tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50312949905191974492024-02-20T02:57:48.337-05:00“PENSEES”Thoughts About Life and FaithRicky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.comBlogger306125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-25576160758893826252021-01-22T07:25:00.001-05:002021-01-22T07:25:50.438-05:00<p> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The difference between Social Justice Christianity and classic Creedal Christianity is this:</span></span></p><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="" dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc e5nlhep0 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_6e" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 4px 16px;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Social Justice Christianity begins with "justice," as God's primary and core attribute; and then leverage God (on this basis) to their Social Justice cause...</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Human concepts of justice, legitimized through limited human extrapolations of what a "Just" God is...</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">For them, "The Gospel" IS "Justice;" and necessarily means the installation of their version of that justice for all of humanity.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Classic Creedal Christianity begins with God and His nature as fully revealed in Christ; from which we must derive, submit and comport our nature to His...</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The whole of Christ's attributes and nature, are what inform us to be transformed into His likeness [eikon]...</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Gospel in classic creedal Christianity means that: 1. Christ has come to save (sṓzō) us from the dangers of our brokenness, depravity and judgment, brought on by "the fall;" 2. To restore (katartizó) the whole of humanity (making our nature Christlike) and all of creation, as well. </span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Scripture:</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">21 Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Acts 3:21</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">10 and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image [Eikon] of the One who created him-</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Col 3:10</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">29 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image [Eikon] of His Son...</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; 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IS. <br /><br />Right "Doing" doesn't always mean right "Being."<br /><br />But, right "Being" ALWAYS means right "Doing."</span><br />Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-46757816568612418992020-08-06T08:41:00.002-04:002020-08-08T13:28:32.893-04:00Right Being vs. Right Doing<span style="color: white;">If Christians continue to back away... and continue to back away... from Biblical Truths, in order not to offend, at some point who's going to want to hear what we have to say anyway? <br /><br />The thing that makes Christianity truly DISTINCTIVE from all other Faiths in the world, is not just our capacity for Love, but our ability to authentically IMITATE the FULLNESS of Jesus Christ in our lives.<br /><br />The practice (DOING) of Love in the world is not a particularly unique thing in any faith...<br /><br />The genuine and whole expression, of the incarnational presence (BEING), of Christ in us... IS. <br /><br />Right "Doing" doesn't always mean right "Being."<br /><br />But, right "Being" ALWAYS means right "Doing."</span><br />Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-5219875235617567902015-10-05T10:17:00.003-04:002015-10-05T10:17:28.421-04:00God's Primary Means of Judgment<div class="_1dwg" style="padding: 12px 12px 0px;">
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Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-21740280487166354372015-10-05T10:16:00.006-04:002020-09-15T09:33:39.065-04:00Secular Progressivism - A Worldview<span style="color: #fff2cc;">1<div class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><span>
</span></div>. The truth is,<br />Devout Secularists believe<br />Their program for the improvement of Humanity<br />Is far superior to the ideology of any Religion,<br />Including that of the Christian God (Even though historically, the existence of Social Progressivism would be impossible, without the Christian Faith). <br /> <br /> 2. Secular Progressivism (on the whole) is clearly the most aggressive toxic and dominant worldview/ideology within the American Culture today. </span><div><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><br /> 3. Many self-identifying Christians in our Culture today, are in actuality, more akin (at their core) to being Secular Progressvists, with a Christian mantle; rather than being Christian in their core, accompanied with Christ-like parallels to Secular Progressivism (as they like to think). <br /> Remember, the inexorable nature of a worldviews is: "There can be only one."</span></div>Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-82119613249564347502015-10-05T10:13:00.004-04:002015-10-05T10:13:28.205-04:00Choice<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;">An infant is terminated<br />Before they can exercise their choice to live...</span></div>
Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-52765465282846417472015-10-05T10:11:00.005-04:002020-08-08T13:33:55.247-04:00True Salvation in Christ<div style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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There can be no Repentance apart from an encounter with the Holiness of God, through Jesus Christ...</span></div>
