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Scroggy82
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| E. Stanley Jones melted my brain today. Basically he was talking about the reality of the Kingdom of God and it's laws. He was talking about the second greatest commandment "love your neighbor as yourself" and how it is realism and not idealism. He said try breaking it, try being hateful to your neighbors or indifferent to your neighbors, and see what happens. you get no relationships or broken relationships. The laws of the universe work against you. now love you neighbor and see what happens, you have relationships, community, friends. it works. sorry, it just freaked me out. it really is a description of reality. to go against the Kingdom is to be unreal. peas out
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Hinduism is exclusive in its caste system. Only the Brahmin are holy and the outcastes/lowercastes used to drink the water that the Brahmin would wash their feet in just to be holier. Karma is exclusive in that it punishes some and blesses others. The gods, all 300 million of them, have exclusive rules and requirements to be their followers. and as Michael said, differing views cannot both be true. and even if you assert that they can indeed both be true you are telling me that EITHER you can be right in saying "both are true" OR i am right in saying "one is true." You cannot get around the exclusivity of any belief system that claims to be true!
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| so many times in my mind i argue or debate with myself about stuff that i have already reached a conclusion on. often, its to give myself a theological, logical, philosophical shot in the arm. every now and again, i walk away with something more than an inflated ego. sometimes, i have a spare minute (or just quit trying to be on time to the 68,763,135,765,643 things i have to do in a given week) and get to talk to someone about the idiocy that is swimming between my ears. so here's to sam, danny, jason, colton; and anyone else that got covered in my verbal vomit.
A common objection to Christianity is, "Why would a good God only make one way to reach Him?" Now first, my reply would be that all religions are exclusive except for Baha'i, but those are guys are just plain weird. Even scientology is exclusive, you have to be like a level 4 Theon before you get to be blasted through the energy cannon on the dark side of mars, or something to that effect. (i swear i am barely making this stuff up!) So why level this accusation against Christianity alone? Secondly, truth by its very nature is exclusive. Why don't mathematicians deal with stuff? I mean why does 2+2 only have one answer? because truth is exclusive. If you have something that is true, then by its very nature you have something that is not true. We can take this a step further, existence is exclusive. If something exists, then there is something that is NOT that thing. Now, where as truth has an equal and opposite, false, existence does not. Existence has an opposite but not an equal. The opposite of the screen that you are reading this on could be any number of things, but it is not necessarily its equal. This is why Christianity is exclusive. Primarily because it is true, and also because God's plan to reconcile man after the rebellion involved Him existing as a Person. Christ is indeed exclusive because He is a man, and therefore, there can be only one way to reconciliation. So, if Christianity is exclusive it is doubly so because it is true and the person of Christ exists, but it is also knowable, for men are made for relationship and truth is understandable. I love that everything comes back to the person of Christ.
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| so back in high school i used to wrestle. say what you want about the sport and all its homo-erotic nuances, but i was good at it. i remember one week, we had just been given what they called "growth allowance" where they add two pounds to the weight class, so in theory, you could add a little weight. in real life this meant everyone dropped down another weight class. i had already dropped twenty pounds to get to 125, and i was struggling to get to 119-plus-two. I showed up to practice the day before a meet and we all weighed in, and i was over. My coach made me put on an extra pair of sweats (bringing the total up to three pairs) in addition to a weight vest. I also had the joy of working with the 152,180, and 189 guys. After practice i put on an additional jacket, changed my shoes, and went out and ran 5 miles. I was tired. I don't think that i have ever been that exhausted since. My coach never doubted that i could handle it. He pushed me farther than i thought i could go. That was a turning point for me, after that, i knew that i was at the very least tougher than the man that would stand across from me on saturdays. I feel like this is where i am spiritually. The Lord is straining me to my wits end emotionally and physically. But in this, i have resorted to more prayer than ever before. I have no time to rely on good books and large amounts of time reading, worshiping, and praying. If anything the small amounts of time that i do get feel like i am sneaking away to meet with Him. I have to really discipline my emotions and beat my body into submission, otherwise my flesh takes over and the salty spring gushes forth. At work when i get tired or angry for any number of reasons, i have to focus, catch myself, and pray, "Lord, i am angry, tired, and frustrated, but i want to be a light and a witness to everyone and i cannot do it without You." he answers. Today, things are not going the way i want them to. Tomorrow, things may not go the way i want them to. But on the Third Day, my Joy and my Hope will rise. Sufferings may persist today, maybe tomorrow, but on the Third Day, the Answer will come.
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| have you ever been at one of those points in your life when you are knocked around so much that you pause and think, "this is unreal." then things get worse. i love those times. i call it the "scroggins family curse" but i don't know if curse is the right word. i can't help but laugh when things go from bad to worse. its like the world is taking its shots at us and beating us into a bloody pulp and all i can do is laugh because i know something that they don't. or rather someone. i know who stands at my back. when He was at his most broken and beaten was when He overcame it all. so i say pile it on. that way i can rejoice all the more at how my Savior carries me. He is Christ the Victor not christ the victim.
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