--- Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
As a recovering Assemblies of God/700 Club member/Young Republican, that sounds rather paternal; so everybody else are sheep?
Im sorry -- I wish you well on your recovery :) The way I would answer that is this -- "shepherdship" doesnt imply that people are lemmings...
Sheep allow people to lead them because theyre domesticable -- domesticability -- as one of its criteria -- requires a supplantable heirarchy. Its a relationship -- not a blind sort of groupthink.
To deal with the idea on more "scriptural" grounds -- as an analogy the passage where God gives man "dominion over the beasts in the land birds in the air fish in the sea" --- "Dominion" sounds kina like domination -- in fact what it means is shepherdship --
There are good shepherds and bad ones... Generally we aspire to be gooder ones. :) "Guardianship" in that passage might be a better word, perhaps. But "guardian" loses its teaching aspect.
-S- Respectfully -S-
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