speech before the UN.Click here: Full text of President Ahmadinejad's address before UNGA
Reader Comments (27)
He believes in an end-time scenario, Jesus Christ as an enlightened being of some kind, and he stresses (bizarrely) justice.
It takes differing metaphysical views and spiritualizes them with flowery languange and non-sense and then wraps it into a politcal agenda. It is the spirit of the times and a lot of the Arminian, revivalist and dispensational Churches are buying into it because of the theological confusion which runs rampant in the culture and the Church. Even though some of these Churches resist new-age thinking but do so in an unconvincing way.
Talk of a Promised One means it is either from some Jewish philosopher or theologian or I have heard some new age philospers talk of a promised metaphysician who will unify humanity with a philosophy similiar to a Plotinus like monistic One. Some of the aggressive new atheists will accept this type of spirituality but continue to lamblast Christianity. Like I have said before, only reformational theology with a logically sound and rational apologetic can refute this non-sense. But, who will listen when our minds are saturated and bombarded by this stuff and many still give credence to what they say. We need to quite listening to them and start fighting them. There are a couple quotes that I came across recently that are appropriate here. One is from Martin Luther and the other from B.B. Warfield. I am running out of time here- I have to get to work. Perhaps I will post them later.
As far as a guess goes- it could be a number of different people which we hear on Oprah. How about this- it is the Anti-Christ spirit whispering into the ears of those who know not how to resist it.
Doesn't sound Muslim. Ba'hai, perhaps.
Whoever believes that Lutheranism is Christianity lite knows not what he is talking about. This is probably one of the most challenging quotes I have ever read. One that should motivate us to dig into the best thinking in the culture and the Church and then learn how to analyze it theologically within the Church traditions we have chosen to attend.
Now the Warfield quote which I found in Dr. Kim's phd thesis on B.B. Warfield: "But we are arguing that Apologetics has its part to play in the Christianizing of the world: and that this part is not a small part: nor is it merely a subsidiary or defensive part- as if its one end were to protect an isolated body of Christians from annoyance from the surrounding world. It has a primary part to play and a conquering part............In the face of the world, with its opposing points of view and its tremendous energy of thought and incredible fertility in attack and defense, Christianity must think through and organize itself, not defense merely, but assault. It has been placed in the world to reason its way to the dominion of the world. And by reasoning it will gather to itself all its own. And by reasoning it will put its enemies under its feet."
Needless to say, this quote by Warfield generated much controversy about the role of reason in biblical faith. I think Dr. Kim's paper deals with this issue quite ably and convincingly in Warfield's defense.
I also liked that Earl Woods remark- that made me laugh out loud too. From what I know of Tiger Woods he is not an arrogant jerk though. I was once at a local watering hole that I go to frequently to watch the Bears, Bulls, White Sox and Cubs games and I sat by a guy who who was on the PGA tour but barely making it and he had Tiger Woods Cell phone number on his cell phone. Tiger makes himself accessible to all these guys and this guy was telling me how he is well liked by most of the golfers on tour. Of course, there is some jealousy and resentment among others but for the most part, from what this guy said he is well respected. I just wanted to add that little caveat. It does seem that Tiger is almost Messiah like according to ESPN etc. Kind of like many are making Obama out to be.