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And this is the other side of the proverbial coin about why some deny Jesus Christ...</span></div>
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Still others reject Jesus precisely because they have had an authentic encounter [Charakter];* and the Cost is, quite simply, too great...</span></div>
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Notably, the second one happens far more, than many think.** Especially those who have made a living, by drawing attention to the first...</span></div>
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Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-3625883480985188202015-10-05T10:08:00.002-04:002015-10-05T10:08:29.620-04:00Imputed Righteousness<div style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;">It's blessed but painful cost,<br />regarded apathetically by believers in the Church;<br />and the eternal penalty for its absence, <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />no longer compelling and relevant<br />to the unbelieving world...</span></span></div>
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1 Therefore, since we have been declared RIGHTEOUS by FAITH, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ... (9) since we have now been declared RIGHTEOUS by His BLOOD, we will be saved through Him from wrath.</div>
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Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-7422459182765065652015-10-05T10:06:00.005-04:002015-10-05T10:06:38.714-04:00Why We Need God's Mercy<span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">A life of faith is replete with undulations, fits and starts, hits and misses... </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Which is why Sanctifying Grace is so important... </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Lord, be merciful to us all...</span></span>Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-91263302991979543912015-10-05T10:04:00.001-04:002015-10-05T10:04:32.510-04:00Christian Fundamentalism vs. Christian Social Progressivism in My Life<div style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;">When I look back down the road of almost 30 years of ministry, I can clearly recall beginning it during the cultural height of Christian Fundamentalism.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;">I spent the preponderance of those 30 years seeking to correct the disastrous excesses of Christian Fundamentalism (I.e. pejorative expressions of "biblical truth") by teaching and discipling the Great Doctrine of (Sanctifying) Grace; as well as the vital importance of the authentic witness "in Christ," for<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> the Believer...</span></span></div>
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It was through these two, legitimate and primary expressions of the Christian Faith that I sought sincerely to help establish "The Kingdom of God," and to give Him "Glory."</div>
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But in Retrospect, I believe there were too many times when I over-sold, under-delivered and simplified too much the fullness with which we are to live our lives for Christ...</div>
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And in doing so, probably played no small part with inadvertently misguiding some of those (some of which are on my Facebook friends list) for whom I was responsible for... That is... If I am honest, I gave some instruction and eager permission to commit oneself to be theologically out-of-balance...</div>
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Do I believe there was enough "sufficiency" and "responsible" teaching to fall within the acceptable broad stream of orthodoxy? "Yes..." But could I have done better? Most certainly "YES!"</div>
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So for those who have known me, and may have personally experienced my personal failure in this way, please accept my sincere apologies, and for the sake of Christ, devote yourself to Him in new ways, that will enable you to experience and live for Him in a more thorough and full manner. (James 3:1)</div>
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So, now I find that I am spending a significant amount of time, attempting and dedicated to bringing correction, not only to the imprecision of my woeful past, but also to the unfolding and toxic (a contorted Hegelian Dialectic) "GRACE ONLY," Zeitgeist (1) dominating both the sacred and secular portions of our culture... (2)</div>
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Should the Lord be gracious and kind enough to give me 30 more years in ministry, I can only hope that I achieve a better doctrinal proportionality (via media), than I did before...</div>
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To say the we must Love everyone;<br />
It is equally a great Love<br />
To convey Christ's Truth,<br />
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(1) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FZeitgeist&h=3AQFNjBooAQG1G68fYunO4WuvZ8q4UPP2zAEicy-f6IJw0Q&enc=AZMi2_dTFlet70gwAFbDinrRkxFFf2ry7h22erzRyf7EZLsh78v7guz3xaNcUty88Odmt8dSmaiHn6w8ja-B59CCK1Lm4uDF2qZ6wnaXru0BheoZBgglu-f6r4kOYDJ27dUCoY-C8dxVqUO7AlhK65nUU4f_yEboK3OP_7l4tvFjaAcnA0usHV2UAL7v2akwKkQ&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist</a></div>
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Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-44266579178065266082015-10-05T10:01:00.000-04:002015-10-05T10:01:05.615-04:00Some Differences Between Social Progressivists and Conservatives <div style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
