Posted on 08/15/2015 12:26:56 PM PDT by Salvation
The video below makes the point that “What’s important doesn’t change.” Not a bad reminder for us in modern times who have, to some extent, been bewitched by our technological advances. The fact that we have been to the moon and back does not mean that the moon, or the earth, or even we are different. Our knowledge may deepen our understanding of what is, but it does not change what is. There is a reality that we are discovering; we are not creating it. Today we have many new ways to communicate, but if anything, miscommunication is more common rather than less.
Our technology does not make us substantially different from our ancestors, nor does it fundamentally change the world, even if we do rearrange some of its elements.
Yet, sadly, many today think we can and have fundamentally altered what is, and that we are somehow different from and better than our ancestors. Thus the moral “rules” that they required no longer need apply to us, who are more “enlightened” and “mature” by comparison. This is pride; this is what it means to be “bewitched” by our technology. We may know more about particle physics, but that does not mean that we can say why there are particles at all, or how God instilled the order and laws that we call “physics” in all things.
God has made all things and ordered them rightly. And as for us, male and female He made us. Some people talk of bending “gender” and of being “trans-” this or that. No can do! Male and female He made us, as we are. What’s important doesn’t change. Human nature from God is important; it has not changed no matter what our distorted philosophies may conjure up.
And now to bring this discussion more to the level of the commercial in the video below: despite our computers and advanced science, a man still cannot fully understand a woman, nor a woman a man. We cannot even understand ourselves! As Scripture says, More tortuous than anything is the human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it? I, the LORD, explore the mind and test the heart, giving to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their deeds (Jer 17:9-10).
What’s important doesn’t change. Technology may change; surroundings may change; errors may come and go. But the basics do not change, for they come from the Word of God, which does not change.
Enjoy the video!
I usually don't post these, but this is a good message as it refers to the Word of God.
God has made all things and ordered them rightly. And as for us, male and female He made us.
Monsignor Pope Ping!
That was interesting. Thanks.
" male and female He made us. "
And He set His bow in the sky, as a sign that He would never again destroy the world by water. He did not set it in the sky for people to use at gay pride events.
Excellent! And just because we've discovered more pieces to the puzzle doesn't mean we've put them together correctly! An interesting, and amusing Reader's Digest article featured pictures and explanations of what was going to be found when the present culture was to become an archeological dig. The "ceremonial headdress" was a toilet seat, worn around the neck, with the lid up behind the person's head, The matching earrings were a set of toothbrushes with the holes on the end, tied around the ears with dental floss!
We think we know it all. Even relativity is still a "theory" (a word which, back in the day, meant it had yet to be proven) although it makes one H##L of a lot more sense than that of evolution. Basic Science will say that neither matter more energy can be created nor destroyed. Big Bang, Steady State theories of the universe still don't explain how it all got there in the first place.
There's nothing new under the sun- or around it, either! The smartest people in the world are those wise enough to realize how little we actually know! 👾
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