Monday Bullets: Sanctification
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• The World of Domes, Zoom meeting which I host most Saturday evenings @2130 PST, which is 9:30 pm Vancouver time.
• As can be seen from the photo, the meetings need more people with hair. The topics are not enforced by me as host, so although it is a related ministry to my website work, it is definitely and definitively, not the same type of media in Zoom form. Others involved are not theologians or philosophers of religion.
• If you are interested in joining in on a Saturday evening, my email is rnmred@gmail.com, or if you are clever and wish to surprise me with a friendly visit, by all means you are welcome. The Zoom link can be found on several articles on both of my related websites.
• I do not seek out debates, but I have been in a few lately. I am prayerfully trying to be Christ-like and fair. Below are some links...
• I promoted the last Zoom meeting, earlier that Saturday by stating from Gmail (edited): John The Rage told me the Zoom meetings were relaxing. Are we making progress?
• When my good friend with first and last names of famous horror movie characters, signed into the meeting, he satirically accused me of promoting 'fake news' as John the Rage did not attend the meeting.
• John the Rage lives in Calgary and I do not schedule his appointments. I am not his secretary (or replace with other more politically correct term, remember this is a satire website).
• Writing in regards to another well-meaning, good friend...In his comments on a potential romantic relationship, my friendly neighbour Walter Thomas Franklin in our car rides, keeps trying to tell me, for months or more, that (typically implied) single, 20-30 something year old women are immature and that (typically implied) single, middle-aged woman are more mature.
• Philosophically (I have told him this to his face, several times, to be clear, this is not gossip), this strikes me as half-truth. Single, middle-aged women are generally more experienced. Single, middle-aged women, to be blunt and not wanting to be offensive whatsoever, generally have less romantic options as compared to single, young adult women.
• As opposed to more mature, I would more so state that typically single, middle-aged have been more humbled, due to the their status within our modern western market value dating system, which in general I do not intellectually support. For example, she generally, faces more negatives because of her higher age, because she is less likely to have the ability to procreate and because she is more likely to have children from another partner (s).
• Theologically, I reason that for a regenerated (John 3, Titus 3) Christian believer, sanctification, being made holy through the applied atoning and resurrection work of Jesus Christ, primarily determines spiritual maturity, and is vastly more important overall in romantic relationships, than romantic experience or romantic maturity.
• A single, middle-aged woman, may or may not, be more, significantly, sanctified, and a more mature Christian than a single, young adult woman.
• My interest in someone potentially in significant, mutual attraction, should be more about her sanctification and holiness, than her age. I would also prefer to have the option of fatherhood, our own children, but I need to be flexible on this point, granted.
• But ageism, for one, complicates the matter as market value dating strongly promotes a close sameness in age between partners. It is assumed this type of sameness = compatibility to significant extents in western society.
• John 17:17 English Standard Version ESV: Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
• Theology and philosophy of religion can indeed have practical life uses.
• My same friendly neighbour states I just need someone my age to cuddle with. No, that is not a romantic relationship. I can cuddle with a cat or dog, for example. (See 1 Corinthians 7, 2 Corinthians 6).
