Randometric Inspiration

This is from the article today on AiG, a piece is quoted below, as part of s series of articals on Evolution. The articles which are open to read are worth the attention of a Christian as it applies to us all whether you think it does or not. While it started off as a discission and rebuttal to Evolution, it has come to my attention that such values found in the base nature of evolution now permiate our society and the understanding of the average person. So much so that it sets me to indignation when I think about it and the damage being done, damage that is on the rise. Anyway, long story short here is a clip of the article that I felt the need to post, not for its technical merit but for its accuracy on the topic without being longwinded. (The whole article can be found here.)

Quote:"People often make the statement: “If there is so much evidence that God created the world and sent a global cataclysmic flood, then surely all scientists would believe this." The solution is given here in 2 Peter 3 (See below). It is not simply a matter of providing evidence to convince people, for people do not want to be convinced. We read in Romans 1:20 that there is enough evidence to convince everyone that God is Creator, so much so that we are condemned if we do not believe. Furthermore, Romans 1:18 tells us that men “suppress the truth in unrighteousness.” It is not a matter of lack of evidence to convince people that the Bible is true; the problem is that they do not want to believe the Bible. The reason for this is obvious. If people believed in the God of the Bible, they would have to acknowledge His authority and obey the rules He has laid down. However, every human being suffers from the same problem—the sin which Adam committed in the Garden of Eden—a “disease” which we all inherit. Adam’s sin was rebellion against God’s authority. Likewise, people everywhere today are in rebellion against God, so to admit that the Bible is true would be an admission of their own sinful and rebellious nature and of their need to be born again by cleansing through the blood of Christ."

2 Pet. 3:3–7 "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men."

After reading the whole article and a few others of late I felt a little itch and wanted to express it. Out came this poem, flawed in grammar and form, but still a poem...

Unbelief in sight and deed passed down in sons and daughters,
by wrath it once was set free with most abounding waters.

Both sky and age move by like the stream - only to propose,
that one can find the truth of God within a tiny rose.

Though the wise men sit aloft safe up in ivory spires,
yet judgment is to welcome them and place them in the fires.

Please do not offer up yourself my friend - into that burning pool,
but seek the rose and bloody thorns yet even as a fool.

Truth lays bare before all of creation which dares to gaze above,
it is my heart that beats in sync to my hope, my life, my love.

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So, yea, I just wanted to share that. Their will be more on the way, but things are insane right now. If this post has been influential given the topic, please keep in mind the call of Peter listed below.

2 Pet. 3:11–12 “Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God”.

A secret violation

I am next to tears tonight, wondering honestly how much more of this world I have to witness.

Having sat through the remainder of the "Secret" (a pantheistic new age belief circulating currently) I was made aware of the shear depth of the disillusionment which is vomited up into view. Granted it saves the very best for last (I say with distain and sarcasm) it is nothing more than a new age pantheistic (god is everything because god it energy and everything is energy, theirfore you and the rock next to you are god.) belief. A hodge podge of pseudoscience (essentially fake-science) and a spiritual attempt to gather people under a form of unity through promises of many things.

Is this why I am wounded? Not exactly. What breaks me down is that tonight, as a family (spiritualy divided) gets together it was inevitable that the topic would come up. It is also inevitable that some would take to it's offers, as flies to poo. What was not expected is that certain persons within my family who are Christ-followers would also take to it. Granted these two were not the most weary of false promises, I had been prepared to stand against the opposite camp...not my own camp as well! To make matters so very much worse it was the patriarch of the family and his wife that were unable to discern the truth from the lie and so they pushed it more than its original advocates. By this point (utterly disgusted) I was only able to go to war, not a fruitful discussion, and so I sat listening and waiting and pretending to read my school book.

To top it all off not one person asked me what I thought (nearly the only one not asked) and so to bring it up would have been done so in a strictly offensive stance. While that might have still been the right thing to do their were a series of factors in play that made me think otherwise. Including the celebration of the Secrets original advocates birthday. The only solace I take from the night is that I was able to face it with tears and not fists (metaphorical and otherwise), a rarity for me on such a topic.

So while I pray tonight that the spirit move in me and my family I will also be praying for the redemption and correction of those few we might lose to the deceiver. Two elders and possibly a young girl who cares greatly for what they belive.

I know I'm young, but in moments like these I only want to go home. That He hasn't taken me yet only means their is more in store. So be it I suppose, but I'm weary of this violation. My bags are packed so to speak.