A Finnish reader of EOP has started an anonymous blog “Diary of a Treasure Seeker” to highlight and discuss particular parts of the book. Google translate seems to do a fair job of conveying what’s being said there. aarteenetsija.blogspot.fi/ It’s an honor to have one’s writing given such thoughtful consideration. I’m glad that the blog author noted the point I was trying to make by introducing the book with a description of the Iglesia ni Cristo sect of Christianity in the Philippines: “Why should my salvation depend on them, a group I have never heard of (except for now, when I opened this book)?” Why indeed. And why should the Filipinos who come across EOP during Internet searches for their group’s name (there are a few, from time to time) be the least bit concerned about this other unknown group with some members in Finland and a handful of congregations scattered across North American and West Africa? How would you begin to explain to THEM that this bunch of Finns, Finnish descendants, and a smidgen of converts is really the One True Church, and they, the Filipino seekers after truth, are going to fry in hell forever if they don’t call the LLC or SRK offices and figure out this business of “forgiveness of sins, many of which are not described in the Bible or even church publications, by the right magic incantation pronounced by the right kind of Laestadian”?
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 05:36:28 +0000