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Well, no one is arguing with me, which either means I’m on the right track or no one is reading… At any rate, I’m going to argue with myself a bit… and compare God with the roadrunner (meep! meep!)

In the first article in this little series (this being the third), I began the subject of ‘why do bad things happen to good people’ by speaking of the recent death of Jim Shaw.  I then went on to say that something like this is most certainly not a part of God’s plan.  I meant that, and I believe that, but I would like to now append a caveat. 

I was looking at some of my brethrens’ blogs on a popular social blogging site and ran across the site of a family member of brother shaw’s.  In a post speaking of the tragedy, she had posted the lyrics of a song which says “… and it surely is a part of God’s great plan.”   Well, that seems to go right against what I said earlier, but in reality it does not.  I believe that both statements are true, so stick with me and I’ll attempt to explain how this seeming contradiction coexists. Read the rest of this entry »

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No, it is not part of the free love movement gone sci-fi, it is the newest scientific method for explaining away us Christian types that don’t buy into the evolutionary worldview.

In a recent article titled, “Why do some people resist science?”, psychologists Paul Bloom and Deena Weisberg grope for some psychological problem to explain…. me.  A grown-up-who-ought-to-know-better still believing that things have purpose… kinda pitiful, ain’t I?   Here is an excerpt from their article that will explain the title of my post:

…One significant bias is that children naturally see the world in terms of design and purpose. For instance, four year-olds insist that everything has a purpose, including lions (”to go in the zoo”) and clouds (”for raining”), a propensity that Deborah Kelemen has dubbed “promiscuous teleology.” Additionally, when asked about the origin of animals and people, children spontaneously tend to provide and to prefer creationist explanations.

A ’significant bias’?  You have got to be kidding me.  In a world of biases, at least Christians like me admit our bias upfront, that bias being, “God said it and I believe it.”  But am I supposed to believe that these two scientists, while talking about those with a bias towards creationism have no bias of their own?  Why would they have entered into such a study in the first place, I wonder?  I am willing to stake a picture of Ronny Wade with an afro (a priceless posession), that if these two were intellectually honest, they would answer that, in their minds, the only explanation for ‘promiscuous teleology’ among those who ‘prefer creationist explanations’ is some dimwitted childhood psychological phenomenon that we have failed to grow out of… a significant bias, if you ask me.

Now come on everyone, let us hold hands, sing Kumbaya, and “persuade children and adults that the institute of science is, for the most part, worthy of trust (see the last sentence of their article).”  I actually agree with that statement, it is just the activist scientists out to prove evolution is 100% true and religion is a mental disorder that I have a problem with.  Phooey.

Sticking with my pathetic 4-year-old worldview in which things have purpose,

/Here is the convenience-age explanation of what this article is about, written in text-message-ese and graphics for those that can only digest information in tiny misspelled chunks.  (I strive to cater to a wide audience)

//I have not forgotten the series on ‘why bad things happen to good people’ this article just distracted me, must be that 4-year-old ADHD that I also haven’t grown out of…

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So after all the blame of his three friends, assuring Job that no one is punished unless they had it coming to them, and Job is unable to figure out why such horrible things are happening to him, he challenges God to speak already and show him what terrible thing he did to bring this punishment down upon him.

So God speaks.  Read the rest of this entry »

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I’m sure the madness and wickedness of this world has peaked in the minds of many of my brethren this week as they heard of the deplorable murder of a dear brother in Christ.  Jim Shaw was 73 and while I never personally met him, I have heard his name come up on several occasions and know he was/is well loved by his brethren and was a diligent worker for the Kingdom.  I also know assuredly that such a violent death was not owed him. 

What sense does it make that the person who robbed him had to kill him?  Surely if they could overpower him to take his life, they could have easily overpowered him and restrained him instead, leaving him hurt and frightened, surely, but leaving him alive… and yet the attacker made the choice to take another man’s life, altering the lives of many, shattering our feeling of safety, perhaps shaking our faith a little too?  Or a lot, even…

If you are trying to puzzle out what sense this makes and what part it plays in God’s plan, I have some advice for you.  Don’t.  There is a mistaken belief out there that every little thing that happens is part of God’s plan and I for one do not buy it.   Read on –>

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A man had a son, whom, as father’s have a tendency to do… he loved dearly.  One day while fishing at the lake, as they often did on a sunny afternoon, the man had to go back to their car to fetch their lunch.  In the few short moments that he was away, his son fell into the lake and being small and a poor swimmer, he began to sink.  A good samaritan saw him fall in and ran to his rescue just in time. 

As you might imagine, the boys father was full of gratitude for this stranger who rescued his son.  Being a poor man, he wanted to do something to express his thankfulness and affection towards this heroic fellow, but with limited means, could not think of how to do so.  He asked the hero how to repay him and was told, “Just let me come fishing with you sometimes, I don’t have many friends and I would enjoy having someone to talk with while I’m at the lake.”

“Hog warsh,” thought the man, “Surely I can do something better than that…”  The man was from Kentucky and so had many strange and uncouth personality traits.  One of these was his strange affection for the color yellow… with white polka dots.  He often wore shirts of this scheme, his car was painted in concert, and even his home fit into the sublimely dotted harmony of lemonesque transcendence.  So naturally, he decided to reverence his champion by painting his heroic homestead the most splendid sunny hue with the perfect amount of presicely placed polka dots.

His hero was non-plussed.  But why?  The man had done the most wonderful deed he could think of to express his gratitude and love… why had the hero not been pleased?

Because the man did what he purposed in his own heart and not the simple thing that the hero of the story stated he wanted.

I wonder what God thinks when he sees so many McChurches catering to every desire and thought that men can dream up and call it worshiping God, when He has just asked for some very simple, decent, and orderly worship?  I’ll tell you what he sees…  a perfectly good house painted yellow with white polka dots.

Luke 22:42 “… not My will, but Yours, be done.”

Matthew 16:24 “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

Leviticus 10:1 Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them.   2 So fire went out from the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

Matthew 15:9  And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.

ETC.  (emphasis mine)

Worshiping God in Spirit and in truth (how ’bout you?),

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Thirteen Reasons/Excuses why I haven’t posted in weeks

1. I’ve been somewhat busy installing 540 square feet of hardwood flooring.

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