Thursday, July 28th, 2005 :: 9:22 PM

“…herein setting an example of charity, with reference to other men’s sin and shame.” (>>)

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005 :: 9:36 PM
Questions in Genesis

I finished reading through the prophets and am interested in reading more of the OT, so I started with Genesis tonight, which promptly led to a whole lot of questions. Here are some of them.

1: 6-8 — Is “expanse” refering to the sky, as the Message translates it? But, there isn’t water above the sky. What was the Jewish understanding of earth, space and heaven?

1: 26 — “Let Us make man in Our image…” How did the Jews understand this prior to Christ and the Holy Spirit and the development of the doctrine of the trinity? Is “our” an accurate translation or a trinitarian bias?

1: 29-30 — Interesting that God only gives plants/fruits as food to Adam and the animals, not animals as food for Adam and other animals. Is carnivorousness a result of the Fall? (I hope not, I like burgers…)

3: 3 — Obviously not a physical death, is it a spiritual one? Or, is it refering to the loss of immortality in :22? Which, by the way, God comes across sounding kind of insecure here. And how could Adam/Eve become like God just by learning about good and evil and being immortal; obviously there’s more than separates Creator and creation than that…

3: 12 — Adam’s kind of a pansy… It’s odd that God doesn’t comment on that but almost accepts the answer by then chastizing Eve without further comment to Adam.

4: 14 — When did other people (not Adam and Eve’s kids) get on the scene?

I get the feeling that this is more poetic wisdom than literal history. Thoughts/resources/burning stakes? A lot of my questions while reading the first four chapters had to deal with the cultural/chronological context, anyone know of any good resources for gaining a better understanding of that?

Monday, July 25th, 2005 :: 5:16 PM

“…I never thought I would find that person for whom I would work this hard or who would do the same for me in return. Thank you for working on this with me.” (>>)

“Please say honestly you won’t give up on me
and I shall believe” (>>)

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005 :: 3:09 PM

“God wants us back even more than we could possibly want to be back. We don’t have to go into great detail about our sorrow. All we have to do, the parable says, is appear on the scene, and before we get a chance to run away again, the Father grabs us and pulls us into the banquet so we can’t get away…” (>>)

Thursday, July 21st, 2005 :: 6:08 PM
This Song is Orgasmically Beautiful

“It’s clear you’ve got nothin’ to lose while I’m losing sleep.” (>>) [MP3] [more]

Thursday, July 21st, 2005 :: 12:31 AM

“I am never ashamed to avow myself a Calvinist, although I claim to be rather a Calvinist according to Calvin, than after the modern debased fashion; I do not hesitate to take the name of Baptist. You have there (pointing to the baptistery) substantial evidence that I am not ashamed of that ordinance of our Lord Jesus Christ; But if I am asked to say what is my creed, I think I must reply: ‘It is Jesus Christ.’ My venerable predecessor, Dr. Gill, has left a body of divinity admirable and excellent in its way; but the body of divinity to which I would pin and bind myself for ever, God helping me, is not his system of divinity or any other human treatise, but Christ Jesus, who is the sum and substance of the gospel; who is in himself all theology, the incarnation of every precious truth, the all-glorious personal embodiment of the way, the truth, and the life.” (>>)

Friday, July 15th, 2005 :: 12:15 AM

“During June 2005, CNN, FOXNews, NBC/MSNBC, ABC, and CBS ran 50 times as many stories about Michael Jackson and 12 times as many stories about Tom Cruise as they did about the genocide in Darfur.” (>>)

Thursday, July 14th, 2005 :: 6:26 PM

“You shouldn’t confuse being nice with being a tool.” (>>)

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005 :: 10:47 AM

“In that particular case a poor defendant (Sanji) living in an apartment above a bakery was enjoined in a civil suit by the Baker, who sought damages arising from the defendant’s habit of opening his apartment window every morning and taking in the aromas of the dark crusty bread, warm sweet rolls, and crunchy biscuits that wafted up from the bakery- without benefit or recompense to the plaintiff who toiled over the hot ovens to produce the smells. In his complaint the plaintiff argued in court that the defendant had been ‘stealing’ the smells, and sought damages for the ‘whiffing and sniffing.’

“The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff, but in the remedy phase of the trial issued a symbolic judgment where it was arranged that the plaintiff would hear the ‘clink clink’ sound of the defendant’s money as it dropped into a bowl, in lieu of an actual settlement.” (>>)

Saturday, July 9th, 2005 :: 12:00 PM

“It makes me feel important just knowing that right now the Baptists are doing demographic studies on how to get me in church!” (>>)

Saturday, July 9th, 2005 :: 11:40 AM

“…theology as it works itself out in the lives of human beings who are kind of scratching and clawing their way to try to follow Jesus on a daily basis. It’s a messy endeavor, and I embrace that messiness. ” (>>)

Thursday, July 7th, 2005 :: 6:46 PM

“This world is seriously f—– up. Not just America. Or Iraq. The whole f—— lot of it.” (>>)

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005 :: 4:20 PM

“Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all… ceasing to be ‘in love’ need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense- love as distinct from ‘being in love’- is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God.” (>>)

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