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"Does it seem right to you,

that there should be no common language between us?
That there should be no way to bring a drop of water to those of us who languish in the flames?
That between us and the man of the cloth there is a great gulf fixed?
How can capital-T Truth not be communicable?
It makes no sense to me..


Let me simplify the issue.

Do you think that some people are intentionally and irretrievably consigned to predition? Are there people who are simply born evil, live evil lives, and then go to hell?"



Well.



"I tell them there are certain attributes our faith assigns to God: omniscence, justice, and grace.
We human beings have such a slight acquaintance with power and knowledge, so little conception of justice, and so slight a capacity for grace,
that the workings of these great attributes together is a mystery we cannot hope to penetrate."





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Last last saturday at Smoot's church, the sermon was about the purpose and function of cell groups within the ministry, quite a drowsy message so I spent the time reading Matthew 13, because somehow I felt there was something there that I should refer to again.


"Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand."
Matthew 13:13

"For this people's heart has become calloused;

they hardly hear with their ears,

and they have closed their eyes.

Otherwise they might see with their eyes,

hear with their ears,

understand with their hearts
and turn,

and I would heal them.'
Matthew 13:15

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways My ways"
-Isaiah 55




How important humility is to faith.. God wants nothing more than to bless us with His gifts, and I guess we need to acknowledge that for all our supposed intelligence, we don't really know much.



Yup. And I liked smoot's methodist church (: First time in my life I've seen pastors wearing the collar. Quite a nice distinguished look to it.
The best part of it was of course, the worship, especially when they sang To God be the Glory. I used to sing it when I was a little kiddy at my presbyterian service, then I moved to Grace AOG, and they didn't sing hymns anymore.


I am aware naturally, of the destructive potency of religious self-righteousness. But that is a different stream of thought for a different day.


I am also aware that these extemporaneous remarks are the manifestation of my headache all day. :\ Must go eat Macs lunch to cheer myself up. (:










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This life, with its own mortal loveliness, provides a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, and every one of them sufficient.

Grace is not so poor a thing, that it cannot present itself in any number of ways..