tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post6780824509129529386..comments2024-02-18T12:18:45.788-05:00Comments on Sun and Shield: The Sharing Knife, Religious AspectsMartin LaBarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post-55138535228871369632009-08-10T06:46:36.183-04:002009-08-10T06:46:36.183-04:00Found by a search on the Bible and games? Wow! I h...Found by a search on the Bible and games? Wow! I had no clue that you would have found this obscure blog that way.<br /><br />Thanks for your thoughts. We'll just have to leave what happens to us after death in God's hands. I don't think there is enough Biblical data.Martin LaBarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post-10949638794731855382009-08-09T19:17:49.915-04:002009-08-09T19:17:49.915-04:00sorry for being out of topic. just that i came to ...sorry for being out of topic. just that i came to your blog via google when i was searching for articles on the bible and games(whether God approves of games like football). <br /><br />anyways, concerning death, I just read an article from one the links in your link. (http://home.entouch.net/dmd/death.htm). <br /><br />I was reflecting on this issue and found out that the law seem to have 2 facets: blessing and cursing: He is the Lord of Mercy(Love) but also Lord of Judgement(both the Lamb and Lion of Juda). is creation an interplay of these forces (good and evil, darkness and light, life and death,etc)? <br /><br />David said how he loves his judgements, and Jesus said he was doing his will when he died. Was there death before the fall?(I suspect this topic is treated by Paul when he discusses the Law vs Grace). Our ancestors(adam and eve) were really searching for the mystery of the Gospel of Lord Jesus Christ(the knowledge of good and evil). But you wouldn't know it without going through it, i.e dying.<br /><br />Is "natural selection" natural? (how about the talk in Issiah that the lamb will play with lion, small child with serpents, etc at the last of age?). <br /><br />On the one hand maybe we are just being hard on death. there seems to be an interplay between death and life even in our present chritian lifes. Paul talks of us having 2 natures in us, the law of life and law of sin, but he seem to say we are now dead to sin and we aught to live in the spirit. He also mention something about dying daily. Also there was a thorn in the flesh that wouldn't go away and God told him "my power is displayed in weakness". Maybe christianity is an understanding how these 2 principles works, his grace on the one hand our weakness. <br /><br />I guess at the last of age, immortality will come back again, As humanity will hold enough faith in Christ(The Tree of Life) to subsist. Each age seems to have an opportunity to experience this through the rapture since Jesus said if any man believed in Him, they will never die; of cause most people think he was telling a parable, but I think he needs to be taken literally here: a true faith in the Son of God will cause a man to never die (think Enoch and Elija). Jesus Christ died (temporarily) and went up into heaven(in the flesh). Infact, it is this believe, we are told, that constitutes our salvation. Christ came to set an example that immortality is possible by being immortal himself. He is still alive! He is the King who was prophesied to be on the throne of david forever. The immortal King.Mr. Johnson Mafokohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185556676996088860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post-39088585625930896132009-08-08T04:53:15.467-04:002009-08-08T04:53:15.467-04:00Thank you, Mr. Johnson Mafoko. As I suppose you kn...Thank you, Mr. Johnson Mafoko. As I suppose you know, you comment has nothing particular to do with the post you commented on, but I have dealt with these matters in the past, and, God willing, will do so again in the future.<br /><br />As you say, correct understanding the timing and means of origins are not necessary for salvation. That's a good thing, because if they were, few if any of us would be saved.<br /><br />I have a <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~mflabar/OriginsTheories.htm" rel="nofollow">web page</a>, which is not part of my blog, on various views of origins, all but one of them held by some Christians. Even that web page cannot cover all the possibilities.<br /><br />I don't have serious problems with anything you said -- in other words, I don't think any of it can be totally ruled out on Scriptural grounds, and some other Christians hold the same view that you do.<br /><br />I do <i>disagree</i> with some of what you said. In other words, my interpretation is different.