Romans 8:26-27 --
"Help in our Weakness"
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"Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to." -- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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Posted by John H at 10:53 PM 9 comments
Labels: Bible Study, Holy Spirit, prayer
Each side in the parental notification issue has their "poster children" for why parental notification laws should, or should not, be passed. On the "should" side are the instances where boyfriends and statutory rapists talk and/or coerce their pregnant underage girlfriends into abortions without their parent's knowledge - in one prominantly quoted case leading to the death of the girl from complications of the abortion because the parents did not know that a surgery had been performed.
On the "should not" side you are advised to go read "Abortion and parental notification laws" and the two posts (here and here) the author links written by someone who works within the justice system processing judicial exception requests to parental notification laws.
However, I really am not interested - at least in this post - about the "poster children" . . .
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Labels: Abortion, conscience, Enlightenment, Moral agency, Moral reasoning, Philosophy
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Labels: Bible Study, faith
There were a couple of diaries at Street Prophets reflecting on some of the political and social aspects of two strategy/war games -- Chess and Go: "Metaphor and The Game of Go . . ."
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Labels: community, Enlightenment, individualism, Philosophy, Political action
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Labels: Bible Study, depravity, evil/pain, slavery
Go read the excellant posts linked at RodneyOlsen.net. Jeremy Pierce's standard blurb about the Carnival:
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A style that I seemed to have settled into is that whenever I have a brief hiatus from blogging (or do not have much to say) I tend to start up again with posts that tour blogs I am interested in.
I had a mini-hiatus and I filled up my Google Reader with literally hundreds of posts that I had not read through. In a smaller group, I had some "starred items" that I had marked with the intent to perhaps blog on myself.
I went through and cleaned out my Reader on Sunday, and thought that I might highlight some posts that I think are interesting - with a strong emphasis on some series and/or topics that I found attractive but have not written on:
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Labels: Link Tours
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Labels: Bible Study, evil/pain
Not having spent a lot of time studying theology - I am at home with the exposition of scripture. As someone who could be close to being a "Biblicist", I certainly have not had much use for concepts of God divorced from the clear teaching of scripture.
In a discussion over at Vox Populi there was a running debate (well, not really a debate) in the comment thread about whether God feels emotion. The person holding forth the position that God did not feel anger, or joy, or any other emotion related it to the theological positions of Aquinas and others. Most of the comments by "Benyachov" were fairly rude and arrogant - but the main point seemed to be that to believe that God has emotion is an unwarranted characature of God:
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Labels: God's nature
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Labels: Bible Study, evil/pain, faith, Fear, Holy Spirit, justification, slavery
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Labels: Bible Study, Holy Spirit, Sanctification, sin
A woman online who is a non-Christian Unitarian Universalist was peeved by a follower of Christ who:
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Labels: God's nature
And all through this house - we are having a hard time getting into the Christmas Spirit (even the mouse). I have noticed a number of folks both in the blogosphere, and in real life, seem to be experiencing this.
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Labels: Christian Carnivals, video
One of those common misconceptions that I run into is expressed in this comment.
And here we differ because I cannot believe in a loving God who created me with a long size ten foot only so that he can break the arch and bind it into a child's size four.At this moment, I am not sure what exactly what was being commented on. And, frankly, I am not sure its important - this post is about what it provoked in me and not about what it was meant to convey. So, lets look at a couple of things I have posted on in the past:
That is no God of love. It is no deity I can fuel with worship any more than I would willingly feed someone who raped me.
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Labels: accountability, depravity, Enlightenment, individualism, Moral agency, Moral reasoning
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