@megbasham Wouldn't this talk closer align with foreigners bringing in their foreign gods, eventually making their own - ie the 'Sins of Jeroboam' in Israel & idols in high places? Foreigners obeyed all but the ceremonial laws. Such ideologies seem to have some equivalence.
@farmingandJesus One would think that the Apostle John would have placed more emphasis upon Mary in his record, whom he took in after Jesus was crucified (John 19:26-27). 🤷♂️
Yes, this hit me far harder than I had expected. I've known about him - I've seen his clips; and more recently noticed his more faith-based clips. However many of those that I do trust are close to Charlie... it is far more visceral than I would have ever have thought. Spirit (man, symbol, etc) is far more connected to us, and this seems a most profound example, at least of anything recent that I can think of.
Good morning.
The reason you feel Charlie’s death so deeply is because grief doesn’t measure itself by proximity. It measures itself by meaning. You didn’t have to know him personally to feel the sting of his absence, because when a voice like his goes silent, something in the atmosphere shifts.
The reason it feels heavier than so many other tragedies is because your spirit recognizes that this is not just about a man, it is about a battle. Scripture says eternity is written on our hearts, and when someone who carried truth with boldness is suddenly gone, eternity aches within us. It’s like our souls know instinctively that the darkness celebrated, and that strikes us at the core.
The reason you can’t shake it is because psychologically, we don’t only attach ourselves to people…we attach ourselves to symbols. Charlie became a symbol of conviction in a time of compromise, courage in a time of fear. And when a symbol is struck down, it rattles something primal and eternal inside us.
That’s why even those who never met him feel it. There is a strange thread pulling at us, and it is not imagined. It is real. We are bound together by shared purpose, by shared longing for truth, by the Spirit of God Himself weaving us into a fabric that cannot be torn apart. This loss pulled at that fabric, and every one of us felt the tug.
So if you’ve wondered why this hits so hard, it’s because your soul knows. This is bigger than news. This is bigger than politics. This is about eternity, about truth, and about the weight of a man whose life carried both.
Love y’all.
The Protestant movement is suffering from a self inflicted wound, by too sharply condemning other churches, that are more historical, it has cut it's self off from history, the apostles, and Christ, no one can take seriously a view that Christianity started 500 years ago! This is why so many are leaving these churches to join Orthodox and Catholic Churches. The way to stop this - is to recognise Catholic and Orthodox as Christians, as legitimate churches (with errors from the Protestant perspective) and to affirm the good in them, which will allow Protestants to claim a sufficient share of their history as to connect back to the sources of the faith.
Brilliant:
Q: “Do you believe the unborn are humans?”
A: “No.”
Q: “Do you believe Christ was fully human in the womb?”
If you say yes, you affirm pro-life. If you answer no, you’re a Nestorian.
Heresy or pro-life are the only options.