Tag Archives: Religion

Get it right people…

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Yup, it’s another post about “Religion”.  (F1 2012 starts soon, and I’ve started playing Star Wars the Old Republic, so I may have other stuff to talk about in the future)

So I was watching something on TV this last weekend, and for the life of me I can’t remember what the exact name of the show was, or if it was on the Science channel, Discovery, or History channel, I guess I should start keeping a pad and pen next to me to write this stuff down. Anyways, as I was watching this program it began to talk about the “Rapture” and the different viewpoints on the rapture, and how people think it may happen (before or after the tribulation).  As the show was discussing this, they had some guy come on talk about how he doesn’t understand why there is this belief system where only a small group of “good” people are taken away, and everyone else is left to fend for themselves instead of society throwing that belief system out the window and just working together. Well this statement has just flat out annoyed me, because it is wrong.

So let’s get it right people.  When the “Rapture” happens (I say when cause I am a Christian, therefore there is no “if” here), it will not be a small group of “Good” people that are raptured away.  It will be those that believe in and saved by Christ.   Our humanly definition of “Good” has absolutely NOTHING to do with it.

And for this I am extremely grateful, because if the rapture was based on some form of the word “Good” , absolutely no one would be raptured, because absolutely No one is “Good” enough in the eyes of God to be raptured except through being saved by his son.  As the Bible clearly states that “All have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God” Romans 3:23.

Ok, stopping here so I really don’t go off and start “preaching” on my blog.  And I think that is the first time I’ve ever quoted an actual verse and verse reference on this blog.  Just wanted to clarify that ‘Good” has nothing to do with who gets raptured away, and/or gets into heaven for that matter.

So um, until next time :D

The tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil

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Well, this time last year, I probably would have apologized for this next post in that it is yet another “Religious” topic post, but this year, nope no need to apologize, everyone else can just deal with it because this is where my mind is going. So the topic of today’s post is about the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and why God may have even placed it in the Garden of Eden to begin with.

This topic was actually brought about by a conversation that I had with my mother one day this last week.  I don’t recall exactly what we were talking about or why the comment came up and brought this idea to me, but we began discussing why God placed this particular tree in the garden if he didn’t want man to sin in the first place.

Now if you’ve ever had any amount of decent “religious” conversations with a variety of people sooner or later you will hear comments that vary along the lines of “Christians are just ignorant and follow blindly like sheep”, or perhaps “What type of God intentionally does something that will fail?” or maybe even “If God knows everything, and doesn’t want man to sin, why did he put that tree in the garden?”.

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Religion Vs. Science

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Ok, well the events of tonight have totally sucked.  To the extent that I am listening to my Pandora Vocal Chill station to try and mellow myself out, and on the fly purchased Star Wars: The Old Republic. I’m definitely not going to sleep anytime soon, so while I wait for the client to download and install, I figured I’d go through my old archive file to see if there were any posts that were worth saving, cleaning up and reposting.  I believe this post to be one of them, so will do my best to rewrite this monstrosity of a post.

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We don’t need to use proper citation; but we want people to believe us!

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So as I’ve been sitting here over the past few days, I’ve been trying to come up with something worthwhile for a first true post on the site after the initial revamp.  I really didn’t have anything until today.

Over the past few months I’ve begun listening to KCBI instead of music when I am out driving. This last week I heard a commercial on the radio for a new Christian website proclaiming to provide new information further confirming events in the book of Genesis as further proof that the story of the Bible is real.  I finally remembered to pull up the website today and take a read because I am interested in these types of things.

Aside from the introduction the site has 5 current pages with “Expositions” which have some fairly deep and in depth information that supposedly helps prove the book of Genesis and should absolutely confound any hardcore evolutionist.  Please note my wording in that last sentence in that it supposedly helps prove the book.  As much as I believe the Bible and like stuff like this, the problem that I have with this site and their writings is that there is ZERO citation, other than a paragraph in their “Strategy” section telling readers to essentially Google it (Not the words they use, but the point).

This is absolutely unbelievable, because they are asking people to get the word out about their website via the radio, word of mouth, etc. and to state this information as fact to evolutionist to see if they can dispute it.

As a Bible believing Christian the very first thing I asked myself is “What are your sources? Telling me to Google it is not a good answer, because you can find anything on Google (or any search engine), and even then, which link or source are you pulling some of your information from?”  As this is the very first question that I ask myself, it is also the very first question that I would expect an evolutionist to ask.  This means you have to be able to answer with something other than “Oh I got this information from <insert website>”, because the very next question is “Ok, then where did they get the information from?” and the answer absolutely cannot be “I don’t know, the website doesn’t say, they just say to look it up on the Internet for yourself”.

I’m sorry, but this is not acceptable, without citation there is practically zero credibility to what this site is trying to say.  There is a reason why people use citations in literature of all sorts, and that is to backup whatever it is they are trying to say with other information that can be verified.

With that said, as the site is fairly new and still trying to “get the word out”, I decided to click the contact us page, and be nice and request that they use some form of accepted citation such as MLA or APA , so that people can tell where they are getting some of their information other than “We got it from the Internet”.

The response I got back:

The material is really original, and the facts of history which are properly interpreted with this new material are easily confirmed via google, such as the greek kings Plato wrote lived in the timeframe of Atlantis.  And I believe the key words to be googled are noted, so I don’t think you have a point.

This response completely blows my mind.  I could respond back to the responder, however, at that point it would just become an argument, because this response is clearly from someone that has no desire for the work that they are supporting to even stand a chance at being viewed as using “Credible” information and something to think about.

I know that this site has never drawn much traffic, and this post will probably be no different, but I would consider it to be extremely rewarding and powerful if somehow this posting generated enough traffic and comments to the originating site so that they will change their policy on this, and use proper MLA or APA citation so that they have some form of basic credibility and cannot instantly be shot down based on the fact that there is none.