Monday, January 30, 2006
Relevant texts
Acts 4.19
But Peter and John replied, "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God, you must decide.
Galatians 1:10
Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Lawlessness -- Its your own fault
lawlessness
The antichrist is the lawless one it says in the Bible.
If they substitute llamas for people then normal people should take charge of the stupidly - behaving people.
Also will have to form a society WITHOUT the stupid people
Also should not even bother to interact within STUPID peoples society and false rules
because it just makes it grow
If people, for example, should make a rule that you have to rub their privates before you interact with them.
Just find less stupid to interact with, ie People who think that kind of behavior is disgusting.
THere is no reason to accept a broken misshapen society.
Ignore what you lose and find other normals.
They did it in the wild west ALL THE TIME
People who continue to enable this awful situation are stupid and become even more so as time passes.
The antichrist is the lawless one it says in the Bible.
If they substitute llamas for people then normal people should take charge of the stupidly - behaving people.
Also will have to form a society WITHOUT the stupid people
Also should not even bother to interact within STUPID peoples society and false rules
because it just makes it grow
If people, for example, should make a rule that you have to rub their privates before you interact with them.
Just find less stupid to interact with, ie People who think that kind of behavior is disgusting.
THere is no reason to accept a broken misshapen society.
Ignore what you lose and find other normals.
They did it in the wild west ALL THE TIME
People who continue to enable this awful situation are stupid and become even more so as time passes.
Friday, January 20, 2006
The flawed earth
How sad the human animal outruns its own maturity increasing in knowledge before controlling its passion and ego.
It is like the tragic flaw of a youthful hero, the earth decaying before it could blossom.
It is like the tragic flaw of a youthful hero, the earth decaying before it could blossom.
I invented the cup, yesterday! SERiously.
It is an obnoxious error for any modern culture to claim ownership of cultural knowledge.
All Modern cultures (and also American culture) borrowed much their culture from the rest of the world and usually upgraded the materials from which these things were made. (cups, doors, curtains, beds)
Suddenly all culture is Euro-based. Actually it is only that the European culture is newest. Technological advances aside (from 1900 on) there is little ownership only contribution.
In the same way all European and World culture is mine and will be enhanced by what I add to it.
Familial and spiritual knowledge is another matter.
ALSO, In 4000 BC the 10 million people on earth created inventions in proportion to their numbers. Today with 6 billion there has to be a proportional increase in the frequency of creative ideas.
All Modern cultures (and also American culture) borrowed much their culture from the rest of the world and usually upgraded the materials from which these things were made. (cups, doors, curtains, beds)
Suddenly all culture is Euro-based. Actually it is only that the European culture is newest. Technological advances aside (from 1900 on) there is little ownership only contribution.
In the same way all European and World culture is mine and will be enhanced by what I add to it.
Familial and spiritual knowledge is another matter.
ALSO, In 4000 BC the 10 million people on earth created inventions in proportion to their numbers. Today with 6 billion there has to be a proportional increase in the frequency of creative ideas.
Wandering Prophets
Apparently human beings, when they try to maintain any kind of standard, become insufferable boobs.
Any kind of comparison any kind of avoidance ends in pride and eventually violence because each one of us tries to have good standards but they always require pride to maintain.
Christianity only allows us to maintain the standard of avoiding those who reject God.
Can any standard be upheld without pride?
We become meaningless in society without maintaining our standing.
Are we all to be wandering prophets?
Any kind of comparison any kind of avoidance ends in pride and eventually violence because each one of us tries to have good standards but they always require pride to maintain.
Christianity only allows us to maintain the standard of avoiding those who reject God.
Can any standard be upheld without pride?
We become meaningless in society without maintaining our standing.
Are we all to be wandering prophets?
Monday, January 16, 2006
Stop harassing me
Jesus called them together and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.
Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,
and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Matt 20.25-28
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,
and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Matt 20.25-28
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
2 Corinthians 6:14
The weak of heart
People who limit their recognition of beauty may as well not understand beauty at all because it is not beauty that they love, but the approval of others.
