“But not knowing Him does not just result in Hell later. It also means that when we refuse to acknowledge Him here and now, the end result is that we start building little prototypes of Hell in order to test drive them. And that is why the public square rapidly becomes a haunt for owls and jackals.”
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Monkey See, Monkey Do: Direct Hit: About Sums It Up: Latest Results Are Now In: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Bitterness Has Good Study Habits—Review, Review, Review: HT: Samuel Cherubin: Jason de Graaf Featured Product: Calvinism 4.0:The subtitle of this book is “Basic Calvinism and Then Some.” The idea is to review …
Their Idea of Real Compassion
“They haul you away to their reeducation centers more in pity than in anger.”
Only Seems Sudden
“Sudden apostasies only seem sudden. How do you go bankrupt? First gradually, and then suddenly. That last bit is what everybody notices, but it was a long time coming.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 34
A Hole Under His Nose
We now come to our third installment on wealth, as we continue to discuss Proverbs, money, and you. The first and second installments are here and here, and we are now on to the third, which is a consideration ...
Which Anchor?
“For the sake of additional clarity, let’s call this toxic form of empathy ‘untethered empathy.’ But that immediately raises a question. This pathos, this feeling: what is it untethered from? It is untethered from God, from His Word, from His people, and from His world. A person’s feelings are disconnected from absolutely everything else—and your feelings are disconnected from everything but their feelings. This is the logic of the outer darkness.”
Keep Your Kids, p. 32
If I Could Prove Them, They Wouldn’t Be Axioms
“Being a creature, I reason from axioms and decline the invitation to prove my axioms.”
Letters Intended for the Edification of All
Letter to the Editor: The link here is the apology/acknowledgement of Stated Clerk’s office of PCA. Jerry Jerry, thanks. This is good to see. Letter to the Editor: ...
Anchored or Not
“With sympathy, there is an objective solution outside of and independent from anyone’s feelings. It’s objectively true. But with empathy, feelings are the only reality that may be considered to taken into account. With empathy, feelings are the only game in town—and if you’re not empathizing, then you are judgmental and hateful.”
Keep Your Kids, pp. 31-32
Unnecessary Redundancy
“But Job attributed all of it to God and submitted to God’s will in it. The fact that he recognized the hand of the Lord in all of it, and accepted that loss from the Lord, did not mean that he had acquiesced to a new economic theory as developed by Chaldean raiding parties, or socialists, but I repeat myself.”