President
Trump will be making one of his rare prime time televised speeches tomorrow
night to explain the government shut down and the need for the border wall to
the American people. I just hope he
won’t use the speech to declare a national emergency or anything like
that. Norman Goldman says he’s going to
boycott the speech. We live in scarey
times. President Trump has reversed his
position on two issues. He’s decided
that maybe we don’t want to get out of Syria after all because ISIS isn’t
really defeated. Also to keep his
political base happy, the income tax refunds will be sent out, because his
redneck friends voted for that. This
shut-down has lasted sixteen days, which is about the longest of any shut-down
and is even longer than the “Monica Luinsky” shut-down of late 1995. I would tell you to pray for our country but
I’m not entirely sure God is swayed by moral arguments. I’ve made a lot of “moral arguments” with God
and it hasn’t helped. It’s pretty much a
case of “what’s already in the script”.
Then it was “God Friended Me”. If I were to come up with a functional
definition of “friending” I would say it’s God inviting you into his decision
making powers. There are portions of the
“script” that are left blank and he leaves it to you how he will finish those
final lines in it. We’d all like to be
“friended” by God. (Selah) We were shown
that snail shell spiral pattern of sites based on the Golden Mean. That guy at the center of it all wasn’t there
but some woman was and she had a story to tell.
Everything is a wild goose chase.
I went to bed just after “NCIS Los Angeles” came on.
At
twelve noon I turned on the TV for Gavin Nusin’s swearing in and speech. I didn’t vote for him because I thought he was
too liberal. Now we have him for four
years. Taking the oath of office was supposed to take place at noon but the new
governor was already in the middle of his speech, which lasted another twenty
minutes. It was a “feel good” speech
which sounded more like a campaign speech full of promises and clichés rather
than a down to earth speech on the hard decisions Californians have to make today. They said he was going to raise taxes even
higher and that spending would be stepped up on all new programs we may not be
able to afford. I went out and talked
with Phyllis a while. When I returned
they were doing “Swamp Watch” on KFI. On
Days of our Lives- - - Zander came back from the dead to torment Victor some
more, as I figured he would do sooner or later with the authors signing off on
it. Sierra questioned Ben Weston about
his kidnapping of Gabriel. He denied
kidnapping Gabriel when Hope was there but when she left he confessed it to
Sierra. He doesn’t want to lie to
her. Now she’s “not sure” whether she
can live with a boyfriend who kidnaps and beats up people for a living. Jack left off the love making with Eve to “go
out and find some answers” to his life.
Of course we are to assume that Jack’s amnesia is curable by “Dr
Rolph’s” serum. I got fruit cocktail in
the hall. Then Joselyn told me about the
Bible Study and after I made myself a cup of coffee I joined them and signed
the sheet. They were going to do a study
on the prodigal son and I guess “I’ve heard it”. In the Bible Walter Martin points out that
saints are never referred to as “pigs” or “dogs”, but people who return to sin
are, which means they were never sheep to begin with, in keeping with the
Calvinist tradition. If you’re a “sheep”
then you are one of the good guys no matter what you do and you’ve always been
a good guy.
This is Tuesday January 8th and Elvis would be 84 if he were still alive. The consumer electronics show is going on in Las Vegas this week. Now they are doing a parody of "California Girls"on the Stephanie Miller show. We'll have a concluding paragraph after a while.
