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.