No, it is a serious question. In the Army, there was always the drive to be a “real man”. It was a particularly competitive environment that looked down upon whiners, quitters and losers. You know, God told Job to “Gird up thy loins now like a man” (Job 40:7). Was…
One thing you see over and over by critics is that, “You believe that keeping the Law makes you righteous.” Well, I suppose that keeping the civil law makes you a law abiding citizen, and so in a sense they are right. Does breaking the Law make you righteous? Yet,…
UCG put out a blog article on Inside United: Realtime that wasn’t on the site last time I looked yesterday. In “Chairman and President Post More Detailed Explanations”, an announcement is made of two new papers. One is a paper on “Was Proposing or Acting on the 2008 GCE Rescind…
Well, pastor Terry Jones has certainly been in the news a lot lately. He was going to burn the Koran, then he might, now he might not … depending upon who is reporting it. Rumor has it that the infamous Westboro Baptist Church, the church whose claim to fame is…
Well, no, not really. However, if you are into twisting Scripture in order to allow yourself to not feel guilty about breaking the Sabbath, then you might not be able to come to any other conclusion applying the same logic to Jesus’ actions when He was walking the earth. In…
A Shofar, or trumpet made of ram’s horn What is the Christian understanding of the Feast of Trumpets? What is it with these “trumpets” anyhow?
The week continues to get odder still. I glanced at the RSS feed yesterday, and I knew I would just have to post about the freak accident where “Giant hay bale crushes ex-ELO star to death”. King Solomon wrote: 11I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is…
Tonight is Rosh Hashanah, or the Jewish New Year. However, the Torah refers to it as Zicaron Terua, “a memorial of the blowing of [rams] horns” (source Wikipedia, Rosh Hashana). Some believe that the New Covenant does away with the Feast of Trumpets. However, pouring over the NT reveals no…
6,000 years or so of humanity. Have we learned anything yet? On the physical plane, we have successfully fought some diseases, sent men to the moon and back and have created such a connected world that we often fight “information overload”. And yet, we still have famines (mostly man-made), wars…
The PCG announcement was not the only wacky thing going on this weekend. Maybe it’s just because it is Labor Day weekend and people have more time on their hands. More likely, it is because the fall holy days come earlier, so some of it is due to pre-holy day…