tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post3736870469972632787..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: From Reformation to Enlightenmentbionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-15360540772879541352018-10-11T20:38:20.512-07:002018-10-11T20:38:20.512-07:00This is one interpretation of many, and a debate I...This is one interpretation of many, and a debate I prefer to avoid here.<br /><br />I presented this point as was presented in the N.T. Wright video. Because I do this should not suggest endorsement.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-68022334869232701332018-10-10T11:47:19.780-07:002018-10-10T11:47:19.780-07:00"If the world is coming to an end, to be repl..."If the world is coming to an end, to be replaced by the Kingdom of God, the chances of inferring anything about the latter from the former are effectively nil. If heaven is coming, earth has to be abolished."<br /><br />Earth does not have to be abolished, and will not be. Man will run riot, under the direct influence of Satan, and the earth will be badly damaged, so much that if the Lord does not intervene, no one would survive. See Revelation chapters 19 & 20.<br /><br />The Lord will rule for 1000 years and during that time the earth will be healed, and the abundance that existed right after man was cast from the garden, will exist once more. People will live long lives, so long that person who dies before they are 100 will have done so because they rebelled against the Lord.<br /><br />This universe will, in the end, be destroyed after one final rebellion soon after the 1000 year reign of Christ. The heavens and earth will be recreated, and God will come to earth to live among His people. Heaven will then exist on earth.Quartermasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-6810238796816270632018-10-10T00:56:17.624-07:002018-10-10T00:56:17.624-07:00So when God ordered His people to commit genocide ...So when God ordered His people to commit genocide and mass rape that made it okay?Gilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-67156076762952262472018-10-10T00:55:07.192-07:002018-10-10T00:55:07.192-07:00So the Medieval age was the best: the uneducated, ...So the Medieval age was the best: the uneducated, short-lived masses wouldn't question the powers that be or how the world really works?Gilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-64601982665640021022018-10-09T08:43:40.336-07:002018-10-09T08:43:40.336-07:00This might be worth your time. Very similar back-...This might be worth your time. Very similar back-and-forth.<br /><br />https://www.lawliberty.org/2018/10/09/yoram-hazonys-the-virtue-of-nationalism-a-law-and-liberty-symposium/Eric Morrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-10805083495724515532018-10-08T21:36:33.052-07:002018-10-08T21:36:33.052-07:00I would love to read your comments to the Peter Th...I would love to read your comments to the Peter Thiel and N.T. Wright conversations. There are two of them on Youtube. Magis gentlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04631485285663878265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-85830757361568007052018-10-08T20:53:03.522-07:002018-10-08T20:53:03.522-07:00As if the establishment of God's Kingdom on Ea...As if the establishment of God's Kingdom on Earth, once and for eternity, is in our hands! Vanity indeed.<br />His Day will come as a thief in the night.JaimeInTexashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08729407700850451849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-82577162619610486042018-10-08T19:42:28.865-07:002018-10-08T19:42:28.865-07:00"Do you believe in the Virgin birth? Do you ..."Do you believe in the Virgin birth? Do you believe in the physical Resurrection? 'Yes' is not allowed in polite company, in the rational and reasonable west."<br /><br />The "rational" and "reasonable" West has established its own theocracy. To wit: <br /><br />In at least a dozen different European countries, Holocaust denial is illegal. In those same dozen European countries, Resurrection of Christ denial is not only legal, but celebrated. <br /><br />No matter. The chattering classes have taught me well. I live in constant fear of the encroaching Christian theocracy.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05242683448708605585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-50994354014551721902018-10-08T16:38:20.757-07:002018-10-08T16:38:20.757-07:00The third lecture is on the agenda for the next da...The third lecture is on the agenda for the next day or two.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-86371002419960530662018-10-08T16:37:13.030-07:002018-10-08T16:37:13.030-07:00"Without God, there is no law above the insti..."Without God, there is no law above the institutions of Mankind and thus no effective check on earthly power and vice."