Posts from — April 2004

Speaking of Sora… she recently wrote… And in just a few weeks I should be spinning the first greens from my garden. Beets and chard are up.

Now, tell me, what is chard? I was under the impression it was a rather unique nickname I gained in my history…

While I am inclinded to agree with Matt and Sora (I just see myself, perhaps, being more lenient with exceptions) in the great birth control debate, I think barlow made an excellent (though not specific or isolated to this topic) point in comment 16 of this post:

I do personally think that there is something good in the approach that takes into account character in the gaining of knowledge. That excellence in reasoning, moral and otherwise, comes about by training and attuning the ear and gaining the right kinds of instincts seems right to me. In other words, having the right method is good, but it really needs to be in the hands of the right kind of reasoner as well because there is an excellence that can be cultivated in the use of intellectual tools.

In other words, we have to submit ourselves to the Bible, and let it teach us how to even think. Then, when our very pattens of thought are in conformity to God’s standards, we can begin to seek answers to the questions we have. Believing is seeing.

Douglas Wilson posted his songs from yesteryears…

Quite funny, really.

Gordon Wilson, brother of Doug, ex-elder of Providence Church, and ex-neighbor of me, used to play (as in sing it accompanying himself with a guitar) the song Science Fiction all the time. I always thought he wrote it, though. I’ll have to get after him about that.

Why is the success of a film judged by the money it grosses? Wouldn’t it make far more sense to go by ticket sales? I mean… using dollars, there’s no way to really compare a movie today from a movie ten years ago, let alone thirty or forty.

The Canons of Dordt
First Head of Doctrine
Divine Election and Reprobation – Articles of Faith
Article 17

Since we are to judge of the will of God from His Word, which testifies that the children of believers are holy, not by nature, but in virtue of the covenant of grace, in which they together with the parents are comprehended, godly parents ought not to doubt the election and salvation of their children whom it pleases God to call out of this life in their infancy (Gen. 17:7; Acts 2:39; I Cor. 7:14).

An announcement which will no doubt wrinkle the tail feathers of both the heresy hunters and the “I’m too cool for Doug Wilson” crowd…

http://www.dougwils.com

But I think I’ll like it a whole stinkin’ lot.

I just got a script from JoeMaller.com to protect my email from spammers.

Some good links to articles at Theology Log.

Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Ephesians 6:1-3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

Quite often in modern Christianity, the New Covenant is thought to be a spiritualized fulfillment of Old Covenant promises. Israel was promised the land, and that is understood as a physical type of the spiritual antitype of salvation. BUt is that really the connection that we see? Is it a physical vs. spiritual contrast? Or is the contrast more along the lines of big vs. HUGE?

It seems to me that Israel had true spiritual promises and true physical promises, and in likewise manner, the church today has true spiritual promises and true physical promises. The difference, then, is that the promises made to us in the church today are vastly expanded upon those made to Israel.

From the world of the freaky, freaky, freaky…

Three-Eyed, Double-Mouthed Calf In Good Health

And what I was really going to say before the gmail offer came up…

I bought What Saint Paul Really Said a little while back, and have been pretty excited about finally reading it. But I think I won’t. There’s just way too much ‘hype’ surrounding it. I’d rather just not care.

I’ll just stick to my backwoods, uncultured ways. I’ll finish Standing on the Promises and the other books on my reading list (two by Douglas Wilson… that’s sure to make someone cringe!) instead, and then maybe I’ll read something about biblical creation, since that seems to be pretty unpopular these days. And then maybe I’ll find something about dirt, or wood or something.