tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post3322955993568036790..comments2024-03-28T06:00:18.802-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: The Ultimate New Age Religion bionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-1221253602820526532022-01-09T02:45:54.214-08:002022-01-09T02:45:54.214-08:00This video sketches an outline of the traditional ...This video sketches an outline of the traditional Christian teaching that God created the world out of nothing. Creation out of nothing may appear to be a simple idea, but it is, in fact, a lot more surprising in its implications than many people—believers and non-believers—appreciate. Some of those implications will be explored in later videos. Here I simply map the basic terrain. Whether or not one believes in the divine creation of the world, it is worth taking a little time to understand what traditional Christian claims amount divine creation amount to. At least one then knows what it is one claims to believe (or not to believe). <br />https://youtu.be/9IX-JXkuQgsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-18640116292589231502022-01-04T22:56:30.795-08:002022-01-04T22:56:30.795-08:00Adding to the first sentence in my comment above, ...Adding to the first sentence in my comment above, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote this. <br /><br />“A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.”<br /><br />Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08156823478509665137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-21049045505326262302021-12-30T06:54:29.026-08:002021-12-30T06:54:29.026-08:00Good analysis as always. Lately I have been ponder...Good analysis as always. Lately I have been pondering Girard and what I call the banality of Satan, the logic of expulsion, ersatz victimhood maintenence of social/political order. It's what we know as humans without the Holy Spirit the revelation of ChristAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-24731532698591818982021-12-30T05:03:13.622-08:002021-12-30T05:03:13.622-08:00"No man lives without a god. The god for the..."No man lives without a god. The god for the Nihilist is nihilo – nothing: “The Nihilist will the world, which once revolved about God, to revolve now about – nothing.” What is left but to sink into the abyss left by nothingness? It is an order that cannot stand, hence one reason that the de-construction will continue, as there never is a place where nothingness reaches completion, a place where one hits bottom." --BM<br /><br />For Satan, this last assertion is probably true since Satan is not creative, but destructive. His goal is not to create anything, but to destroy everything that has been created. He will eternally be striving and working toward total nothingness. <br /><br />For Satan's human followers, the statement is partially true. It IS an order which cannot stand AND the destruction will continue, BUT there is a place where it comes to an end because humans are finite and, while they may profess a belief in 'nothingness', they are not capable of acting completely in concert with that belief. Every person is made in the Image of God and has the 'spark of creativity' within himself, which serves the purpose of limiting the destructiveness of his desires. Man can only go so far before reaching the limit of natural law beyond which he can go no further. For many, like Adolf Hitler, a bullet in the brain is the final act of destruction. <br /><br />It is like riding in a speeding car and hitting a solid, impervious, impermeable wall. The wall stands undamaged. The car and all its occupants are destroyed. Someone else comes along after the fact, cleans up the mess, and the process starts all over again...somewhere else. <br /><br />Destruction, humanly speaking, can only be practiced to a certain point where consequences catch up to it and bring it to an end. Even Satan, the author of destruction, is also constrained to a point--"Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person." (Job 1:12)<br /><br />God created the cosmos out of nothing by the sheer force of His Word. Satan cannot return this creation into a state of nothingness, he can only corrupt and destroy certain parts of it. There will always be something left with which to start over and rebuild. Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08156823478509665137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-22587376820866009982021-12-29T14:30:53.656-08:002021-12-29T14:30:53.656-08:00Well said.Well said.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-85049490245790873452021-12-29T13:45:04.302-08:002021-12-29T13:45:04.302-08:00Proudhon might not have asked anything of Satan bu...Proudhon might not have asked anything of Satan but to be his spokesman, but Satan demanded his life and therefore to be eternally damned with him.<br /><br />These guys think this is what freedom is. To think whatever pleases their own soul. But what pleases the soul of a sinner? Sin. What pleases the soul of a believer in Jesus? Jesus. Those are the only true options. It isn't shackles or freedom. It is sin (death) or Jesus (life). It just so happens in Christ there is freedom.RMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603112499567064214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-84123328693322234022021-12-29T04:17:44.352-08:002021-12-29T04:17:44.352-08:00“He notes that one of the most difficult Christian...“He notes that one of the most difficult Christian doctrines for the wise of our age to accept is that of creatio ex nihilo – creation out of nothing;”. This is fundamental. It is the foundation of Christianity. It’s at the beginning of the Bible for a reason. Coach Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09167865897870354379noreply@blogger.com