<br /><br />ATL, I personally agree with you, but so others around here don't get the idea that I am after establishing a theocracy...I am just fine with culture and tradition playing the role, as traditions that enhance life will naturally survive. <br /><br />Further, allowing culture and tradition to play this role removes the possibility of man-made legislation - the most dangerous situation that we find ourselves in today..bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-85912461283071244052018-10-08T14:59:09.142-07:002018-10-08T14:59:09.142-07:00Yeah, Wright says here that the expectation of the...Yeah, Wright says here that the expectation of the earth to end is incorrect. But in his 4th lecture he seems to be at least defending an intense event as he looks through apocalyptic writing and genre.<br /><br />Part of what he means might be that the Kingdom of God doesn't wait until the earth is destroyed to be "inaugurated". It won't come to completion until that destruction, but the Kingdom was birthed at the Resurrection. We live in the Kingdom now in a subtle way. Your point about Christian leaders I think bears out this idea of Wright's. We live as the Kingdom is on earth today even though Jesus isn't on the earth today like at the end.<br /><br />I encourage you to watch the 3rd as he discusses what history is and how accurate history must be built. It is only through this proper building of history that we can understand the Gospels and Natural Theology, etc.RMBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-647871663960401832018-10-08T12:33:45.255-07:002018-10-08T12:33:45.255-07:00"Given that this end-of-the-world event was w..."Given that this end-of-the-world event was wholly created by man, we see that what was born was not God’s heaven on earth, but man’s hell" - Bionic Mosquito<br /><br />This reminds of that wonderful Omar Bradley quote:<br /><br />"We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living."<br /><br />"It seems that the dark side begins and ends with man subtracting God from the equation" - Bionic Mosquito<br /><br />I'm thinking more and more that this is the key issue. Without God, there is no law above the institutions of Mankind and thus no effective check on earthly power and vice. It's as if a master builder came among us and started building for us wonderful houses and assembly halls, and before he was through, in our hubris, we decided to outcast him and use his tools for ourselves to complete the buildings according to our own vision, with tragedy as a result.<br /><br />"One who substitutes the master carpenter to chop the wood,<br />Rarely does not hurt his hands." Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching<br /><br />Hoppe and Rothbard both have created their own marvelous rational proofs and delineations of the libertarian ethic, and I believe if implemented, each would work, at least for a time, but how are we to bring a non-aggressive society into being, and how are we to keep it that way? Most people don't know Hoppe or Rothbard nor would they have the patience to read through and understand their impressive (and perhaps irrefutable) logical and empirical arguments for peacefully competitive and consensual authority. People as a whole are just moved by something other than Reason, and when Reason is given sovereignty, it usually ends up in the hands of much less disciplined practitioners than the likes of Hoppe and Rothbard and tends to have as its result the reign of madness rather than of rationality.<br /><br />“A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason” - G.K. ChestertonA Texas Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980539931923054404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-4181769356452966742018-10-08T12:16:17.181-07:002018-10-08T12:16:17.181-07:00Thank you, Dave.
When I am thinking of things lik...Thank you, Dave.<br /><br />When I am thinking of things like Christian leaders acting like Christian leaders, I believe I leave room for the non-God-fearing.<br /><br />Christian leaders: if they speak out against war, militarism, torture, unquestioned support of Israel, unlimited government spying...all quite consistent with Christ's teaching, this would be a start toward a more free society.<br /><br />My point is not to look for converts; my point is that the culture would slowly change. Many non-believers live as if they believe. It would help if Christian leaders preached as if they believe. bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-45462824894803455742018-10-08T09:27:59.237-07:002018-10-08T09:27:59.237-07:00Yet again bionic you knocked my socks off, I think...Yet again bionic you knocked my socks off, I think your work needs more recognition. Elaborating on these topics is fundamental, and while I regard NAP as the same it matters not without foundation. Perhaps the separation of church and state isn't such a good thing, but I grew up in a religious home, I grew to dislike it until I matured, can you touch on what else might govern, because not all people are as God fearing as iSchueyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04232403843503910978noreply@blogger.com