Raptor Pass

Geocities is shutting down this year. Any of you remember that place? It’s where I first created a website. David’s Islands…. Oh those were the day… Of bad designs and horrid graphics with slow download speeds… I think I still have a back up of that site on a disc somewhere. Heh. Scary thought.

Anyway, this is relevant to the PK because David’s Islands was replaced by Preachers Kid when I became a PK. The old address www.geocities.com/heartland/bluffs/6032 now redirects to here.

On another note, my old site The Background Island is still there. www.geocities.com/bgisland. Heh. And Christian Graphics Island (www.geocities.com/bgisland/cgisland though I don’t know where the index page went.) is what became ChristGraphics.com.

It’s like a giant piece of the Internets History is dieing……

btw, is it a good thing that I can still remember that long url from my first site after over ten years?

This is what you get when playing D&D Tiny Adventures on Facebook. Not the most exciting game in the world, but the amusement factor is there.

Enjoying the fresh mountain air, Corin Altera began to juggle a few objects he had with him. A few skeletons came upon Corin Altera and were so transfixed by the juggling that they started tossing him bones to juggle.

Corin Altera was able to keep it up until the skeletons had dismantled themselves.

Skeletons, dismantling themselves to be juggled… Wow…

20 God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.” 21 When he got up in the morning, Balaam saddled his donkey and went with the officials of Moab.

22 But God was incensed that Balaam was going, and the Angel of the LORD took His stand on the path to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him. 23 When the donkey saw the Angel of the LORD standing on the path with a drawn sword in His hand, she turned off the path and went into the field. So Balaam hit her to return her to the path. 24 Then the Angel of the LORD stood in a narrow passage between the vineyards, with a stone wall on either side. 25 The donkey saw the Angel of the LORD and pressed herself against the wall, squeezing Balaam’s foot against it. So he hit her once again. 26 The Angel of the LORD went ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn to the right or the left. 27 When the donkey saw the Angel of the LORD, she crouched down under Balaam. So he became furious and beat the donkey with his stick.

28 Then the LORD opened the donkey’s mouth, and she asked Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?” (AK)

29 Balaam answered the donkey, “You made me look like a fool. If I had a sword in my hand, I’d kill you now!”

30 But the donkey said, “Am I not the donkey you’ve ridden all your life until today? Have I ever treated you this way before?”

“No,” he replied.

31 Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the Angel of the LORD standing in the path with a drawn sword in His hand. Balaam knelt and bowed with his face [to the ground]. 32 The Angel of the LORD asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you, because what you are doing is evil in My sight. 33 The donkey saw Me and turned away from Me these three times. If she had not turned away from Me, I would have killed you by now and let her live.”

34 Balaam said to the Angel of the LORD, “I have sinned, for I did not know that You were standing in the path to confront me. And now, if it is evil in Your sight, I will go back.”

35 Then the Angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you are to say only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with Balak’s officials.

So, anyone want to explain this one? God tells him to go with the men, then God gets mad at him, then God tells him to go with the men again…. I don’t see Balaam doing anything wrong….

to tell us what the Bible says. Abortion is NOT Condemned by the Bible. Not even close..

This is my comment:

In regards to the original post. The Bible says that God knew us and formed us in our mothers womb.

Psalm 139:13
For it was You who created my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Job 10:11
You clothed me with skin and flesh, and wove me together with bones and tendons.

Psalm 119:73
Your hands made me and formed me; give me understanding so that I can learn Your commands.

It makes no mention of WHEN He did that. Therefore, saying that life only begins after a certain amount of time is an arbitrary human decision. We now know that the method God uses to knit us together in our mother’s womb is cellular mitosis (I think that’s right…). And that begins at conception.

If God takes the time to knit us together inside our mother’s womb, He obviously considers us alive, or at least worth something. Hence, killing a baby in the womb is murder.

Quote from Gus: “For example, IF God knew us and protected us in the womb, that does not necessarily mean we were there from conception.”
Um, that doesn’t make sense, you can come to both conclusions. God knowing us and protecting us in the womb could mean that He did so from conception, OR some arbitrary point of time after conception. Thus, saying one way or another is human interpretation. Which means you have to take the whole Bible into account. Taking the Bible as a whole leads me believe that God is the same, yesterday, today, and tomorrow (Bible quote), and since we are made in the image of God, we are just as alive now as we were at conception.

The passage quoted in the OP is obviously referring to an accident. Which is why only a fine was required. Also, when speaking about the Old Testament Law in regards to Christianity, you have to remember that most Christians consider it fulfilled by Jesus Christ. Basically, the Law was given to demonstrate how utterly impossible it is for humans to be right with God on their own. We can only become right with God through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. It’s the old covenant versus the new covenant. Judgment versus Grace. In the case of the man who caused the baby’s death, grace is extended to him because he did not kill the baby intentionally. Abortion is most definitely intentional.

Also, the Bible doesn’t have to outright condemn abortion. It is painfully obvious that life begins at conception, and the fact that people have been able to confuse that amazes me. The only difference between a grown up human and an unborn human is that the unborn human needs the womb to survive, and the grown up needs the Earth’s atmosphere to survive…

A couple other points. There are lots of Christians who help mothers who choose not to have an abortion. And I wish there were more.

Also, I personally believe that trying to use the Bible in a debate with people who are not Christian is utterly stupid. I only used it in this post because the OP was about the Bible. I also have spent quite a bit of time formulating the beliefs I learned from the Bible in a non-religious manner so that I could talk to people who are not Christian.

Today I had really really really bad stomach pain. No matter how much I passed gas, I couldn’t get rid of enough to relieve the pain. I was literally bent over on the floor rocking back and forth. I can only thankful right now that it now just hurts.

So, why am I talking about this? It’s because of some of the thoughts I had.

While I hurt a lot, I remembered that the pain Jesus felt when he died for my sins was many many times worse. Not only was he physically tortured in ways that I can’t even really imagine, but he was subjected to the pain of my sins.

Now, while the pain Jesus was subjected to is something we Christians do need to spend some time contemplating, it isn’t the main thought I had.

The main thought I had is this: Jesus suffered that horrific pain willingly precisely because he did not want me to suffer that pain.

If you spend some time contemplating that thought, you may come to wonder why Jesus allows us to suffer pain when he suffered to spare us that. I wondered that today. I was begging God to just end the stomach pain. What you have to remember is the Jesus does not just fit in whatever box we want to put him in. When bad things (pain) happen to Christians, there really are a couple things that could be going on. First is that there is something interfering between you and God. Sin, doubt, not walking the path you are supposed, etc. Second, is that God can see far beyond the pain we may be in. Because he can see that, he may know that it would be bad for you if he removed the pain right then. Today, perhaps, God wanted me to write this post. I would not be writing this post if he had just taken the pain away. Basically, just trust that God knows what he is doing. ‘Cause he does!

A final thought. I have heard people say that God made them sick, or God made something bad happen to them to teach them a lesson of some kind. This is false! It might even be sinful! Anything that is from God is good. If you are saved, do not blame God when something bad happens to you. Even when the cause is sin. God’s word is very clear, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. The judgment that God has passed has always been on those that are not in him. When bad things happen to us, it is always because of our own sin, someone else’s sin, or an attack from Satan. Remember that!

“Therefore, no condemnation now exists for those in Christ Jesus, because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.” Romans 8:1-2. Holman Christian Standard Bible.

So, I was just thinking about why I believe that the Bible is God’s Word. Initially I believed that the Bible was true on simple belief. That resulted in my salvation. Then I believed in the Bible due to personal revelation from God that it was His word. After a while I ran into people questioning the accuracy of the Bible. So after some research, I saw that it is one of the most historically accurate documents around. Basically something like the Odyssey has fewer accurate surviving documents than the Bible does and historians still consider it accurate. Thus, historically, the Bible is accurate.

It just occurred to me that this somewhat fits the mathematical induction method of proof.

You assume that the first is true, then you prove that the next is true. If the next is true, then it is true for everything. Prove P(N). Assume P(1). Show P(N+1).

So, I assume the Bible is true. The next step would be that I would be saved if I repented. I repented and I know I am saved. Another next step, could be that the Bible is historically true. Therefore the entire Bible is true.

It doesn’t totally fit the method. But it is interesting!

I found this site through Facebook. http://respectourpresident.org/

I have to say I agree with most of what he says. I have never liked the way people disrespect our leaders. Even if I don’t like said leaders. If you have facebook, I urge you to find an join the group there.

So, a while ago, JC and I went to the dollar fifty to see The Dark Knight. For those of you who don’t know, it is the sequel to Batman Begins.

It was an ok movie. Not one I would want to see again though. It was very dark and intense, and the good guys only sort of won…

I also would like to know why there were little kids there… I mean, this was a show with tons of violence, and a guy with half his face burned off. If I was a little bolder, I would’ve spoken up and asked when the little kid started crying…

Ok, on to what I really wanted to say. This movie gives a very good example showing why vigilantism is bad.

Look at one of the central themes of the movie. Batman refuses to kill. The Joker loves to kill. As a result, The Joker keeps killing after Batman has multiple chances to kill him. Now, what makes Batman a hero is the fact that he doesn’t kill. If he did kill, he would be just another thug. But his refusal to kill results in the deaths of innocents. So, obviously, he should kill or disable the bad guys. Right? Wrong! Batman is simply a civilian. He has no authority to do what he does, if he killed, he would be a murderer. If he disabled, that would be assault, or something like that. Basically, because he doesn’t kill, he is viewed as a hero by the people and he is able to keep going. And as the Joker so aptly demonstrates, the very thing that sets him apart, is the thing that is his greatest weakness. And any criminal who figures that out, will be able to pretty much neutralize Batman.

Now, a better solution to the threat of the Joker would be a Special Forces team. Batman is only slightly better than a high level special forces team. If the police had called in the special forces, the Joker would have been eliminated very quickly. The Joker was a proven terrorist, all the special forces would have had to do was find him and kill him. They would have that authority because they are part of our military.

And there you have why vigilantism is bad. A vigilante doesn’t have the authority to kill. A government force other other hand does, and when the situation calls for it, they can.

I don’t think I got my point across very well, but I tried…