<span style="color: #d9d2e9;">I offer this a bit "tongue in cheek..."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9;">So! If my Social Progressivist friends want to post on social media, articles, videos and personal comments, related to perceived racism, opinions related to poverty and pleas to be open about things like Gay Marriage, that's fine and a cool and responsible thing to do...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d9d2e9;">If someone like myself posts articles, videos and personal comments on things like the selling of aborted baby organs and body parts, media socio-cultural hypocrisy, w<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">orldview issues and government accountability (on a whole range of salient issues)...</span></span></div>
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Then we are cautioned to be more positive, to check our (i.e. cite more responsible) sources and to come to terms with the facts that: 1. We are not as informed/educated, 2. We are not quite as naturally intelligent 3. We have not evolved as much as those who see things more clearly...</div>
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Than the "absolute truth"<br />That there is no "Absolute Truth."</div>
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Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-53972177501662719472015-10-05T09:54:00.003-04:002015-10-05T09:54:25.241-04:00Christians Should Never Disaffirm<div style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
<span style="color: #d9ead3;">A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Future...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d9ead3;">One day we all woke up only to discover, that our highest calling as a society, is to NEVER disaffirm one another's feelings...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d9ead3;">If there is a "sin" then, it is to: "Offend."</span></div>
Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-60415694516800418622015-10-05T09:42:00.004-04:002015-10-05T09:42:47.612-04:00Christian Theological Bifurcations <div style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
<span style="color: #fce5cd;">IMAGINE a World</span></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Where the Person of Jesus Christ and His Gospel<br />Are NEVER perceived as offensive.</span></div>
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Where all Non-Believers<br />Are ALWAYS "Truly Sincere."</div>
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Where the effects of the Fall<br />Resulted EXCLUSIVELY in Human "Brokenness,"<br />And not "Depravity."</div>
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Where the effects of the Fall<br />Resulted EXCLUSIVELY in Human "Depravity,"<br />And not "Brokenness."</div>
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Where Christians who "Fail" the World,<br />Did so, ONLY because they did not demonstrate enough<br />"Love" and "Grace."</div>
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Where Christians who "Fail," the World,<br />Did so ONLY because they did not teach<br />Eternal "Truths" and "Holiness."</div>
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Where insisting on "Christ-likeness"<br />Actually meant ALL of the Attributes Likened to Christ's Nature.</div>
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You would have to IMAGINE it,<br />Because in REALITY,<br />It doesn't exist...</div>
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Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-65938045271511999452015-10-05T09:39:00.003-04:002015-10-05T09:39:26.258-04:00A Kingdom vs. The Kingdom - Buildings Before Ministry<div class="_1dwg" style="padding: 12px 12px 0px;">
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It is rather amazing<br />How a pastor's "biblical" theology<br />Can be magically shaped and inspired <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />By a newly constructed edifice,<br />With large mortgage payments*</span></div>
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So much so, that 3,500 years of Judeo-Christian teaching can be driven and over-turned, by a mere 35 years of Secular Progressive challenges...</div>
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It can give a whole new meaning<br />For the Church as a "non-prophet" organization...</div>
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What you are in bondage with<br />You will seek to enslave others to</div>
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6 The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him. 7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.…</div>
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Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-6412126166397883792015-10-05T09:37:00.001-04:002015-10-05T09:37:22.256-04:00Christian Subjectivism<div style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<span style="color: lime;">Quite simply, there just isn't much light between the prevailing (trendy) practice of "christian" subjectivism (1) and humankind's ancient and inexorable evolution towards self-deification.</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime;">(1) The "heart" as our sole authority for humanity to follow God</span></div>
Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-20834767900202022572015-10-05T09:35:00.003-04:002015-10-05T09:35:58.699-04:00Celebrating July 4th<span style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><br /><span style="color: yellow;">In every way that our Sovereign God, led and influenced our Founding Fathers, in the establishment of any goodness and greatness as a nation, as well as the benefits and blessings from it, and that we and the world have enjoyed, let us heartily and joyfully remember and celebrate that this day!</span></span>Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-35568082262055626202015-07-07T11:40:00.002-04:002015-07-07T11:40:30.962-04:00Christ-Likeness and Rejection From the World<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;">"Cognitive Dissonance" for many sincere Christians
