In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?”The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense,” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover, if there is life, then why has no one ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery, there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her, this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.”
Maybe this was one of the best explanations of the concept of GOD.
– this lovely parable is from Your Sacred Self by Dr. Wayne Dyer 🙏
von Balthasar, reflecting on the sweep of John's Gospel, wondrously framed it, "Jesus is the Word, the Image, the Expression and the Exegesis of God. . . . He is what he expresses—namely God—but he is not whom he expresses—namely the Father." What'd Jesus come to make known? The Father. #484
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"In the beginning was the Word." John was playing off the Hebrew concept dabar: the powerful word(s) of God. The 10 commandments were dabars: they would effect change if obeyed. And man, can you imagine how blessed the planet would be if humanity ONLY kept those 10?! So simple, so pure. Life, oh, life would be so rich, peaceful, ordered, blessed! #484
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Big news from Italy 🇮🇹
Georgia Meloni just announced Italy will BAN face coverings in school.
The government will also have a limit on the number of foreign students in each classroom to avoid Italian children from becoming a minority.
And parents of students who have difficulties with integration at school will also be required to learn Italian.
Italy is getting serious about integration.
Jesus came to be the good news. So, fittingly the focus is on him. It's never been called the bestest ever ethical-ianity. Similarly, it's not called the bestest-ever Social Justice polity-ianity. It's called Christianity because the focus is Christ Jesus. #484
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Jesus said don’t harm the children. Modern day heard that and decided if the mother was depressed, killing them is a legal gray area.
That’s not interpretation. That’s a dead conscience.
"He had a few good things to say about loving our neighbors, but the bad outweighs the good in Jesus' teachings, if we're looking at things honestly here," her essay continued. "He really needed to ask Himself, 'What would Jesus do?' more often, and then He'd have devoted a lot more of His time to social justice, like me."
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Liberals missed the point when they presented Christianity as some new social ethic. Progressive Christianity repeats that error today when it presents the faith as a vehicle of emotional love. Instead, Jesus came to be the Good news. He not only bears the good news of reconciliation between God and humankind, but is himself the Good news. Let's re-appreciate the beauty of this mystery. #484
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If the proper protocols for replay weren’t followed then the FBS Oversight committee should overturn the result of the game and make Western Michigan the winner of the game against Michigan.
Period. End of Story.
Saying “hey they got it wrong, but we won’t fix it” only makes it worse and is a slap in the face to the fans of football everywhere.
In his Gospel, John’s initial & mind-blowing focus is not on the Gospel per se. “Jesus didn’t come to deliver,” the beautiful-souled theologian Thomas Oden wrote, “a Gospel, but to be himself that Gospel.” In other words, we err—per John’s Gospel, per the NT—if we think Jesus came to deliver a message or a modest way of life that was, in fact, superior to Jesus himself. We don’t worship the gospel. We worship Jesus. #484
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Princeton is the latest university to achieve academic nirvana: not a single faculty member contributes to a Republican candidate or campaign. Conversely, 98% of political donations went to Democrats or Democrat-affiliated groups...https://t.co/FRLOSWGEHb
Evangelicals love to suggest John's Gospel to new believers. John's the favored of the four Gospels. But it's a big swing and a miss for Evangelicals when it comes to the pre-existence of the Word, as God. Almost no sermons, hardly any contemplation on what John is actually revealing about Jesus across his chapters. All this when John is conveying a beautiful mystery, a mysterious beauty! #484
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🚨 WOW: Laura Ingraham just marked 20 YEARS since Al Gore tried to scare the living daylights out of America.
Florida underwater. Shanghai gone. Calcutta wiped. Manhattan’s World Trade Center memorial submerged. Hundreds of thousands of refugees. Then imagine 100 million.
THE APOCALYPSE THAT NEVER ARRIVED.
Two decades later, Gore’s tidal-wave PowerPoint is still the template. Scare the public. Demand control. Never apologize when the oceans fail to swallow Midtown. Climate panic is a political weapon, not a weather forecast.
Stop the fear circus. Live in the real world.
ENOUGH AL GORE DOOMSDAY.
This is really shocking, excellent work. Encourage all of my evangelical followers to read. The Gospel Coalition was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars from an anti-AI NGO.
And lo and behold, after this, TGC issued their anti-AI policy (which fine to have a policy, but it was done with a very particular subtext) then one of their best known personalities (@gavinortlund) issues an over the top warning about the dangers of AI and it’s potential for destroying humanity.
Shepherds for sale?
New Episode: For 2K years the Church has called the fourth Evangelist, John, "the theologian." Why? Because of what he conveys, and how he conveys it, in his Gospel. He calls the man Jesus the Word of God. What's that mean? #484
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