The Wood's Secret Garden

Have We Built Our Own Tribunals? Or Just a Louder Mistake By Ernest DeJure Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true. “Give us your keys,” they say, at the church door, “We’ll drive the mind that brought you to this floor.” Use your private mind to choose our holy sect, Then crush that very mind to keep our status checked. Use your judgment, seeker, to see that we are right, Then blow out your candle and trust our guided light. They curse the modern age, the lonely "me-and-God," And paint the individual as arrogant and flawed. They say the text belongs to the community's embrace, A corporate guardrail to keep you in your place. But ask them who decided which community is true, And the finger of the logic points right back to you. You must choose between the councils, the synods, and the popes, Weighing fallible tradi...