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I continue with my conservative and frugal 'big spending' ways in regard to late night, early morning entrainment while exercising, and I have a short satirical review of this satirical film and DVD as a result...
When I state there are 'contradictions'/supposed contradictions in light of supposed reasons for many to hold to agnosticism in Western society, I am acknowledging, Biblical difficulties. I hold to Biblical inerrancy in the original documents/autographs, not the thousands of copies which adequately and reasonably present God's word without theological changes to primary doctrines and dogma. Biblical difficulties can arise from the various Greek manuscripts (Hebrew Bible manuscripts late add), copying errors from scribes and different translations. I do not reason there is error is the transmission from God, the Holy Spirit to Biblical authors.
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Sometimes I think people are burning bridges, when they should be learning more about construction...
ReplyDeleteMy newest Facebook 'friend' (her request) has the I have seen it a 'hundred' times, I am an orphan story, and she even threw in her Granny was sick.
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This particular one's MO is huge modified chest. She has a mutual friend.
I will not delete someone unless they are very bad as I view my pages as witnessing tools.
And, I do not accept questionable moral people as Facebook friends at the expense of Godly ones, which is a complaint I have with some women on Facebook.
This one up'd her age four years once we chatted and I told her my age when she asked, and she wanted to know if I was single (repeated ploy). There was also the ploy of trying to get me to chat on Yahoo, which I no longer use.
And I will save Skype for legits,
A French young lady tried the orphan and stranded in Africa baloney a few months ago, but she forgot to take down the photos of her partying with what looked like a BF, before she asked me for money.
Boring and dumb.
But I did not defriend. Time will tell.
There are 1400 employees at work, if I go that route. Plus two megachurches, I don't need phonies.
Celebrate First
ReplyDeleteSee how that Lord's Prayer unfolds. It's surprising how far along it goes until it gets to our asking for what we need, daily bread and whatever. Having our needs met is what pushes us to prayer so it's where we start, but this one is different. It's startling that we don't ask to be kept from temptation till even later. Isn't our usual pattern, in evangelistic meetings especially, that we first see our sin and then move on to God's grace? Monday to Wednesday, holiness of God and hell-deserving sin, Thursday on, how to be saved? Then we praise God for what he's done by dealing with our sin. But in this prayer we start with worship, with hallowing his name, just after we call him Father, with the boldness that goes with that. We get right into hallowing. I imagine we're including angels and archangels too, so that they would do their worshipping better? But we must be asking that for ourselves too, don't you think?
In Romans we first saw that we were wretched and then went on to claim the love of God, but doesn't this go in the opposite direction? I'm looking at Psalm 40 now. It’s like this prayer. After thanking the Lord for so much goodness to him, then David summarizes in verses 8-10, I desire to do your will, O my God, your law is within my heart. I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; I do not seal my lips, as you know O Lord. I do not hide your righteousness in my heart, I speak of your faithfulness and salvation. I do not conceal your love and your truth from the great assembly. That's something like, I want to serve you Lord in every way, especially I let everyone know of your love and your truth.
That is a kind of culmination—but after that comes: my sins have overtaken me and I cannot see, they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails within me. . . Yet I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my help and my deliverer; O my God, do not delay. I can't see ahead, my heart fails within me, I am poor and needy—what do you think, can someone who knows and proclaims the greatness of the Lord's salvation really talk that way?
ReplyDeleteWhat could that mean? I think it goes like this, the more I know of you my Lord, and of your amazing love and salvation, the clearer I can see myself and my own sin and need. That makes so much sense, doesn't it? As I know my sin, I am driven to Jesus Christ, but the more I know him, the more I see how much I need him. The size of his salvation knows me the size of my need for him. Who my Lord Jesus is becomes very clear to me, and along with that I know how much I need him right now.
ReplyDeleteAs far back as the Reformation there have always been those who saw an emphasis upon the Lord's surpassing grace as highly dangerous, bound to produce hazy indifference as people get high on mystical feelings. I suppose that can happen, but not if we understand God's word.
ReplyDeleteI knew Jack Miller and I loved him. The more he spoke of the amazing grace of the gospel, the more he prayed that the Lord would show him his sin. He told us to do the same, that it was the prayer that God answered right away.