If you wish to dig down and find the very roots of "The Church" your problem is that often you just aren't radical enough in your thinking. "Radical" means root. Even if an enlightened statement pops into your mind you are bound to reject it. "Christ wasn't declared sinless because after an exhaustive look at his life the Church concluded that he was sinless. Rather "Christ" was first defined as sinless. Then the Church sought about searching for a shell life to fill up with their newfound theology. As we have told you over postings over the past few weeks, the real Jesus left Jerusalem. This was perhaps part of a deal made with Pilate the governor. He went first to Egypt perhaps to be introduced to the theology of Philo of Alexandria, and from there he made his move to Rom, perhaps to be with his biological father, who was perhaps Roman. I believe the name "Christian" first originated in Rome and not in Antioch. Meanwhile I believe Judas Iscariot, who attempted to betray Jesus the Nazarite, was perhaps a scribe or a pharicee. He was well versed in higher Jewish theology and the Law. It is said that when Elvis died, someone, perhaps Col Tom Parker quipped, "Good carrier move". Judas was crucified on the cross by popular demand. When Judas died many in the priestly pharisiac school viewed him as a martyr for Jewish temple theology, which was a dying breed in first century Palestine. Still I believe evolution of the theology of someone being a human sacrifice to atone for human sin was a slow one. But after the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD the necessity for an alternative theology became apparent. You know what they say- - necessity is the mother of invention. From then on there were "Believers" in this new theology. I believe this ransom sacrifice for sinful man theology spread to Syria. I'm not sure where the Apostle Paul was from. But he'd obviously heard the theology of Marcion and adopted port of it. He believed that we were "redeemed" not only from sins- - - but from the Law itself. He also believed in what I call the "Marcion wall of separation" from the Moral and the Physical world. He also had a distrust of "created" angels as Marcion did. Paul was also influenced by the Book of Enoch and books have pointed out phrases in common. But there is one more thing that got Paul going preaching his message. This was the death of Apolonius of Tyannus in Asia Minor. There were believers in this new Messiah. Paul sought to piggy back on this. Paul had very little knowledge of the real Jesus and did not consider quoting his sayings, if he was even aware of them. this was Paul's "Gospell". He did not know of gospels, plural, if they even existed yet. Instead by the Gospel he meant his own "Good News" about the human condition. From Marcion as well as gnosticism, was added the notion of "Salvation" and regeneration to New Life.
If you wish to dig down and find the very roots of "The Church" your problem is that often you just aren't radical enough in your thinking. "Radical" means root. Even if an enlightened statement pops into your mind you are bound to reject it. "Christ wasn't declared sinless because after an exhaustive look at his life the Church concluded that he was sinless. Rather "Christ" was first defined as sinless. Then the Church sought about searching for a shell life to fill up with their newfound theology. As we have told you over postings over the past few weeks, the real Jesus left Jerusalem. This was perhaps part of a deal made with Pilate the governor. He went first to Egypt perhaps to be introduced to the theology of Philo of Alexandria, and from there he made his move to Rom, perhaps to be with his biological father, who was perhaps Roman. I believe the name "Christian" first originated in Rome and not in Antioch. Meanwhile I believe Judas Iscariot, who attempted to betray Jesus the Nazarite, was perhaps a scribe or a pharicee. He was well versed in higher Jewish theology and the Law. It is said that when Elvis died, someone, perhaps Col Tom Parker quipped, "Good carrier move". Judas was crucified on the cross by popular demand. When Judas died many in the priestly pharisiac school viewed him as a martyr for Jewish temple theology, which was a dying breed in first century Palestine. Still I believe evolution of the theology of someone being a human sacrifice to atone for human sin was a slow one. But after the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD the necessity for an alternative theology became apparent. You know what they say- - necessity is the mother of invention. From then on there were "Believers" in this new theology. I believe this ransom sacrifice for sinful man theology spread to Syria. I'm not sure where the Apostle Paul was from. But he'd obviously heard the theology of Marcion and adopted port of it. He believed that we were "redeemed" not only from sins- - - but from the Law itself. He also believed in what I call the "Marcion wall of separation" from the Moral and the Physical world. He also had a distrust of "created" angels as Marcion did. Paul was also influenced by the Book of Enoch and books have pointed out phrases in common. But there is one more thing that got Paul going preaching his message. This was the death of Apolonius of Tyannus in Asia Minor. There were believers in this new Messiah. Paul sought to piggy back on this. Paul had very little knowledge of the real Jesus and did not consider quoting his sayings, if he was even aware of them. this was Paul's "Gospell". He did not know of gospels, plural, if they even existed yet. Instead by the Gospel he meant his own "Good News" about the human condition. From Marcion as well as gnosticism, was added the notion of "Salvation" and regeneration to New Life.
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