Trusting in God

In 2 Corinthians Ch 1, we see again for the first time the idea of trusting in God, rather than trying to save ourselves.  My parish priest recently preached a sermon on the subject.  We can't go it alone.  God is the only one strong enough to save us from our sin.

Falling Away, Returning

Upon reading about how Ezra read the law to the Israelites, I see parallels.  The people of my society fall away from God, and discouver the Gospel.  Individuals themselves--myself included--see their faith wax and wane.  Although, I've recently read that that last part is evidence of demon activity.  

And, speaking of demons, the falling away of the Israelite people usually included the worshiping of foreign gods--and evil practices--and then the dispersing of the Hebrew people, often being taken into exile/slavery.  The evil practices, it is said, angered God.  It is what separated the people from God.

Gone Goofy

Today, we exchanged the Peace, and sang the Olfactory Hymn.  As we started in to the Eucharistic prayer. a woman--a warden once--behind me proclaimed loudly that we haven't even exchanged the peace yet.  I think her mind is going.  I guess we all get there.  It reminds me of the struggles with my own father when he was in the home.  The worst part of it all is than when we've gone goofy, we don't even know; it hurts those around us.

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It's all lies

Chilli con Carney--the Beijing Banker--says that he's going to get rid of the carbon tax and all that, in order to court the median voter.  But the left knows that he's lying too; or they wouldn't vote for him.  There will be no scrapping of the carbon tax, no pipelines built, and taxes will do nothing but go up.

Federal Polling Numbers

I just want to live in a cabin on an uninhabited mountain in the wild.  Eff the world.

14

1 Corinthians Ch 14 sure doesn't sound like St. Paul held speaking in tongues in very high regard.  And yet, so many evangelicals swear by it.  I've even been told that if I *were* a Christian, I would manifest *all* the Gifts of the Spirit.  Thomas Keating said that it was a distraction to the faith.  

And, speaking of Ch 14, there's that bit about women again.  Some would argue that St. Paul was a misogynist.  But, Cliff Knechtle says that it was (women's role in the Church) due to the fact the women were not allowed to be educated by Jewish custom; he wanted them to become educated to be authorities first, like Priscilla or Chloe.

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If Carbon Tax Carney, The Beiging Banker, gets elected, I'll have to stop writing here.

LPC internet censorship is coming y'all!

If I wanted to hear from an @$$hole, I'd fart OR opinions are like @$$holes ==> everybody has one, but you don't have to show it off.

On my way to work yesterday, I passed a car with very lard decals that said college educated evil feminist on the side.  Why do people have to instigate?  It's like the Darwin fish.  Why provoke people?

Cover your head?

St. Paul talks about women covering their heads, and somehow--maybe--being accountable to men.  It's a hard passage for modern man, for sure.  Brought up up constantly by Atheists and Feminists, I've only ever heard one real good answer, and I've forgotten it.  Sam Shamoun?  Cliff Knechtle?  I'd have to go looking.

Is it a sign, or a promise?

 Nehemiah talked about the Jews being brought home when they turned back to God.

Lent

My Lent is going pretty alright.  I'm praying some, fasting some.  I offer it-such as it is--up to God.  Not as pious as I should be, I've--somehow--made peace with who I am, my failings in faith this year.

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One Orange Buffoon

I'm so disappointed and discouraged. The pendulum was swinging back, toward fiscal responsibility, liberty, and small government.  Then Trump and his tariffs have single handedly handed the election to the left.  I can't take another four years of liberalism.  I want to withdraw from the world.

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Meal

At the Church last Tuesday night for the soup kitchen, I felt evil.  I encountered an individual who was either suffering from severe mental illnesses, or....

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Chilli Con Carney

I haven't been this disappointed with the Canadian electorate since they elected Socks McGroper after the black face scandal.  Carney is lying about cutting taxes and plagiarizing Pierre's plan.  We all know he's lying on the right, and the left knows it too or they wouldn't vote for him.

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Salvation after destruction of the body?

 Reading in 1 Corinthians, there's a part where St. Paul says to let Satan destroy the body so that they person would be saved on the Day of the Lord.  So, I was thinking:  Does this mean that one can be saved after death?  Is that heretical to ask?

Hmmm.....

Interesting:  Thomas Keating says that the charismatic gifts of the Spirit are emotionally addictive and can be a distraction, an impediment, to our spiritual development. 

