The Bible is Hard.

The Bible is Hard. Putting aside the fact that many people will not understand what is inside of it for the Lord Blinds their eyes, so that they may be always seeing but never perceiving(Mark 14:12). It is also just plain hard.
In Chemistry you don't need to read the giants of the past, because that was then and we now have moved on. In History you can settal on one event or time and become an expert in just that one topic and know that one topic in whole and with much authority and accuracy. Economics you learn the principles then everything is built on those principles, the rest of the study is gravy. Math never changes, two in these gerneration is two a thousand gerneration beyond it no matter the learnes preceptions.
If you lived in Beruit Lebanon during the mid-1940s, you never saw a cite that you never saw in your life, but was extremely common to your ansecters. It was always there. You could just never see it. You have an intellicual understand of it's existance but you never saw it and they might as well not exist. When the Muslims bomb Beruit's power, the lights in the city went out and you could see the stars. Today we live in the Post-industerial revolution. Post-agirucultural. We live with Neo-classical thought. We live with concepts like freedom. None of live under a king. None of us seen slavery. Pedophilia is actually looked down on. Where there is only a hand full of religions. We live were we do not know the name, muchless rely on our neighbor. We live without needing to avenge our distiant relatives death, because if we don't the murder walks free. We have police which is an extremely recent invention.
All this and I have not even spoken of the Hebrew lanaguage or thought. The Hebrew idioms. The Chaldean infuluance on the Hebrew language. Armaic. Greek.
I have not mentions the self referal understand that the writers assume you know. The Laws and external rules that assume you understand.
Do I long for the past, no. Do I want to take a hammer to the machines, no.

Niceness

My brothers and sisters, in the One True faith(which is in Christ), have bought a bill of goods that are no good. It goes like this. Christians are suppose to be genital, nice, not hurting someones feelings, push overs, and always happy to see each other like as seeing long lost son. This is disingenuous and off putting and all of the World know it. No one cared what American Idol judge Paula Abdul had to say about the preformance. No one. It's just noise. Flowery noise.
Now the natural inclination of an arguer is to take the extreme on the next scale. "Oh so we should curse and slander each other." No. How do we treat our blood relation? Do we put up with their crap? Do we always do what they say? Do we call them out for acting foolish? Do we jest? Is there not a big difference between how your mom sees you (that you can do no wrong), and how your brother or sister sees you. Don't be guilted in to someone that is not you. So what is my hard fast rule. Other then love each other. I don't have one.

The Mint, Where Hard Currency is Made.

"Our sins were dealt with by the blood, we ourselves are dealt with by the cross. The Blood procures our pardon, the cross procures deliverance from what we are in Adam. The Blood can wash away my sins, but it cannot wash away my old man:I need the cross to crucify me-the sinner."
-Watchman Nee "Normal Christian Life"

My blog is primarily about my religion, faith in the finish work of Yeshua haMashia, the Son of Yehovah, the King of Glory. With a Dabbling in of economics, my view of culture and my Politics.