The Demise of the Butcher of Tehran

 Morning time today was on the demise the butcher of Tehran and Pope Francis with all humanity born good or bad. The idea that evil is systemic and external and change of the environments or better systems will show men to be inherently good. I especially liked Ben Shapiro's simple explanation on how to be good according to Christianity: Find Christ and He will heal your soul and you will be a better person. The heart of man is desperately wicked and no amount of organizing will save it. And a profusion of #poppies 

Would You Rather Be Colonized by Aztecs or Christians? | 5-Minute Videos

Morning time today was about the Aztecs and other vanquished peoples who are owed and owe.We prefer to be colonized by Christians if we must. Meanwhile we wait for our liberal friends to master the art of unravelling the fabric of human nature to build a utopia in which we can have our reparations cake and eat it too.

How Should We Then Live? Francis Schaeffer - The Age of Personal Peace and Affluence

 

How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer

 

France's Revolution is Evil; America's Independence is Just. Why?

France's Revolution is Evil; America's Independence is Just. Why?

 "If France's Revolutionary War was evil as so many Christians agree that it was, how can we justify America's War of Independence?" Hint: Acts 17:26 when compared to the same truth regarding what a family is.

The Shack: Book and Coming Movie.

Lengthy, I am sorry but The Shack, the book and coming movie are awful! 

Christian best sellers these days make for very bad theology which, we are told, doesn’t matter these days. Characteristically using emotionalism and a tragic story-line to answers life’s big questions and present a god who is no God. We must leave Christian Orthodoxy behind to indulge in a movie that will utilize the visual, music and dialogue to marry our hearts to this indefensible misrepresentation of a Holy God. God is Spirit and blatantly disregarding the second commandment alone should give us reason to pause. 

Here are some of this shack’s god’s heresies: “I am not who you think I am.” “I don’t punish sin.” “ I don’t condemn most to an eternity of torment.” This god does not create institutions… cue…The Church of Jesus Christ is an institution as is marriage between a man and a woman so go figure. Today’s judges would put this god to shame because she will let the guilty go free by invoking the “mercy triumphs over justice” line out of context. This goddess is all about, I quote, “ relationships, not rules.” Oprah’s beloved myth of many ways to God does not become true just because we want it to be. Seriously, next trip you take, try this illogical thinking at the local airport. All airplanes go to Disneyland so you can board any that you like…rules, seat numbers, maps, all irrelevant. Universal-ism, the notion that all dogs, cats, people eventually go to heaven, is a pipe dream for the autonomous, egalitarian modern man to his peril. 

And so, with the producer that gave us the religious confusion that was The Life of Pi, into the Shack we go with a side of polytheism and maybe Sarah Young’s other jesus will call us out. This is a god that has to bow to the squishy feel good zeitgeist and doesn’t even know what she is or what He said, ever. Vagueness is not an attribute of The God of the Bible, it never has been. The true God wants us to know Him and goes about revealing His character, His ways and His will in the Bible…clearly.

 I don’t know what is more frightening; that the god of the Shack does not know the Bible or that this god is indeed a she. 

To enjoy the shack, let us at least admit our utter discomfort with historic Christian Orthodoxy and our epistemological rebellion towards God’s only way of salvation--Jesus.The author of the Shack is very deliberate in using narrative to serve a false and dangerous theology. He seeks not to ignore the true God but to remake a god after our own image and likeness.

God: Fact or Fiction? John Lennox

Whatever happened to the study of The One True God?

“The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to miss today, but oddly enough, not easy to prove. It is hard to miss in the evangelical world--in the vacuous worship that is so prevalent, for example, in the shift form God to the self as the central focus of faith, in the psychologized preaching that follows this shift, in the erosion of its conviction, in its strident pragmatism, in its inability to think incisively about the culture, in its reveling in the irrational.” ― David F. Wells, No Place for Truth: Or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology