tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post3717514570792244832..comments2024-03-10T10:40:32.319-07:00Comments on Pyromaniacs: What Child is This?Phil Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00649092052031518426noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-62993719288687868672012-03-12T11:01:45.485-07:002012-03-12T11:01:45.485-07:00Matthew: Well said, and I agree completely.
Chris...Matthew: Well said, and I agree completely.<br /><br /><i>Christians need to be involved at the highest levels of cultural influence in all spheres of society. Otherwise, it won't matter what we do in the political arena; the popular will of the people and general trend of other cultural institutions--like the media, the university, the publishing house, film and television, etc.--will overturn any results rather quickly.</i> <br /><br />I couldn't agree more. Our involvement needs to be much <i>more</i> than politics. But not <i>less than</i> politics either.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09049099152698919505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-26367872740831515682012-03-09T17:16:24.813-08:002012-03-09T17:16:24.813-08:00Are you serious Frank?
Kevin Nash, the wrestler, a...Are you serious Frank?<br />Kevin Nash, the wrestler, aka<br />Big Daddy Cool, aka Diesel?<br /><br />How come Scott Hall, aka Razor Ramon, the other half of the NWO tag-team is not involved in this theory? He was always the better half (before his health problems) and way more fun to watch.<br /><br />I think you are pulling my leg, but I'm never sure. Sometimes things that seem just too weird are in fact true, so its hard to know.James Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15701856303572677206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-43028354863472525782012-03-09T10:30:26.305-08:002012-03-09T10:30:26.305-08:00One baby, two mothers...I hope the judge has the ...One baby, two mothers...I hope the judge has the wisdom of Solomon to resolve this dispute!Seeker1https://www.blogger.com/profile/08726570599251872859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-35217238666911760042012-03-09T08:11:06.369-08:002012-03-09T08:11:06.369-08:00Also, contrary to what Rick Brentlinger has assert...Also, contrary to what Rick Brentlinger has asserted, see the material some of us at Triablogue have written about polygamy from an exegetical, patristic and literary standpoint. See <a href="http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/01/polygamy-is-condemned-by-scripture-and.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784922935749497931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-80402785606760795802012-03-09T08:03:03.781-08:002012-03-09T08:03:03.781-08:00John said:
Seeing as though "the law" i...John said:<br /><br /><i>Seeing as though "the law" in Florida is simply made by the representatives of the people of Florida (and thus is a function of politics), is it possible that part of the reason why the law is so confused there is because Christians, often at the advice of their trusted pastors over the past decades, have abandoned politics as a "dirty business" that has nothing to do with the Kingdom of God and is thus a supposed waste of time?</i><br /><br />As I understand it, the gay movement gained a great deal of ground in the years when the Christian Right held heavy influence in politics--here defined as legislative positions. Cultural change at this level involves much more than just voting certain people into office. (Now, maybe you have a more robust vision of political engagement. If so, don't take my comment as necessarily reflective on your position.) I suspect this is the frustration that drives some Christians entirely out of politics (which is just an overreaction to Evangelicals over-playing their political hand). Christians need to be involved at the highest levels of cultural influence in all spheres of society. Otherwise, it won't matter what we do in the political arena; the popular will of the people and general trend of other cultural institutions--like the media, the university, the publishing house, film and television, etc.--will overturn any results rather quickly.Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784922935749497931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-29875812002031783792012-03-09T03:41:16.537-08:002012-03-09T03:41:16.537-08:00Yes. Yes you should.Yes. Yes you should.Merrilee Stevensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12770625841767761025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-71165529774855864102012-03-08T15:07:00.753-08:002012-03-08T15:07:00.753-08:00I have thought for some while that the you Pyro bo...I have thought for some while that the you Pyro boys should create a book compiled from your best blog posts. Then you could put good comments in those neat little boxes or oversized fonts in with the posts.<br />Title: This Blog is a Menace and Must Be Stopped<br />Or title it TookiFu (verification)Magister Stevensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15507216978994361047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-29402957794220917112012-03-08T15:05:53.007-08:002012-03-08T15:05:53.007-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Magister Stevensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15507216978994361047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-81637963086345949542012-03-08T14:14:12.176-08:002012-03-08T14:14:12.176-08:00But bloggers of ill-repute never get book deals.But bloggers of ill-repute <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Wisdom-Proverbs-Dan-Phillips/dp/1934952141" rel="nofollow">never get</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/World-Tilting-Gospel-Embracing-Biblical-Worldview/dp/0825439086" rel="nofollow">book deals</a>.Aaron Snellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08551668915973379312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-46822648310140033082012-03-08T14:09:37.414-08:002012-03-08T14:09:37.414-08:00The law is between a rock and a hard place over th...The law is between a rock and a hard place over this one. A donated sperm and a donated egg make the same contribution. If they fix it for this woman (as the judge wants) then that gives a legal right to any biological father who does not want his baby aborted. This they can not allow. <br /><br />How will they find a way to give legal rights to Lesbians who have no natural way for both to contribute to the make up of a child and deny rights to fathers (albeit irresponsible fathers) who have direct and obvious contributions to that child's being.<br /><br />It's going to take some fancy footwork. I'll be interested to see how they manage it. What will be most interesting is how they keep a straight face when they present the arguments.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01504277207295036311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-20956178397735513542012-03-08T13:31:03.467-08:002012-03-08T13:31:03.467-08:00Maybe I should write a book ...Maybe I should write a book ...FX Turkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16798420127955373559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-90328987592289349852012-03-08T10:30:47.447-08:002012-03-08T10:30:47.447-08:00I confess I'm thinking off the top of my thumb...I confess I'm thinking off the top of my thumbs a little here! I'm not saying that having babies equals glorifying God. I was trying to make it more about the character of God. Why <i>would</i> He command us to do something and yet create us incapable of it--but I suppose that's more about whether one believes people are "born that way." <br /><br />At the same time He commands us to be holy as He is holy (1 Peter 1:16), which IS impossible apart from Christ living in me--the hope of glory. In fact, that passage does seem to be fitting in this context:<br /><br />1 Peter 13-16<br /><br />13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, 15 but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; 16 because it is written, “YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.” <br /><br />and verses 22-24:<br /><br />22 Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, 23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For,<br /><br /> “ALL FLESH IS LIKE GRASS,<br />AND ALL ITS GLORY LIKE THE FLOWER OF GRASS.<br />THE GRASS WITHERS,<br />AND THE FLOWER FALLS OFF,<br />25 BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER.”<br /><br />Anyway Frank, you do an excellent job of engaging the readers here to be transformed by the renewing of our minds...to really think through the implications of an issue, as well as FEEL the weight of sin and its consequences, not just to make judgements. The example you gave is no less painful than if it were a heterosexual couple torn asunder. The only difference is that we as a society have made the first (impossible) scenario possible. <br /><br />Or maybe I just need to take a nap and leave the heavy thinking to others who aren't also sleep deprived!Merrilee Stevensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12770625841767761025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-17691408215766749772012-03-08T09:51:40.166-08:002012-03-08T09:51:40.166-08:00"With someone who knows its wrong and is stru..."With someone who knows its wrong and is struggling - different story. But to the hostile activist - not so much. They need to be met with steel wrapped in velvet."-meanie<br /><br />Such fine balance is needed, isn't it. Well put my brother. Excellent comment in fact.<br /><br />But, then the real time to engage comes along, and man oh man does it ever become a rough road. <br />Yet, we need to be encouraging one another in these truths so that we will better equipped to be light and salt on the wide and broad road, as it intersects the narrow road our Savior has sovereignly placed us upon.donsandshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665794015011057098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-64428795520161014682012-03-08T09:21:24.544-08:002012-03-08T09:21:24.544-08:00I am being serious with the following remark. I ca...I am being serious with the following remark. I can understand an honest desire to not hurt someone needlessly. But as we know from our collective experiences with the Tone Police and the Love Police, we've got to be very careful about not falling into the Sensitivity Police trap. The homosexual rights movement is on full court press, and it really doesn't matter how sensitively you express your traditional, biblical view on homosexuality. You will be vilified as hate personified. <br /><br />That's one reason I'm not inclined to give any ground and just to speak plain Bible truth, letting the chips fall where they may. With someone who knows its wrong and is struggling - different story. But to the hostile activist - not so much. They need to be met with steel wrapped in velvet.Solameaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09869424956571944997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-51330434874326316242012-03-08T08:53:22.017-08:002012-03-08T08:53:22.017-08:00When you make it about child-bearing, you're j...When you make it about child-bearing, you're just a mechanistic monster -- until they make it about child-bearing and having actual children, in which they are compassionate and loving.<br /><br />You can't win that argument because it's not actually an argument: it's a ploy to divert from what is at stake. What is at stake is whether or not there will be a next generation who inherits what is truly good and truly savory in our culture and our world. They could have more than that if they have at least that to build on -- but they have to have at least that.<br /><br />The argument from the other side is that they don't need any of that, and they'll be fine.<br /><br />We'll see.FX Turkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16798420127955373559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-11085262112109262262012-03-08T08:48:08.436-08:002012-03-08T08:48:08.436-08:00Before sin entered the world, God's first comm...Before sin entered the world, God's first command to Adam & Eve was to be fruitful and multiply. There was after all, only one man and one woman, so no other combinations were possible. After the fall, after the flood, the first command God gives Noah and his family in Genesis 9 is to be fruitful and multiply. This time there were a group of men and women, but the command was the same, even though (by RB's estimation) there could have been any number of possible combinations, none of which were plainly forbidden. <br /><br />One problem with the homosexual argument as I see it is why would God command them to be fruitful and multiply knowing that some combinations would be impossible to fulfill that command? Or why didn't God say, "pursue your desires and be happy" and leave it up to us to decide what that means? <br /><br />We humans have made such an idol of the pursuit of happiness, rather than pursuing to glorify God! We glorify Him by loving Him and <i> doing what He commands </i>. If Noah and his family did not fulfill God's command to be fruitful and multiply, they would not be glorifying God; they would have been doing the exact opposite of His commands. Sounds like sin to me!Merrilee Stevensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12770625841767761025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-21373799292378602712012-03-08T08:18:13.132-08:002012-03-08T08:18:13.132-08:00I still find the Gumby pix very disturbing. I am c...I still find the Gumby pix very disturbing. I am convinced Pokey rode away into the sunset because he shared my disquiet. Unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.Solameaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09869424956571944997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-72285501680518197082012-03-08T08:04:58.072-08:002012-03-08T08:04:58.072-08:00"...I really struggle..."-Brian
And we ..."...I really struggle..."-Brian<br /><br />And we all should to a degree, so that when we do speak the truth of God's Word, we can share this truth with fear and gentleness, yet also with boldness and joy as well.<br /><br />Sin is to be exposed, and we are the light of the world. <br /><br />The TeamPyro Amigos are wonderful examples do us Brian. Have a joyous day in your salvation, in all that is in, and of, and part of our great salvation.<br /><br />Gal. 6:14.donsandshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665794015011057098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-22429072970763055812012-03-08T07:56:02.451-08:002012-03-08T07:56:02.451-08:00Rant warning: Saw something on Rick's blog tha...Rant warning: Saw something on Rick's blog that requires comment. He has a picture of the front of Spurgeon's Tabernacle and the article with it is "Finding a gay-affirming church." Well Rick, here is a Spurgeon quote for you to place with the picture: "Shall the bestial vice of which Sodom was guilty never be checked? Why, if this should spread amongst the sons of men, it would bring in its infernal train ten thousand times more damage than the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The sin itself is infinitely worse than the fire which burned it up." If you want to imply that the Tabernacle is gay friendly, you are truly fulfilling Isaiah 5:20.Kerry James Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06083436735702873300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-58898232953831388122012-03-08T07:29:23.304-08:002012-03-08T07:29:23.304-08:00As polarizing as this issue is, I really struggle ...As polarizing as this issue is, I really struggle with how, when we stand for truth, we just sound/appear/come off as insensitive. Not at all saying you do in this post, but when I preach/blog/write about this, its hard to start off this conversation from a posture of grace without quickly moving to truth too soon.Brian Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09913499157858865993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-23077151496417062592012-03-08T06:34:18.772-08:002012-03-08T06:34:18.772-08:00There have been wicked civilizations before us and...There have been wicked civilizations before us and there will be wicked ones until the end of time. All things are moving toward the one great and final apex for which all creation groans inwardly. And we who have His spirit cry, "Lord have mercy!" <br /><br /><i>But according to his promise we wait for a new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, since you wait for these, be zealous to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.</i><br /><br />Maranatha! Come Lord Jesus!Darlenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01183436767997017002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-14712638510945833142012-03-08T06:08:44.779-08:002012-03-08T06:08:44.779-08:00"They just want to be happy."-Cent
Happ..."They just want to be happy."-Cent<br /><br />Happiness when sought will never be genuine.<br /><br />"Seek righteousness: seek Christ, and you will have happiness, and even more than that you shall taste the goodness of our Lord, and experience joy.<br /><br />The world follows hard after happiness, and pushes the Good News aside every time.<br /><br />Excellent post brother. Gracias mi hermano.donsandshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665794015011057098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-60358696387229417512012-03-07T16:38:42.928-08:002012-03-07T16:38:42.928-08:00Rick -
I didn't realize you were an intransi...Rick - <br /><br />I didn't realize you were an intransigent malcontent.<br /><br />And you didn't answer my question. Twice.<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by.FX Turkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16798420127955373559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-87079570989109820932012-03-07T16:12:42.422-08:002012-03-07T16:12:42.422-08:00Rick- Firstly, I think that your response to Frank...Rick- Firstly, I think that your response to Frank's question didn't really answer his question, though you may have meant it to. He asked "In the last 2000 years, which version of marriage "defined by culture" has had the greatest positive impact on the whole world?", to which you responded "obviously monogamy is predominant today as it was in OT times".<br /><br />But notice that Frank didn't ask which version of marriage was "predominant", but which one "had the greatest positive impact on the whole world.<br /><br />Secondly, a response to your question "But if Jesus clearly prescribed monogamy and outlawed polygamy, why did the Holy Spirit find it necessary to repeat in 1 Tim 3 and Titus 1, what Jesus made clear 30 years earlier?" <br /><br />We could say the same thing about any number of the requirements for a bishop. Jesus was pretty darned clear about not being greedy for money. Yet, Paul specifies that same point in 1 Timothy 3 as a requirement for a bishop. Surely you wouldn't assert that Paul's requirement is there because Jesus wasn't perfectly clear on this teaching years before.Keith Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14651921114118939282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21212024.post-86764475815316235692012-03-07T16:07:50.475-08:002012-03-07T16:07:50.475-08:00Ooooooops. I read this through earlier, but obvi...Ooooooops. I read this through earlier, but obviously not carefully enough. I just read it to my wife and I noticed that he did mention the donor (father). Must pay more attention.Larry Geigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13158449612437822789noreply@blogger.com