Musings

Quotes to chew on...

Tucked away within the assertion that the world is filled with pointless evil is a hidden premise, namely, that if evil appears pointless to me, then it must be pointless.

The new rebel is a skeptic, and will not trust anything.. therefore he can never be really a revolutionary. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind.. Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all puposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything... There is a thought that stops though. That is the only thought tha ougt to be stopped.

the racial diversity of the church is an important witness to teh truth of the Christian message - eph 2

Freedome cannot be defined in strictly negative terms, as the absence of confinement and constraint.

Think how we feel when we see someone we love ravaged by unwise actions or relationships. Do we respond with benign tolerance as we might toward strangers. Far from it... Anger isn't the opposite of love. hat is, and the final form of hate is indifference... God's wrath is not a cranky explosion, but his settled opposition to the cancer... which is eating out the insides of teh human rase he loves with his whole being.

The Biblical picture is that sin separates us from the presence of God, which is the source of all joy and indeed of all love, wisdom, or good things of any sorth. Since we were originally created for God's immediate presence, only before his face will we thrive, floursih, and achieve our highest potential. I we were to lose his presents toatally, that would be hell - the loss of our capability for giving or receiving love or joy.

Hell, then, is the trajectory of a soul, living a self-absorbed, self-centered life, going on and on forever.

It is not the question of God "sending us' to hell . Ineach of us there is something growing, which will BE Hell unless it is nipped in teh bud - CS Lewis

There are only two kinds of people -- those who say "Thy will be done" to God or thos whom God in the end says, "Thy will be done". .. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it.

Either this (the gospels) is reportage..or else, some unknown (ancient) writer.. without predecessors or successors, suddenly antipipated the whole technique o modern novelistic realiztic narrative.

To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible's teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn't have any views that upset you.

How can you empirically prove taht no one should believe something without empirical proof? you can't.

..... :) Challeging.