<br /><br />One disagreement is on the time of the creation of the solar system. I take the Bible to mean that the sun and moon would not have been <i>visible</i> until the time when the Bible seems to indicate that they were created. They were already there. But God would have been capable of doing what you said.<br /><br />I'm not sure that survival of the fittest is really evil. A great deal of good is accomplished through death, such as the provision of food, fiber, and lumber for us, and, especially, redemption through Christ's death. That being the case, isn't it possible that death of those less fit merely seems evil to us, rather than actually being evil in God's sight? (I know that the Bible says that death is an enemy to be conquered!)<br /><br />Thanks for your comments.Martin LaBarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14629053725732957599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post-91278305541677627702009-08-07T14:25:36.574-04:002009-08-07T14:25:36.574-04:00*speculation and knowledge about origin and the li...*speculation and knowledge about origin and the like, i tend to relegate them to when i get to heaven(tgey are not necessary for salvation or to know now).Mr. Johnson Mafokohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185556676996088860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9661811.post-31613624892447732192009-08-07T14:21:43.952-04:002009-08-07T14:21:43.952-04:00Hi I wrote a article on biblical evolution in a ph...Hi I wrote a article on biblical evolution in a philosophy forum but the editors did not like it. I will like to hear your take on this. <br />--------------<br /><br />In the bible from Genesis 1 till Genesis 2:3 we get the Genesis story of God creating the world in 7 days(my qualification is that 7 days here is not literal because of 1 Peter which states "1 day is 1000 days to the LORD ... "). <br /><br />Genesis 2:4 seems to have a change in tone to the creation story( it gives details of the 3rd epoch/day ), it seems we are taken back to events of the 3rd day ( Genesis 1:9 ) when GOD created vegetative life. To me this strongly suggest evolutionary creation. The evolutionist miss it is by the denying that God initiated life. God might have created the world evolutionarily ( I say might owing to fallability of science in general ). This is a position I currently hold, not out of compromise, but because I feel is supported by scripture. <br /><br />Also notice life ( vegitation ) is created before the solar system (Genesis 1:14-19 - 4th day). To me, this seem to suggest that the planet earth must have been made from somewhere and then swang around the sun. Notice also the creation of solar system is concurrent with the creation of the sun(lights in the sky) suggesting that it is star as well. The light that was created in the first day(Genesis 1:3) is best interpreted (in modern terms) as energy, and its darkness counterpart as dark energy(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy). And the waters are best intepreted as fluids of the prime elements. And their separation, a separation of matter and anti-matter(Genesis 1:6). <br /><br />In summary, Life ( vegetation ) was created on the 3th epoch/day (Genesis 1:11) before the solar system(the 4th epoch ) which evolved through the 5th epoch/day into fish and birds. And think birds here should be intepreted as a species/class which encompasses dinasours which also laid eggs and Genesis 1:23 states that "birds should increase on the earth" ( which to me suggest dinasour age ). On the 6th epoch/day we have an evolution of mamamals and finally first man ( adam ). The moral of the creation story is that God was at the center stage of the processes of nature. Evolutionism denies this while creationism denies the evidence or experience( and to some extent scripture ), and both fall at that. <br />------------------------<br /><br />I wouldn't say I hold this now. I tend to believe that man was not created evolutionarily. But on the one hand "the state of nature" seems to me to be evil(survival of the fittest), how could this be a work of God. Nowadays I tend to concentrate on things that lead to salvation, speculation and knowledge about origin and the like i tend to relegate them to heaven(they are not necessary to know). by the way why is science preocupied to know these things anyway. why do we pay people who study dinosours? how does it benefit modern society. i can see the study of human history is beneficiary, as for dinasours i tend to see it as more of hobby rather than of practical value. on the one hand I stil value archelogical facts, it is the interpretation thereof that seem dubious and waste of public funds. what do you think.Mr. Johnson Mafokohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185556676996088860noreply@blogger.com