Some fences are not for sitting |
Naturally a reader engages him on this.
“God is interested in our willing participation in his plan for our lives, not in micro-managing helpless automatons.” — Tom
Some fences are not for sitting |
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These could probably go anytime too ... |
Benjamin West, The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise |
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A worthy successor to Queen Elizabeth? |
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“The most obvious reasons are that, being omniscient, both the Father and the Lord Jesus are well aware when men and women have receptive hearts and when they don’t, and they tend not to entrust valuable truth to those who care nothing about it.”
With regard to the above point, I have not yet seen you deal with the argument below (maybe I missed it) which is a typical, but fairly valid, response to the above from the Ag[nostic]/Atheist crowd. I think IC may have dealt with it in a different forum but I forgot.”
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Has to be squash in here somewhere ... |
Cry of the Prophet Jeremiah, Ilya Repin, 1870 |
Is waving our arms absolutely necessary? |
The joy of the Lord is not just a fireworks display |
Okay, this one may be a little elaborate ... |
We are coming up on a year of posting daily, so I thought it might be time to revisit our very first post ever, courtesy of the enigmatic and seldom-seen Bernie, who really started the ball rolling. — Tom
We are likely all familiar with the preparations involved for a visiting dignitary: the airport at which he will arrive is closed off to other traffic, the roads his motorcade must travel are cleared, a security perimeter is established and so forth. This has been society’s behavior for time immemorial — when someone important arrives, everything else is managed to ensure that the VIP can keep to their schedule in a way that is most comfortable and safe for them.
“Hmm. How to proceed ...” |
“Nothing happening here. You can move along any time now ...” |
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Raphael: St Paul Before the Proconsul, 1515 |
Yours truly engages in administrating — not. |
Or is it “The Democratic Party is my god”? |
What tipped the scales for you? |
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“It is fair to ask the question: ‘How will my life be better if I understand the Bible better?’ ”
Care to try on one of these? |
How on earth did I get started on this subject?
Trying to deal with arguments for the acceptance of Christian same-sex relationships — and let’s be realistic: everyone I’ve read on the subject actively promotes full LGBT “equality” in the church, not merely the homosexualist agenda — is like trying to grasp a handful of jello. The proffered reasons for acceptance constantly change shape and direction. One could be forgiven for speculating that many such positions are actually Trojan horses: they present as reasonable concessions that mask the true intentions (and possibly even the true identities) of those who advance them.
Such tactics are typical of social progressives but one might hope (perhaps foolishly) to find professing Christians agreeable to recognizing a set of common principles to be employed in debate, if not always completely transparent about the goals they have in mind for church “reform”.
“88% of Christian children deny their faith by graduation day.”That’s one of the sensational claims made in IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America, a three year-old movie about the evils of the public school system that, I must admit, I have not seen in its entirety. This trailer was used to promote it:
“Some think that these extended timescales prove that there is no conspiracy and ‘progress’ is a mere accident of history because no human lifespan is long enough to encompass the strategy or the consequences. The logic is correct, but then, logic also suggests an alternative, which is that there is something, or someone, that exists on a larger timescale and is capable of guiding events of these temporal proportions.
So, the question comes down to this: given what we can observe with the limited means at our disposal, which do you find more unlikely? A coin almost always flipping tails at random or some sort of unknown, long-lived being imposing its will on the coin toss?”
An electrical shabbat lamp. Should every Christian have one of these? |
Illustration from Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us, Charles Foster, 1897 |
“This is a Christian country. I go to a Christian church. I believe in God and the Bible, so what right have you to judge me and tell me I’m not a Christian?”
“They shouldn’t expect the taxpayers to fund their hate-filled, Gestapo-like actions to openly attempt to shut down the free exercise of religion and their attempt to establish a religion of godless secularism.”