seeking to be authentically Christlike, is the reality: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;">"That you can do, and be, everything right; that Christ
would have you do, and be; and yet the World will still reject what you do and
are; as well as Christ..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;">Many times, these sincere Christians would simply rather
universally blame their own Fellow Believers, Christian Tradition and/or
perceived, outmoded Biblical Theology... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;">Jesus also said this: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;">If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do
not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why
the world hates you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd;">– John 15:18-19</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-41152128144223116852015-07-07T11:37:00.004-04:002015-07-07T11:37:56.072-04:00Contemporary Dissension Within The Church<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Notably, the primary and great issue of DISSENSION </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">within
the Church today, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">ironically enough happens to be: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">"What does it mean for
a Christian to be "Christlike?" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">And... therein lies our problem... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">1 Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk
in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, 2 with all
humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in
love, 3 being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of
peace.…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Eph. 4:1-3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">21 [I pray Father] that they may all be one; even as You,
Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world
may believe that You sent Me. 22 "The glory which You have given Me I have
given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6;">John 17:21-22</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-88052136406297462042015-07-07T11:35:00.002-04:002015-07-07T11:35:39.210-04:00Subjectivism and Chaos<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">CHAOS: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">When EVERYONE, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">with their respective ideology and worldview, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">are affirmed and afforded </span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">the opportunity to treat those ideologies and worldviews</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">as a unifying
singularity... ***<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">In the end: "There Can Be Only One..." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">*** sin·gu·lar·i·ty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">ˌsiNGɡyəˈlerədē/<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">noun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">the state, fact, quality, or condition of being singular.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">"he believed in the singularity of all cultures"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">synonyms: uniqueness, distinctiveness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9;">"the singularity of their concerns..."</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-30098119135904717762015-07-07T11:23:00.002-04:002015-07-07T11:23:38.594-04:00SCOTUS: We Must Obey God Rather Than Man<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">"...We must obey God rather than man."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Acts 5:29<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">A decade ago Governmental sanction and mandate for Gay
Marriage, to be lawfully recognized, had all the appearances of a
insurmountable bastion... As of today there is nothing left but the crumbled
and smoldering ruins of that sentiment. This new precedent sets the stage for
the next assault by the Over-Culture and Social Progressivist Cultural Elites,
for this same Mandate to be recognized, followed and enforced, by ALL people,
in all places and at all times... Understand, it won't happen tomorrow, but it
will happen... And when it does, it will only have become possible because of
SCOTUS' decision on Gay Marriage yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Right now you will hear from some "Social (Biblical?!)
Social Justice Christians" and many Social Progressives say pejoratively:
"There, there, [regardless how 'hateful' and 'intolerant'] your beliefs
and practices on this issue are safe and unassailable... The Constitution
protects you..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Look, Presidents come and go, the Legislative Branch
"evolves," and the ideological makeup of SCOTUS Justices change...
It's simply naive and pollyannic to believe anything to the contrary... We are
in the midst of an inexorable, winner-take-all, worldview battle, that is being
won through duplicity, intimidation and sheer will and grit... In addition, as
long as they have time, and we lack conviction and resolve, they will win...
