Sunday, June 15, 2008
Sunday, June 8, 2008
HANK'S NATION ** I'm humble ... but informed!: PERPLEXITY
DON'T QUIT ON AMERICA! FROM ETERNITY THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN SOMETHING. I HAVE A CERTAIN PERCEPTION OF MY OWN EXISTENCE.
DO YOU?
DO YOU?
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
A BIT OF LOCKE'S PHILOSOPHY
Concerning God's existence, Locke's proof is a cosmological-type argument. From the certainty of our own existence of God immediately follows. A person knows intuitively that he is "something that actually exists." Next a person knows with intuitive certainty that "a bare nothing can no more produce any real being than it can be equal to two right angles." It is, therefore, an evident demonstration that from eternity there has been something. And since all the powers of all beings must be traced to this eternal Being, it follows that it is the most powerful, as well as the most knowing, that is, God. Locke here assumes, without question, the validity of the casual principle even beyond the range of possible experience.
What say you?
What say you?
Friday, May 30, 2008
YOU VS HELL!
"Even those who admit that the Bible is pretty clear about the reality of hell sometimes voice their wish that it didn't have to be so. "Well, if I were God, I certainly wouldn't send someone there," I heard one perhaps well-meaning but supremely ignorant believer say.
If eternity would be a better place without hell, God would have made it so. If love and hell can't co-exist, God never would have allowed hell to come into being. When I attack hell, when I call it heartless, or sadistic, or act like I wish it wasn't there, I am blatantly telling God that He blew it; that He should have tried just a little bit harder to make a world where hell wasn't necessary."
An excerpt from Gary Thomas' "Why I'm A Fan Of Hell."
If eternity would be a better place without hell, God would have made it so. If love and hell can't co-exist, God never would have allowed hell to come into being. When I attack hell, when I call it heartless, or sadistic, or act like I wish it wasn't there, I am blatantly telling God that He blew it; that He should have tried just a little bit harder to make a world where hell wasn't necessary."
An excerpt from Gary Thomas' "Why I'm A Fan Of Hell."
Sunday, May 25, 2008
POLITICIANS AND MEMORIAL DAY
"Changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed greatly to the general public's nonchalant observance of Memorial Day." -- VFW 2002 Memorial Day address.
Memorial Day used to be a solemn day of mourning, a sacred day of remembrance to honor those who paid the ultimate price for our freedoms. Businesses closed for the day. Towns held parades honoring the fallen, the parade routes often times ending at a local cemetery, where Memorial Day speeches were given and prayers offered up. People took the time that day to clean and decorate with flowers and flags the graves of those the fell in service to their country.
Memorial Day used to be a solemn day of mourning, a sacred day of remembrance to honor those who paid the ultimate price for our freedoms. Businesses closed for the day. Towns held parades honoring the fallen, the parade routes often times ending at a local cemetery, where Memorial Day speeches were given and prayers offered up. People took the time that day to clean and decorate with flowers and flags the graves of those the fell in service to their country.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
WAKE UP TO REALITY!
Are you going to Hell? Here's another excerpt, this time from Gary Thomas' book 'The Gritty Reality of Hell...."
"Jesus describes hell as a place of severe judgment, so painful that a person would prefer to lose a bodily part here on earth than have his whole body thrown into such a painful place (Matt. 5:29-30). There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matt. 8:12; 22:13). Hell, according to Jesus, is a place where (quoting from Isaiah) "their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched" (Mark 9:48). In the famous "Sheep and Goats" parable, Jesus describes the fate of those who go to Gehenna as "eternal punishment" (Matt. 25:46). In the midst of this punishment, there is also separation from the presence of Christ (Matt. 7:23).
From Jesus' words, we can also discern that hell is not socialist; there will be degrees of punishment, just as in heaven there will be degrees of reward (Mark 12:40, Luke 12:47-48)."
"Jesus describes hell as a place of severe judgment, so painful that a person would prefer to lose a bodily part here on earth than have his whole body thrown into such a painful place (Matt. 5:29-30). There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matt. 8:12; 22:13). Hell, according to Jesus, is a place where (quoting from Isaiah) "their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched" (Mark 9:48). In the famous "Sheep and Goats" parable, Jesus describes the fate of those who go to Gehenna as "eternal punishment" (Matt. 25:46). In the midst of this punishment, there is also separation from the presence of Christ (Matt. 7:23).
From Jesus' words, we can also discern that hell is not socialist; there will be degrees of punishment, just as in heaven there will be degrees of reward (Mark 12:40, Luke 12:47-48)."
ARE YOU A FAN OF HELL?
Here's an excerpt from Gary Thomas' "Why I'm A Big Fan of Hell" ...
"If eternity would be a better place without hell, God would have made it so. If love and hell can't co-exist, God never would have allowed hell to come into being. When I attack hell, when I call it heartless, or sadistic, or act like I wish it wasn't there, I am blatantly telling God that He blew it; that He should have tried just a little bit harder to make a world where hell wasn't necessary."
Do you think Hell is necessary?
"If eternity would be a better place without hell, God would have made it so. If love and hell can't co-exist, God never would have allowed hell to come into being. When I attack hell, when I call it heartless, or sadistic, or act like I wish it wasn't there, I am blatantly telling God that He blew it; that He should have tried just a little bit harder to make a world where hell wasn't necessary."
Do you think Hell is necessary?
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