Theological Implications Of Mirror-Reading
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It's impossible to be completely neutral when it comes to theology, but I attempt, on this site, to be as theologically neutral as possible. Mirror-reading focuses on the text and is more about exegesis than theology. Certainly theology can be derived from mirror-reading, but I hope that by focusing on the text, I'll avoid unnecessary conflict or alienation of those who hold particular theological views. I realize that this may be naive or even disillusion. It may draw sub-par web traffic. Regardless, I'll do what I can to stick to mirror-reading without peddling theological views.
However, one of my frustrations is that sometimes I'll share a mirror-reading insight with someone, they'll agree with it and then will turn around and espouse a theological view that contradicts it. I've been encouraged by others to share the theological implications of my mirror-readings, simply because they want to know, but for now, I'm go to try to avoid it.
Another reason why I don't like to draw theological lines in the sand with mirror-reading is because I can only draw a conclusion from the parts of Scripture that I feel I've mirror-read thoroughly. I may conclude that one verse does not support a theological view, but what about the half-dozen other verses that support it? I haven't mirror-read all of those yet, and so I'm reluctantly to take a hard stand on minor issues.
If you really must know some of my theological views, you can check out some of my views on the RE2 podcast.