So, Gird your loins...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">If the state eventually moves to coerced marriages for
churches on behalf of the LGBTQ demographic, then we will move to a
"Matrimonial Blessing Ceremony," following their marriage being
solemnized by the state. For many Christians then in view of the Laws of the
state and the Laws of God, it will become a two tiered process. The state will
legally officiate (we will remove ourselves completely from this equation) the
heterosexual marriage and our church will perform the Christian Blessing of it.
Our part will not be legally binding, but for many who choose to participate,
it will be for them, spiritually binding... Thus, for many of these believers,
this two part process, will equate in their hearts, the completion of their
matrimonial responsibilities. But I, as well as others like me, will no longer
officiate a state sanctioned marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Understand, I recognized that we live in a post-christian
world, they can believe and practice as they see fit, but it does not follow
that I/we have to assist them. Nor should we be forced to do so...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">"...We must obey God rather than man."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Acts 5:29<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Let's be clear...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">The Over-Culture is saying: "If you (simply) BELIEVE
that homosexuality etc. is wrong and sinful, you are not being loving and
tolerant."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">(Most) Christians who disagree with Homosexuality etc. ARE
saying: "We love authenticity those who embrace homosexuality etc. but we
still believe it to be wrong and sinful."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">This is much of the battle line; and one of which has become
inherently obfuscated... Intentionally so by some, and arrived at in an
undisciplined fashion by others...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">The inability for many Christians to grasp this vital
distinction is mind-numbing... and I have to believe largely because of their
blind, unwitting and subjective immersion in Social Progressivist ideology.
Note: If, in the 1980's, it was inappropriate for Conservative Christians to be
too friendly with Political Conservatives, it is most certainly inappropriate
(even dire) for Social Justice Christians to be bosom buddies with Social
Progressives. Both entities are inherently political.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">One of the great victories of Social Progressivism within
the church, is to pit the attributes of God, against each othet. E.g. Love vs.
Truth; Grace vs. Holiness etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Finally, the issue writ large is really much bigger than
just whether homosexuality and gay marriage is right or wrong. It is being used
quite effectively as a "wedge issue" to alienate and delegitimize the
Historic-traditional Christian community from the culture...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Christ-likeness means more than just "Grace,"
"Love, and "(social) "Justice;" It ALSO means obedience,
righteousness and holiness... (Matt 5:18-19). Again, What Social Progressivism
and Social Justice Christians have done so well, that is so demonic, is to pit
the attributes of God against themselves...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">Yesterday's SCOTUS decision was a watershed issue, and a
MAJOR victory for the Social Progressivist UNFOLDING AGENDA, that will begin to
dramatically change the course of Christian Faith and Practice permanently...
It's not about whether we love those who think and practice their sexuality
differently than us; but rather whether Christians will be permitted to believe
and practice what they have done in a 3 thousand year old tradition... Make no
mistake…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">An important caveat to my earlier post regarding "Same
Sex Marriage." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">1. When our culture was dominated by the Judaeo-Christian
world-view some decades ago there was in our representational form of
government, a compelling and legitimate, "legal" argument against
Same-Sex Marriage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">2. Today, ideologically, we live in a "Post
Judaeo-Christian" culture; with the dominate worldview being that of
"Social Progressivism." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">3. Writ large (and this is very complicated) but on the
whole, I don't believe that inherently Christian values should be forced
legislatively/judicially; or imposed upon a non-Christian people (even if I
believe they are better and more healthy); particularly when, through their
value structure, they are clearly and openly rejecting them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">4. Importantly, I don't believe that issues like Same Sex
Marriage can or should be argued as an inalienable Civil Right, but rather from
a representational point of view. If theologically Conservative Christians are
going to change the Culture (missionally) then it must be done predominately
from the HEART, in theirs as well as others... Christians changed polygamy in
other cultures historically, not because they changed laws, but rather because
through them, Christ changed their hearts...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">5. However, issues represented by the Majority, should not
be license for silencing and punishing the Minority (historically this has
happened from both sides). Currently the standard practice of conflating
sincere and authentic dissent synonymously with "hate" and
"intolerance," is quite simply intellectually dishonest and
manipulative...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">6. Reality: In terms of their final ideological outcomes,
Social Progressivism and Christianity (as well as other faiths - not the least
of which is Islam), are quite simply mortal enemies... The former seeks to
worship an evolving "man-god," while the other seeks to worship a
God, who would make (the faithful and obedient) man, like Him...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">7. There are two great chasms emerging, (even as I write
this, that are becoming deeper, wider and longer), within our culture between:
A. Historic-Creedal-Theologically Conservative Christianity and the Culture
ideologically dominated by Social Progressivists; B.
