This is supposed to shock you. Get ready. Brace yourselves.
Gov. Sarah Palin believes that humans and dinosaurs coexisted on an earth that’s only about 6,000 years old.
Shocking, I know, since thousands of people have visited the Creation Museum. Check out this page on Wikipedia talking about polls on the topic of Creation and Evolution.
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They say that artists are a temperamental lot. They’re easily upset, and they may blow up at any time. I don’t think that, up to this point, I would have considered myself an artist1, but in the recent days my reaction to stress has been less than appropriate.
I have been in a lot of stressful jobs during my short life2.
It’s a scarier world out there—part because that as the end of time approaches people will become more lawless and part because we hear about it.
What I mean by the latter is that, at one point we didn’t hear the news that happened all around us—we were disconnected. Now we can find out with a few clicks all sorts of things about our neighbors.
Up until the selection of Gov. Sarah Palin a little less than two weeks ago, many people that I read were looking at Sen. McCain as the Lesser of Two Evils. They didn’t want to vote for him, so they were planning on voting against Obama. In fact, even Rush Limbaugh talked endlessly on how this election was going to be all about Obama—it was his to win or lose.
Of those that are choosing either not to vote, or to cast a vote for a third party candidate, KimC, at In a Shoe, expresses their sentiment when she says:
It’s trite but true: a vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil.
The problem is that this reflects a poor understand of man and the Scripture.
Yesterday was my church’s 50th anniversary, and for that anniversary our pastor invited the first pastor of the church back to offer the message of the morning. That message was in keeping with a series that we just finished up a few weeks ago, in that it brought to focus the understanding that it’s not about us, it’s all about Him.
From the way that this issue is painted, Homosexuality is the worst sin to befall mankind. I made the argument in a discussion of the McDonald’s boycott that there are many sins that God hates, and that we should make sure that we major on what God considers sin.
So, what about this sin?
Perry believes that God exaggerates the importance of this sin based on Romans 1:27. What’s interesting about this passage is that it is a progression.
Perry over at Life In a Shoe has addressed my post on the McDonald’s boycott, so I thought that it would be only fitting to address some of his concerns in a related post1.
I think many of the difference between the two of us remains a difference of definitions. Because of my background I’m both strangely precise2 and guarded at the same time.
So, when I made the statement regarding being in the “holiness” camp over the “love” camp, I was not making a reference to who I think God is, but rather how Christians have chosen to align themselves.
To explain this, I need a short digression.
One of the things that I’ve mentioned before that’s convicted me is the fact that my life is not that much different from the “good” unsaved person’s life. What I mean is that my outside appearance—apart from the fact that I do not swear—is pretty much the same as what you would expect out of a professional.
So, how do people really see God if I look not much different than them?
God gives God-sized encounters because that is the only way the world will come to know Him.
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