Day: January 27, 2021

i APOLIGIZE BUT CANNOT POST.FOR NOW.

i STARTED TO PACK AND i AM LOSING MY MIND, LOL

TOO MUCH TO DO AND LITTLE TIME.

PLEASE BE PATIENTE AND CHECK MY OLDER POSTS.

I WILL DO WHAT I CAN TOMORROW NIGHT AND TRY TO POST SOMETHING BEFORE RESTARTING PACKING IN THE MORNING.

I APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE AND LOYALTY,

LOVE YOU ALL,

GOD BLESS YOU,

LATER,

Day 22

Prayer:

Heavenly Father, give us wisdom, understanding, insight, and revelation, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

John 4: 19-26, Woman of Samaria, Part 3.

VV 19-20l 19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

Sensing that Jesus had prophetic ability, she called Him a prophet and started to talk about religion and God.

VV 21-22, 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.

Jesus downplayed the place of worship. The Samaritan’s ignorant of God led to erroneous worship. Salvation was for the Jews first before the…

Duration: 365 days

PARADOX, MYSTERY, AND CONTRADICTION

The influence of various movements within our culture such as New Age, Eastern religion, and irrational philosophy have led to a crisis of understanding. A new form of mysticism has arisen that exalts the absurd as a hallmark of religious truth. We think of the Zen-Buddhist maxim that “God is one hand clapping” as an illustration of this pattern.

To say that God is one hand clapping sounds profound. It puzzles the conscious mind because it strikes against normal patterns of thought. It sounds “deep” and intriguing until we analyze it carefully and discover that at root it is simply a nonsense statement.

Irrationality is a type of mental chaos. It rests upon a confusion that is at odds with the Author of all truth who is not an author of confusion.

Biblical Christianity is vulnerable to such strands of exalted irrationality because…