Historic-Credal-Theologically Christianity and Christians who have syncretized
and blended themselves with Social Progressivist Ideology.*** <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">8. Long Range Prognosis for the culture as it pertains to
all sides, for so many different and complex reasons... Very Poor... "Gird
Your Loins..." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">9. Read Ephesians 6... In regards to the
"Over-Culture," It explains sooo much... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">10. Regardless of what the sin and who the sinner,
Christians are called to be obedient when it comes to loving one another,
EXACTLY in the fullness, like Christ does and would. There can be no variance
or vacillation on this principle... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8;">***Usually through highly selective reading of scripture, as
well as privileging certain attributes of Christ against other attributes of
Christ. I.e. Christ-likeness means only the exercise of his (e.g.) Love vs His
Truth; Grace (Tolerance) vs. His Holiness; Kindness vs. His Law (I.e. A matrix
of antinomianism and autonomianism).</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-9591975773912049922015-07-07T11:15:00.003-04:002015-07-07T11:15:34.764-04:00Arguing for "Grace"<div class="fsm">
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">IRONY: Arguments for "Grace" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">In a spirit of patronizing self-righteousness...</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-8537023642811003852015-07-07T11:12:00.001-04:002015-07-07T11:12:35.181-04:00The Symbiotic Nature of God's Love and Truth<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">It is a great Truth <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">To say the we must Love everyone; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">it is equally a great Love <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">To convey Christ's Truth, to all as well...</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Ricky... http://www.blogger.com/profile/06034571820861160284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031294990519197449.post-63301391067091473252015-07-07T11:09:00.003-04:002015-07-07T11:09:54.989-04:00Subjectivism and Truth: If Truth "Offends," Then It Cannot Be Truth! <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">The culture's prevailing moral arguments, regardless of
existing authoritative sources; and how they are conveyed:*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">1. "If 'The Truth' offends,**<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">then it cannot be Truth!" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">Further...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">2. "The Truth that "offends," is: ALWAYS
judgmental, ungracious, hateful, unloving and un-Christlike...." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">Finally...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">3. "Therefore, the ONLY Truths, that are Truly True
(and good), are the ones that most affirm the inner perceptions of ourselves;
and our perception of any reality outside of ourselves..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">.........................<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">* (Even) Lovingly, Graciously, Kindly, Honestly...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">** (Subjectively) Hurts feelings, Disaffirms, Causes Angst,
Discourages...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">Consider:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">...Christ's "Christlikeness" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the
earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">35 For I have come to turn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">“‘a man against his father,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">a daughter against her mother,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">36 a man’s enemies will be the members of his own
household.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">37 “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is
not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not
worthy of me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">38 Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not
worthy of me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">39 Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses
their life for my sake will find it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">Matthew 10:34-39 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">(Context: Matthew 10:16-39)</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;">Quite simply, there just isn't much light between the prevailing (trendy) practice of "christian" subjectivism (1) and humankind's ancient and inexorable evolution towards self-deification.<br /><br />(1) The "heart" as our sole authority for humanity to follow God</span></div>
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