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Posted on 12/11/2020 5:54:07 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6
The Bible encourages us to meditate on it (Ps. 1:1-3, 119:11-16, etc.); these artists have done so, and their works can assist us and enrich our own thoughts about biblical characters, incidents and concepts, and increase our faith in He who is behind it all. As you encounter and consider these images and the related Scriptures and the Spirit enlightens your understanding, please share it with us!
But it is not only oil-on-canvas that can so help us; I refer to the astonishing video series The Chosen, which strolls through the four Gospels at the most leisurely pace. The eight episodes of Season 1 are finished, and the second of a planned seven seasons is being filmed right now. I say "leisurely" because after an entire year's viewing Jesus still has only seven of the apostles (although He's preparing to call up Thomas from the minor leagues--but Thomas is skeptical, of course). Anticipating a canvas of fifty-plus hours instead of a movie's paltry two hours, The Chosen turns the characters (especially including Jesus!) into three-dimensional humans and brings the Gospels alive--you have never seen anything even remotely like it! Here is the Official Trailer.
Here is a link for free viewing of The Chosen: "Works with your phone, tablet, and you can cast to your Roku or Chromecast." Last fall I paid $34.98 for DVDs and ongoing internet access—best 35 bucks I've ever spent (I don't recall how much our marriage license cost, but then it was 43 years ago).
They must have been Democrats.................. Weiner, Toobin, Epstein, Clinton, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden...............
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A very inspired and new take!
I love it.
Excellent!
Well done on a difficult assignment.
Hopefully God will banish them!..................
Thanks. I tackled the 1Chr.16 passage yesterday that I requested prayer for, and I think it succeeded. You’ll see it in a week.
How must God view our society today?
I KNEW the PP Pic was coming.
Even so, it was still STUNNING and DEVASTATING.
Had to do it—had no “choice.”
You’ve still got it.
Yes, thanks to you.
Probably you already know that Sunday evening we will have Christmas with THE CHOSEN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7J65DhhEcg
Yours is an important question. Today's society is no different in kind from any other era's. The details differ: widespread abortion, feeding Christians to lions, flaying prisoners alive, Inquisition torture and auto-da-fé, the Holocaust. Read Foxe's Book of Martyrs, if you have the stomach for it.
But every society is composed entirely of desperately depraved sinners, a minority of whom get redeemed and begin sanctification. What boggles my mind is how God views every single stinking thought, not to mention the diabolical deeds, of every putrid person. It must be like swimming in a cesspool for Him.
He knew that would be the case before He ever created the world--and went ahead anyway. He had a Plan....
Yes—I believe they’ll include Dallas’ short nativity drama. it’s a good one.
If you counted one number per second, how long would it take you to count to 1 million?
11 days, counting 24 hrs. a day.
How long to count to 1 billion?
30 years!
A trillion? = 30,000 years!
The immensity of God's creation is imponderable! (Not that poets, artists, writers and thinkers throughout the ages haven't stopped trying!)
I believe there are other created beings. Beings who didn't fall to temptation and sin...we are the only ones in His creation who fell into sin and we are being watched...as His plan for the universe unfolds before their wondering senses.
Heb 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Heb 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Worlds, plural, more than one. Then:
Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
I don’t think He created the other worlds in vain either – he formed them to be inhabited as well.
In today's society we argue about whether helping the poor should be funded publicly or privately. In England and Europe in 1800, there was no thought given to helping them at all. It was Wilberforce who changed that by leading the fight to abolish slavery in the British Empire.
I believe there are other created beings. Beings who didn't fall to temptation and sin
Then you would find fascination in CS Lewis' Space Trilogy. The middle book, Perelandra, describes Satan's temptation of Venus's Eve. Rather than the Bible's brief two-paragraph report of our Eve's temptation, Lewis conjures TWENTY PAGES of Satan's arguments and Eve's responses. It is easily the best writing I have encountered this side of Romans, and his biographer said Lewis considered it his very best book (although his "favorite" was the sequel, That Hideous Strength).
I’ll put re-reading the trilogy on the calendar!
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