What caused this anger and grief? It was their hardness of heart.
This is an excerpt from a sermon by Spurgeon.
What was their exact fault?
First, they would not see, though the case was clear. He had set the truth so plainly before them that they were obliged to strain their understandings to avoid being convinced: they had to draw down the blinds of the soul, and put up the shutters of the mind, to be able not to see. There are none so blind as those that will not see, and these were of that blindest order; they were blind people that had eyes and boasted that they could see, and therefore their sin was utterly without excuse. Ah, me! I fear that we have many around us still, who know, but do not act on their knowledge; who do not wish to be convinced and converted, but harden themselves against known duty and plain right.
What was more, what these people were forced to see they would not acknowledge. They sullenly held their tongues when they were bound to speak. Does it not happen to many persons that the gospel forces itself upon their belief? They feel that they could not conjure up an argument against the divine truth which is set before them: the word comes with such demonstration that it smites them with sledge-hammer force; but they do not intend to admit its power, and so they brace themselves up to bear the blow without yielding. They shut their months against the water of life which is held up to them in the golden cup of the gospel. No child could shut his teeth more desperately against medicine than they against the gospel. Any man may take a horse to the water, but ten thousand cannot make him drink, and this is proved in many a hearer of the word. There sat these Scribes and Pharisees: it is a wonder that the stones did not cry out against them, they were so doggedly determined not to admit that which they could not deny. Are there none of that breed among us still?
More than that, while they would not see what was so plain, they were diligently seeking to spy out flaws and faults where there were none, namely, in the Lord Jesus. So there are many who profess that they cannot understand the gospel, but they have understanding enough to cavil at it, and cast slurs upon it. They have a cruelly keen eye for non-existent errors in Scripture: they find this mistake in Deuteronomy, and the other in Genesis. What great wisdom, to be diligent in making discoveries against one's own eternal interests! The gospel of the Lord Jesus is man's only hope of salvation: what a pity to count it the height of cleverness to destroy our only hope!
Spurgeon's Sermon "Jesus Angry with Hard Hearts"
Luke 16:31
"He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.' "
What was their exact fault?
First, they would not see, though the case was clear. He had set the truth so plainly before them that they were obliged to strain their understandings to avoid being convinced: they had to draw down the blinds of the soul, and put up the shutters of the mind, to be able not to see. There are none so blind as those that will not see, and these were of that blindest order; they were blind people that had eyes and boasted that they could see, and therefore their sin was utterly without excuse. Ah, me! I fear that we have many around us still, who know, but do not act on their knowledge; who do not wish to be convinced and converted, but harden themselves against known duty and plain right.
What was more, what these people were forced to see they would not acknowledge. They sullenly held their tongues when they were bound to speak. Does it not happen to many persons that the gospel forces itself upon their belief? They feel that they could not conjure up an argument against the divine truth which is set before them: the word comes with such demonstration that it smites them with sledge-hammer force; but they do not intend to admit its power, and so they brace themselves up to bear the blow without yielding. They shut their months against the water of life which is held up to them in the golden cup of the gospel. No child could shut his teeth more desperately against medicine than they against the gospel. Any man may take a horse to the water, but ten thousand cannot make him drink, and this is proved in many a hearer of the word. There sat these Scribes and Pharisees: it is a wonder that the stones did not cry out against them, they were so doggedly determined not to admit that which they could not deny. Are there none of that breed among us still?
More than that, while they would not see what was so plain, they were diligently seeking to spy out flaws and faults where there were none, namely, in the Lord Jesus. So there are many who profess that they cannot understand the gospel, but they have understanding enough to cavil at it, and cast slurs upon it. They have a cruelly keen eye for non-existent errors in Scripture: they find this mistake in Deuteronomy, and the other in Genesis. What great wisdom, to be diligent in making discoveries against one's own eternal interests! The gospel of the Lord Jesus is man's only hope of salvation: what a pity to count it the height of cleverness to destroy our only hope!
Spurgeon's Sermon "Jesus Angry with Hard Hearts"
Luke 16:31
"He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.' "
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