The top 5 heroes of all time?how am I supposed to write
about that? MCF is having another blog party and I?m supposed to bring
something that has an Archive flavor (quiet, not old and stuffy!). Trying this
after the Best Movie of All Time fiasco?
It bolsters my faith looking at the prophecies that Jesus fulfilled in
his sayings and actions while here on earth. His exactness, for
instance, of acquiring a donkey to ride into Jerusalem is astounding. I
find that my mind has a hard time wrapping around the miracles which
Jesus performed, sometimes stating them by habit but then when thinking
about it, feeling completely overwhelmed. A man blind from birth having
his eyes completely healed…almost as if they were recreated.
The heathen rages and the ethical atheist stand on a (supposed) moral
high ground showing how the God of the Bible is the cause of some of
the worse evils imaginable. They stand there pointing their fingers
saying that there is no God, there is no Christ, your faith is in vain.
You want us to believe? In the light of all this evil around us, fine,
show us your God. Show us then we’ll believe. Does the Lord have to
answer? Has He answered or how will He?
I can’t stand book reviews. Nah, that’s not right—I can’t stand
personal book reviews. Wait, that’s not right either…I can’t stand
personal book reviews which are so blindly biased that they ignore what
the author is saying and think that a book is nightmarishly bad because
they don’t agree with it. Okay, that sounds about right.
In this portion I will keep using the Hebrew names for continuity.
We get to a verse now that is largely taken out of context. I don’t know if you’ve heard it but it goes something like “A person who doesn’t believe God can’t personally believe God and can’t even please God because they are in the flesh. They are carnal and the carnal mind is hostile toward God for it does not subject itself to the Law of God (Rom 8:8).” Thing is, Sha’ul is still defending God’s righteousness in the believer’s mind and is currently dealing with the death wrought by sin through the power of the Law versus the newness of life found in the Spirit. The carnality spoken of here is still in context of that which is wrought through the law, which pertains to the flesh.