Posted on 01/13/2006 6:17:24 AM PST by sheltonmac
As a Catholic I quite agree with you. Adam and Eve's fall in the Garden of Eden was because of disobedience and pride not because of boredom.
The #1 problem is sin and the only solution to that problem is Jesus.
I whipped this up a year or so ago, for a friend to use as his "avatar" on another message board. You provided the Arminian version, now here's the Calvinist super-hero....
Amen.
Nice. Very Sean Connery-ish.
Hmmmm....I was curious and looked up boredom in scripture. Nobody seems to have been bored. Maybe Schuller longs for the days when a plague of locust was right around the corner or a Babylonian army was coming to carry you off to captivity. It certainly seem to have solved their boredom.
After 38 years in the wilderness: "Aren't you old farts dead yet?"
Sounds like Norman Vincent Peale will never die.
Nice. Very Sean Connery-ish.
Or Doc Savage. Not quite as droll as Sproul-Yoda, but good. Got a larger version of that?
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