Living like a demon does not make one a saint, any more than swimming through sewage teaches you to fly!
Living like a demon does not make one a saint, any more than swimming through sewage teaches you to fly!
It is sad to say that many in the Church do not fear the Lord. God is imagined as some mild and tolerant Mr. Rogers-like deity , a milquetoast messiah.
We are faced with a prophetic ultimatum.
Sorry I just could not let sleeping dogs lie here.
All the details are often commented on, but I have often been left feeling as empty as the tomb Christ vacated when the sermon is done.
Our minds are not naturally set on things above.
The Church’s response to James Cameron’s brilliant, breathtaking, and dauntless sci-fi epic will mainly fall into one of 2 camps . . . I can almost guarantee that our response will not be the correct one.
Jude admonishes us in his Plutonium-charged weapons-grade epistle that the false prophets are people who “Speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.”
I have seen many of us theological types take doctrine and distort it by magnifying one truth and explaining away another A theologically astute fleshly christian, can often do far more damage than an ignorant fleshly christian.
Most people watching a 5 minute bio on Gilbert Gottfried would never presume they know everything about him, yet we do this with doctrine constantly.