Archive for June, 2009
Homophobia
Monday, June 29th, 2009Reprobate Mind
Monday, June 15th, 2009Beginning Thought:
Political correctness is not one of my strong behaviors, especially not in this venue. This leads me to say things, here, that would be offensive to others if they were said openly in public. Fortunately for the public, I rarely speak to it openly. However, since you’re here; let’s talk.
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There is some noise in the world that indicates that there is some kind of change that needs to be made to the rigidity of the Gospel, and of the Law of God. These changes are somewhat offensive to me. It is not that I have a desire to restrict mankind from sinning; that is, after all, one of the features of being human).
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Closing Thought:
If these allowances by mankind continue; in time, not even our children will be safe from predators. In time, the laws will protect the rights of individual to prey upon those who are defenseless to fight back. One crack in the dam is not a thing to just be ignored. As does water, so too does the lure toward the reprobate mind; once the restraining dam of spiritual devotion is cracked, the pressure to allow more water to seep out will be satisfied, if there is no intervention to repair the crack.
It is required that you activate your dedication to personal responsibility; group psychosis is not a part of being in the righteous will of God. For sure; personal accountability is already active, and the associated consequential recompenses are fully operational, and somewhat automatic. So for those who are beset by the reprobate mind, as well as for those who are under pressure to submit to it; to help you start toward the repair of that crack, I offer the following Scripture, in the Spirit of truth.
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Heaven
Monday, June 8th, 2009HEAVEN
as an image flowing through the Bible
according to the design of the LORD God
(with a few personal comments)
A place of last resort
There wasn’t much conversation about heaven in the Old Testament. There was, of course, the understanding that man once had access to the Garden of Eden. This was a matter of the understanding of God’s perfect Creation; that at one point, mankind too was perfect. This is the initial state of all infant creatures, such as was mankind at its beginning. In the Genesis window to our history, we were given a bit of understanding about where mankind had been; but it was also understood that there would probably be no immediate returning there. God had made a certain arrangement that would prevent us from entering the Garden, even if we were ever able to find it. Don’t think of it as a penalty; instead, think of it as a prod to keep mankind moving along the circle of reality; a prod that would, one day, loop back to the perfect state.