Hacksaw Jim Duggin and Theological Overdosing

When I was a boy I enjoyed watching wrestling...not the real kind, but the fun kind. One guy a remember was Hacksaw Jim Duggin. He was an American flag waving redneck who carried around a 2x4. When given the opportunity he would whack some guys in the face with his 2x4. It was awesome!

Last night I was reading a blog of a guy who seems to take pride in criticizing the theological positions of some of my heroes. He enjoys the arrogance of strutting his theological intellectualism by attacking openly those who oppose him. He recently wrote a blog discussing what he feels is the importance of taking a dogmatic stance on whether or not you are a Calvinist or an Arminian, a Cessationist or a Non-Cessationist, an adherent to Covenant theology or Dispensational theology, premillennialist, Amillennialist, or Post-millennialist and blah blah blah. He said the importance of doing this is worship. When we truly "know" God we can then truly "worship" Him, was his position. I wonder how he would apply his reasoning to the young 9 year old girl in our church who lost her mother to suicide just a few months ago, and her father in a car accident just a few days ago. Would he tell her that if she just knew where she stood on these doctrines then she could worship God and move forward? What about the countless men and women who are struggling with various addictions? How about the unchurched peering in trying to connect with God? He has so overdosed on theology that he has lost touch with reality. Furthermore, and more importantly, he has lost perspective on the biblical mandate to preach the gospel. This is the condition of so many. These guys need their stomach pumped with a fresh dose of reality, but most often they just die of an overdose and never see the hand of God work on their ministries because they have so packaged God into their theological box of "knowing Him" that they do not even know Him at all. They forget that He is bigger than their theological constructs and have managed to construct their own god with their own hands.

His ways are emphatically above our ways, we can only know of Him what He has revealed, and if we just stop for a moment and realize that our finite minds can only comprehend but a tiny fraction of who He is. To make claims that they have figured God out is to try and bridle God like they would bridle a horse. Then throwing a saddle on Him and riding upon their theological high horse trying to control Him....soon enough He will spit out their bridal and buck them off....

My first thought, though openly not very spiritual, is I would just like to be there the day He bucks them off so that when they get back up I could whack them in the face with a 2x4, Hacksaw Jim Duggin style.