Think of Nehemiah too. Now that they're back in the land and safe and sound, they come together to hear God's law, and they sob over their foolish sin. But God tells them, stop crying and start celebrating, eat up and drink up, because the joy of the Lord is your strength. I can't tell just what they're going to need all that strength for—but right away they begin massive and deep repentance. So I wonder: could it be that the joy the Lord gives us is the strength we need for our repentance and godly living? It wasn’t accidental that Jesus was raised from the dead on the first day of the week, so that's how we begin our weeks now by first celebrating that massive change in the world and in our lives. Get together on Sunday for the great banquet with the Lord and his Supper? Then you're set to battle world, flesh and Devil all week?
ReplyDeleteWhen I think of how crippled my social life is, how I'm always on the fringe of the group I'm in, I collapse into self-pity too easily—but what if I just asked the Lord to help me encourage people by knowing what to say? What if I prayed that way, out of joy in who the Lord really is, wouldn't he give me good words to say and even openings when I could say them? I'm embarrassed to tell you how big that is in my weird life, but it is. But the best is, it's really true: when I call upon the Lord to bring his love into that conversation, he does, sometimes by me, but it's not important how, I finally can see that.
ReplyDeleteI bring that up, because that flows right out of my celebrating the joy the Lord gives me, in who he is and what he does for me now. I am repenting of self-pity better than ever before, by leaning on the everlasting arms all the time—because I celebrate that his arms are really there and will be forever. Out of joy in Jesus the Christ I am repenting. That doesn't sound so strange anymore, now does it? Yes, the Lord pushes us into rejoicing in his grace my showing us that all other of our self-help options are just total flops—but then we go on to live the rest of our lives trusting in what we just learned. Needy sinners come to trust Jesus, and trusting believers who are still needy just keep on trusting him.
ReplyDeleteMartin Luther said that he had to keep preaching the gospel to himself because he kept forgetting it. Know anyone like that?
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'Martin Luther said that he had to keep preaching the gospel to himself because he kept forgetting it. Know anyone like that?"
ReplyDeleteI don't think I necessarily forget the Gospel, but I do find some evangelical answers in regard to the problems of evil and suffering over-simplistic and over-spiritualized.
As God is sovereign, infinite and first cause, when there is suffering, God has willed it.
Yes, pray and work toward an end of suffering, but don't primarily blame secondary causes such demons, when God is in control and when the person is truly seeking to repent, if needed, and turn the situation around.
I do acknowledge tracks of sin, as the late Dr. Radmacher taught.
God's motives remain pure, while secondary sources, other than angels that have stayed loyal, will not be pure (finite). Satanic forces wicked. The human nature and will, fallen.
I have a friend that is blaming Satan for his struggles and then he denies it when I state everything is willed by God and that his (mine) sin nature is likely a bigger problem than Satanic beings.
I acknowledge Satanic beings involved in the Christian life (Acts, for example), but if the Christian with a limited free will attempts to make right with God, surviving suffering may be God's permissible will, or even perfect will in this fallen realm.
As far as calls to be at peace and have joy from the New Testament, if one is miserable, that should be sought. I seek it, but it is still up to God.
It does not guarantee 'deliverance'. So many get this wrong. They claim to have it, sort of, but they always admit to still messing up.
I fully hold to the New Testament being dogmatic on certain core theology. But as well, some of
inerrant Scripture contains what I view as generalisms.
For example, 1 Cor. 7, if one burns, one should marry. Black and white, God will provide a wife if one seeks and asks.
No...
What if the person seeking is mentally limited, or has a metal anger problem and will never be fit for marriage?
And, let us not be unrealistic as are some evangelicals and assume God would never do that!
What if the good candidate dies, single at a younger age.
The passage is inspired truth, and a generalism.
The doctrines and morality of the Bible are absolute spiritually and so it cannot be reinterpreted to fit present secular waves. For example, homosexuality as sin, is not a generalism, nor is any other sexual sin.
If two Christians of the opposite sex were placed into outer space on a craft with no hope of return to earth, they would need to if there is romantic love to prayerfully marry in Christ when the time was right, even without a Reverend. To prevent, fornication.
Here's something I came across on Facebook that you may find amusing:
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Ah, memories, Chuck...
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.- Woodrow Wilson
ReplyDeleteI have found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. - Abraham Lincoln
ReplyDeleteWhen I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad; that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln
ReplyDeleteThe best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. - Abraham Lincoln
ReplyDeleteDon't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. - Abraham Lincoln
ReplyDeleteI don't like that man. I need to get to know him better. - Abraham Lincoln
ReplyDeleteChuck, I posted your link on Facebook...
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