Posted on 08/04/2017 1:01:20 PM PDT by Hadean
Well, sin is not OK. Not if you ask God about it.
Trouble is, everybody’s been trying to figure out life on their own without God. Various excuses pop up readily when this is pointed out. Like who are you going to believe about God, isn’t He an infinitely malleable puppet made up by men?
It turns out He is not, but people have set Him up to be such a straw man by ignoring large swaths of His biblically attested attributes. Such as love. People want God to bring them decency that they can then boast of, as though it belonged to them and not to God after all. Since this is a fruit of the love of God, God won’t cooperate in such a plan.
... and, because love is such a vital root of such things as what we are, people pushing away the love of God will then look for the love of other bizarre things to support their identity. The love of idols, of images, in fact of fakery that only becomes apparent as fakery when one has beheld the love of God expressed in turn in humanity.
And that’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
Like an outfit that specializes in terminating prenatal life really cares about the mental and emotional lives of children. The ones they don’t pick off before they have a chance to he born, they encourage to be raised in a twisted and addled way.
Why of course, and it seems to me that the folks up in arms about child abuse would be gagging at the idea of what is so sanitarily called “abortion.” In the bad old USA, at least, there isn’t an attempt to even do it with euthanasia... from what I hear of China, China does.
Ready - Set ...
And then we wonder why China is getting as powerful as it is. It isn’t just economics. In some sense, even though China has many more killings, at least they try not to be cruel about it too. In a way there’s more love in China.
There’s also more music in China, if what I recently heard on a video from Living Pianos is true. More pianos are selling per capita IN China than elsewhere in the world.
God might be preparing to make a stealth appearance in China, is the way I am reading these proverbial tea leaves. God is love. Love doesn’t come from any other place; it can be twisted by hell but hell can’t generate it from scratch.
Apparently, those they can’t murder in the womb they want to mentally abuse. What uncivilized ghouls.
One does need to study bible history to draw valid parallels.
When Israel went after idols, it really did deserve the likening. It as if God scheduled in the most resolutely ornery souls He could find.
By the time Sodom arrived on the scene in full evil, debauchery had been embraced to the point that even Abraham’s appeal — Lord, can we even find 10 righteous (by faith) men? — failed.
Let us not denigrate our blessings that remain while we decry the sin. In fact let us remember that blessings are the only thing that can drive away curses. Or as the old saying goes, it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Our 3 year old granddaughter told my wife and me that her 1 year old brother had a “hanging Pee-pee.” She followed that statement with “that is because he is a boy and I am different because I am a girl.” We beamed at each other
That young girl has more sense than all of the Planned Parenthood, liberal, socialist, agenda driven LBGTQueers in the world.
Note: “Gender” is applied to nouns, not people. It is the “why” of “Le and La” in the French language.
Using “Gender” to mean “Sex” demonstrates, to all, a person's ignorance.
Keep Lurkin, it is what I do at night.
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It’s an aberration compared to where America had been for decades, nay, centuries.
However, if we who are not yet fully caught up in the madness fear the Lord, we’ll notice that Christian faith has all but walked out on its Savior.
When I came to a church congregation that finally made such a big deal out of putting its Savior first and worshiping Him for all He was worth that it would sing about that for 75% of its service and talk about it for the other 25%, I came into a place that might have been tagged by the world as holy rollers, silly enthusiasts, people overdoing religion.
But that’s actually closer to where most of America had been. What we call a fundie attitude now was SOP even in what is now the old musty legacy denominations.
It is ultimately God who permits these scenarios to play out on the world stage. He knows what the souls that He is scheduling in will do. He knows what the drama will be.
That said, its plot depends on Him arranging it. We can shake our fist at it all we want and that won’t change a thing. But if a revival comes and we all cheerfully get on board, THAT will change a whole lot. But that revival will come uncomfortably for many of us. It will hold mirrors up to our own sins. Will we be willing to yield those sins to the authority of God and permit them to be replaced with His righteousness? One particularly bad sin of modern America is hard heartedness. The right largely wants to be left alone. The left fakes caring by a keyhole-visioned concentration on one little aspect of a situation. It might take a “nut” like Donald Trump to even envision something better.
I don’t know much about what’s going on in China, but I do have the feeling that I am living among a lot of people whom I don’t care to recognize as my countrymen. If their brand of lunacy ever really takes hold here — and it has gone way too far already in darkening minds and destroying social institutions — then I am convinced it will be unlike anything the world has ever seen. This is what “freedom” looks like in a morally rotted-out society.
What little I know about China was picked up here and there. I never launched into a comprehensive study of China. But a few details did seem noteworthy to me.
And I’d point out that love is what makes countrymen, countrymen. I’ve been writing songs as a part of an amateur partnership for years, songs of a kind that the mainstream doesn’t even care about, but ought to be caring about deeply if it cared about the Source of all true love, that is, the Lord.
Without caring about this Source, all we can do is care about artifacts, hoot at the rest in derision, and get a grossly distorted point of view.
Basically, only the love of God can “re-moralize” what is, for now, post-Christian.
But again look at bible history. Israel was set forth as an example. It would, again and again, go “post-Jewish.” And again and again, God would let the devil knock it upside the head until it finally saw where its true blessings came from.
Christianity gives the world a leg up on Old Testament views of faith, but even Jesus is useless to a world that can only hoot at Him.
My dad would have punched the school administrator in the face.
Sixty years ago.
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God has a say in the sex of the baby.
(I’m so tired of the word, gender.)
True that! Their DNA does.
OR ELSE WHAT?
In my reality planned parenthood doesn't exist. Certainly has no authority to redefine the concepts and principles of biology, nor to determine the sex ("gender" applies to words) of my children.
What they do to their own family of freaks is their business and what I choose to call them depends on my own perceptions.
No apology should be expected nor will one be offered.
Just deal with it!
Oh, wait...
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