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A phrase from liturgy struck me this weekend, first born of all creation.  It didn't sit well; if Jesus is eternal, how can He be first born?  Unless, maybe Sam Shamoun is right in that the term first born means something different in context.  King David was not the oldest.

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Psalm 127-128 NIV - A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless - Bible Gateway

As I listen to the monks chant psalms 127 to 128 today, I wondered; is God blessing me for doing some of the right things?  My daughter and wife surround me, I have been richly blessed with money, a home, a nice car.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20127-128&version=NIV

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1 cor 8 NIV - Concerning Food Sacrificed to Idols - Bible Gateway

My Evangelical brothers and sisters are still hung up on the idea that gays go to Hell.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20cor%208&version=NIV

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Psalms 124:7 NIV - We have escaped like a bird from the - Bible Gateway

Is this a reference to being free from the law?

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalms%20124%3A7&version=NIV

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Psalms 19:12 NIV - But who can discern their own errors? - Bible Gateway

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalms%2019%3A12&version=NIV

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Molech

Jordan Peterson said something once that I think is important to share here. He said that if you read something from an author or intellectual that you disagree with, you shouldn't throw out all their thoughts. You should be able to accept the good thing that they say that you do agree with while rejecting the bad. Some points that I made as I make my way through the video: • First, politics do not belong in the Church (be apart from the world) • The book of Romans has women in authority in the Church • Do we know why Jesus only chose men? Was it simply because culture would have thwarted their ministry otherwise? • The woke left male priests that I've encountered are far more disturbing than the women (two of whom really tried not to be political from the pulpit) • Seminaries (in my own personal observations) no longer produce conservative clergy (don't assume it is women), and • Correlation does not prove causation (women, or is it seminaries?) • Institutions of higher learning have an imbalance of woke vs. conservative thought/leadership • St. Paul may have said for women to be silent because of culture, but society now worships Gaia and Molech, and • The Church tries too hard to be culturally relevant

Relationship

According to Fr. William OSB the prayer for other, intercessory prayer, binds us to those that we pray for.  It is an interesting concept.

Gal 3

Paul does what many modern Christian appoligists do, he goes to the Hebrew and says what one seed means.  He also makes a point about the law being only to show us what is bad....

Be Ready

Long familiar with the phrase *like a thief in the night*, tonight I'm stopping to ponder 1 Thessalonians 5's remark about being ready.  Jesus will return lime a thief in the night, yet we should not be caught unprepared as we are believers of the faith.

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Cum

So, there are contemporary Muslim scholars who misunderstand what it means when the scriptures say that The Holy Spirit came upon Mary.  To them, it is both offensive and proof that God did not become incarnate of The Virgin Mary.  How could God do something so repugnant.  But, as Sam Shamoun points out, if you think with a filthy mind, that is how you will interpret the scriptures; they've confused the word come with the word cum.

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Perspective

So, I always had trouble with (misunderstood?) how Jesus could be begotten by God; if Jesus is eternal, uncreated, how could He be begotten?  As I move further to the right on the Arianism spectrum in my faith and understanding--much of which was formed in a United Church basement Sunday School--I've come to understand the Mystery of the Trinity a little better, the nature of Christ a little better.  Moving away somewhat from Demonology and toward Christology maybe, Christ's nature is a little more clear to me now than in years past.  Part of that is in my exploration of Apologetics toward Islam; previously, I had focused on Atheism.  Getting to the point, I've considered a new perspective.  If Nestorianism is wrong, and if Jesus is fully man and fully God, then God could have begotten His fully human nature, and Christ is still eternal.  I hope that isn't heresy to suggest.  Do we need to figure all this out?  No.  All we have to do is confess that Jesus is Lord and that He was raised from the dead.

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When you pray, pray toward the temple

When King Solomon built the first temple to The LORD in Jerusalem, II Chronicles says that Solomon asked God to hear those who prayed toward the temple.  And, Solomon said that God's presence was in the temple.

I see the parallels here with Christ.  We pray toward the temple that Christ Jesus rebuilt (the 3rd temple?), for God's presence is in that very temple.

Hmmm...

In Romans Ch 11, the writer (St. Paul) said that the Jews won't accept Christ as the Messiah until the last of the Gentiles come to him.