Christians have taken God’s standards and lowered them to fit their own standards. This is a dangerous and precarious position to take. If we take a different standard other than God’s standard and apply it to our lives, we will not be in a position to repent of particular sins in our lives for we do not view it as a sin. This does not imply one has no salvation or has lost their salvation but simply means that we have left God’s standard behind and apply our own standard….
May 13
Saturday Reblog: God’s Standards
Apr 28
Faith in our Church Leaders?
How much faith or trust should we have in our pastors or teachers? That was the question that came to mind as I was watching a Dateline episode. The show was about daycare centers. The show was featuring problems with some of these centers. For instance, one daycare owner had been arrested for leaving young children in the van. In another case, a child tragically lost his life due to the neglect of the owner of the center. While I am not going to go through all the cases presented in the show, one thing struck me and that was the trust parents place in these childcare centers even AFTER they are informed of some of the problems that these centers have let alone even bothering to investigate on their own before placing their children in the care of strangers. One owner of a childcare center was arrested and placed on probation for child neglect yet she was still able to gain a license and run a childcare center. Dateline interviewed one mother who continued to use this childcare center after being informed of the arrest and the reason for the arrest. The mother stated that she will continue to use the daycare center. Why? She stated that she trusted that the government was doing its job and would not grant a license to run a childcare center if they were not qualified. I was absolutely baffled. How could a parent leave the care of their child to a person who was arrested for child neglect? Was she crazy? As I watched, I actually thought to myself that I would not trust her to care for my animals and yet parents are actually trusting her to watch and care for their children.
Apr 11
Expressions from the Bible
I wrote a post back in 2009 titled Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities that has apparently generated some controversy. The controversy is over the use of Voltaire’s statement in a context other than how he used it. In other words, since Voltair used the statement “those who can make you believe absurdities can you commit atrocities” in the context of anti-Christianity, then that is the only way that it should be used. I thought I would write a post instead of answering each and every email that is sent to me. First, there is no grammatical rule that requires that we use a phrase exactly as originally penned as long as the contextual usage is appropriate. Of these emails that I have received, each and every one of these people are more than likely native English speakers. As such, many of the common phrases that we use come directly from the Bible and are NOT used in the exact context that they were originally used. In researching for this post, I learned that many of the phrases that we use come directly from the bible. I did not realize that there were so many phrases that we borrowed from the bible and use in our everyday language. I am listing a few below.
“Twinkling of an eye” originated in 1 Corinthians 15:52. We use this idiom in our modern language to mean “very quickly.” When originally used in the Bible, it was used in the context of an instant
I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
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