For many believers, the question of why they struggle with sin is a hard one. But I say it is easy to explain: all you need are attributes. By contemplating the attributes of God you can arrive at holiness. By failing to have a proper doctrine of them, one falls into the wheel and woe of sinfulness.
An example of such can be found from Genesis 3:8 (English Standard Version):
And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Here, Adam and Eve fail to understand God’s attribute of omniscience. Likes babes they believed that God was embodied and limited in sense. Their hiding among the trees only reveals their staggering ignorance that God knew where they were at all times. They also failed to understand that God was omnipresent and is so even in the tormented faces of hell.
If only they had meditated on these truths they would have avoided the Fall.
I heard about a guy who told his kids when they asked him who loved more, mom or them, he said mom. Good for him. The Bible says that husbands should love their wives like Christ loves the church. It doesn’t say that about kids… I can see how it would be a tough question though. It’s kind of like infra vs. supralapsarianism, where it’s more of a logical difference than quantitative.
Seriously, I gotta rant… Why does the government have to involve itself at ALL in coal mines, sweat shops, etc? I mean, those workers are CHOOSING to work there. It’s very different from slavery, where there is no choice. Here, the choice is to work in a tough environment and make a little money or not work and make no money and starve.
The free market is the solution to poverty. If a man will not work he will not eat.
Hey sheep, Ninja here. Been gone for awhile. I had to go into hiding after doing the hard work of exposing Rick Warren. After such a hard-hitting piece of reporting, I thought I better law low for some time. Don’t want to attract the wrong kind of attention. I really hate those watchbloggers out there that keep tabs on noble men of God…
Anyway, I thought I would post something a little lighter today: about things I hate. You want to know what I hate? Florida.
Just look at how stupid it is. It looks like a big loogie dripping off the chin of the continental USA. Also, Miss Florida isn’t very pretty.
You wann know what else I hate? The butterfly ballot. I so got screwed by that thing. Some place, somewhere there is a hanging chad that was counted in favor of Pat Buchanan. Ok, I admit the ballot served me well–that’s who I voted for–but I still hate Florida.
Hey everybody. Ninja here. I’ve been in hidding for awhile now because things have been a little hot around the lair. False prophets don’t like people of discernment, I always say. The truth is I’ve been sitting on something big, and when I say big I mean BIG. You all know about apostate Rick Warren and his Sattleback of love for social justice right? How he wants to bring his seeker-sensitive church to Rwanda and cure everyone of the sin of HIV? Well you wanna know what I heard? Pagan liberal politician Barack Obama wants him to be his running mate.
Now I know what you’re thinkging… What are you thinking, Ninja? That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard of. Well let me tell you how I know: The Bible. And this infallible Sumerian-English Gematria Calculator calculator that deciperhs the “Bible Code.” Based upon this letter to number calculator using a factor of six, the letter ‘a’ represents the number 6, the letter ‘b’, the number 12, the letter ‘c’, the number 18, and so on. Using this system, if you enter in ‘OBAMAWARREN’, you get 666! No joke, this is true. And from this truth it follows that Obama, who is the anti-Christ, will pick Rick Warren to be his running mate.
So it looks like pagan Hollyweird is making another movie about the Bible. Blasphemous. Don’t they realize that by calling a man (“Evan”) the “Almightly” they are deifying man and bringing God low? What would you expect, though, from Hollyweird?
I’ll tell you what I wouldn’t expect. I wouldn’t expect professing Christians to go see this movie. I know, I know some people think it is a matter of conscience–a gray area. But this is not a gray area. This is not a matter of conscience. This is a matter of obedience. Many of the movies Christians like have someone at sometime in the film taking the Lord’s name in vain, i.e. Spiderman, Harry Potter, Bruce, Evan and dare I say the “Christians all-time favorite”… the Princess Bride.
By watching these films you have put entertainment over the command of God! That is sin, plan and simple. We, as professing believers are doing a shameful job of representing Christ to the world.
Lots of people ask me, “Hey Ninja, how do you come to your conclusions about what’s proper to do in a worship service?” To which I reply, “Silly grasshopper, I use the Bible. Sola Scriptura!”
For those of you that have never heard of the Regulative Principle let me enlighten you: If it isn’t in the Bible it is absolutely forbidden. Do you see microphoned being used in Paul’s churches? No dice. Do you see a church office called “worship leader?” Nope. Did the Galatians use instruments in their meetings? The Bible doesn’t say they did and neither should we.
Now I know what you might be saying, “Hey Ninja, I thought we were supposed to worship in spirit and truth,” Well duh, but that didn’t stop God from giving the Law to the Israelites now did it? Yeah, I know those sacrifices aren’t needed anymore and that we are under the New Covenant, but the deal is God wanted things done a certain way. That’s exactly how it works in the NT too. If it doesn’t say it, don’t do it. If you do, you might be damned.
