Wednesday, July 21, 2010
flood of ink
Joey Arnold July 21 at 1:49pm
Dear Farmer Hanna (not to be confused with Applesauce Meg Ryan or Vanilla Yogurt Oprah), Tom Hanks (not to be confused with me) was once in the film titled, "You Got Mail" (not to be confused with the fact that you're going to get some mail from me in the form of a flood of some ink). Please let me know if you ever get it, snail mail is slow, real, but I'd like to know how long it takes for it to get to camp.
Hanna,
Now you have to forgive me, I'm sending you a book. I don't know if you like reading but I just had to do this. Ok, I'm not really sending you a book but you will have to forgive me for what I'm about to say in it.
I never got to say bye. I really don't like saying goodbye to anybody. It's like saying goodbye to your goats. It makes me cry. Do tough guys cry? I don't know but I do. But I don't really know how to say goodbye..
But anyways, I think you should rename those baby goats, continue to work on your music, your so talented, and continue to work on everything, thank you for being so nice to me, and please take care of that camp and farm for me.
I would actually love to see your songs, see more of those pictures on your phone, you know, but you already knew that.
But did you know you were my most favorite person at camp, I was so jealous of you and Oprah and vanilla yogurt, and that smile of yours and those eyes, etc, to be continued, ok, I better stop writing now, not that I want to stop writing, I got more to say but I don't want to keep you busy.
Again, I have to say you were too nice to me. I will never forget you. Thanks again. You don't know how much it all meant to me. Therefore, please keep it up.
Yours truly,
Joey Arnold
Hanna,
Now you have to forgive me, I'm sending you a book. I don't know if you like reading but I just had to do this. Ok, I'm not really sending you a book but you will have to forgive me for what I'm about to say in it.
I never got to say bye. I really don't like saying goodbye to anybody. It's like saying goodbye to your goats. It makes me cry. Do tough guys cry? I don't know but I do. But I don't really know how to say goodbye..
But anyways, I think you should rename those baby goats, continue to work on your music, your so talented, and continue to work on everything, thank you for being so nice to me, and please take care of that camp and farm for me.
I would actually love to see your songs, see more of those pictures on your phone, you know, but you already knew that.
But did you know you were my most favorite person at camp, I was so jealous of you and Oprah and vanilla yogurt, and that smile of yours and those eyes, etc, to be continued, ok, I better stop writing now, not that I want to stop writing, I got more to say but I don't want to keep you busy.
Again, I have to say you were too nice to me. I will never forget you. Thanks again. You don't know how much it all meant to me. Therefore, please keep it up.
Yours truly,
Joey Arnold
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I hope the question didn't offend anyone.
God does not rank sin as one being higher than another (except blasphemy which is the ultimate), but he does forgive us our sin.
So that we don't get sidetracked, sin is sin, right? So why do so many church folk condemn homosexuality or abortion, and not re-marriage? And how is one sin justified while others get the magnifying glass? Arash's post, I gotta say, spells this out pretty clearly.
Nero had a young man surgically altered to resemble a woman, married him in a public ceremony, paraded him through the streets and later himself became a wife to another man. Nero's homosexuality was what led to his paranoia which in turn led to the persecution of Christians and the burning of Rome, he is the most likely suspect behind the burning. The embracing of sexual sins and particularly homosexuality is what led to the fall of Rome. You will, also, remember Sodom and Gomorrah. Look at Romans 1:27. The homosexual suffers in this life "in their own person"... and in the life to come. The society that embraces immorality will be judged and suffer the consequences.
Are you referring to the shellfish haircut comment? That is completely handled by Paul numerous times in his letters.
Let me ask you, are you trying to help the Church by calling her to a more consistent and holier witness or are you trying to justify homosexuality? Do you think the Bible is errant and therefore that God is fallible that He couldn't give us an inerrant Bible?
Presumably, we're defining sin as it's laid out in the Bible, correct? Every sin isn't equal, according to the Bible. There are specific sins that require different sacrifices, or reparation, sometimes excommunication, or even death. Even when two people commit the same sin, depending on their level of office or responsibility, ... See Moredifferent sacrifices are required of them- less is required of a common person than of a priest. Praise be to God that He offered the ultimate atonement, amen?
While both Jesus and Paul speak against divorcing one's spouse and remarrying, there's always a specific context (i.e. divorcing a spouse for the sake of marrying another person), there's also admonitions to remarry (the first one that comes to mind is 1 Tim. 5:3-16, as well as numerous times in the Torah).
Regarding homosexuality – the problem with the Bible is that it doesn't change itself too terribly well to keep with what gets deemed by our society as acceptable. So, one of us is wrong.
The other issue is that, on some level, God's people are supposed to keep their believing brothers and sisters accountable, even possibly to a level that is uncomfortable to us:
'I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. Yet I certainly did not mean with sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner – not even to eat with such a person. For what have I to do with judging those who are outside? Do you not judge who are inside? But those who are outside God judges. Therefore, “put away from yourselves the evil person.” ' - 1 Cor. 5:9-13
Paul continues to note that the sexually immoral (among others) will not be received by God – but that's only if we don't turn to Him and seek to abandon the things He calls sin–
'Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.' - 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
God is not known for his lack of complexity.
But which sin is worse is a debate limited by perspective, by opinions, by interpretations, by stereotypes, by regrets from the past, by our eyes, by our views, by our mind, by all those things in which we are all stuck in to some extent. Ok, we are not all completely stuck in them but we were all stuck in them, in spiritual darkness, in depravity, in sin, and that effects our view, our judgment, on making the right calls on which is worse.
Sin takes us from the will of God, from what is best, from that path, that journey towards the promise land, towards destiny.
Sin is like the rocks and logs that trip us up on that mountain hike towards God's will, and which sin is worse, which sin is going to knock you off that mountain, which sin is going to get you down the most, which sin do you not like the most, or which sin is a bigger rock or log or hole really all depends.
Of course, which sins God hates the most is a question with an absolute answer to it, however, one key factor is in understanding the character to God first (which is love), that is where we must start with first especially since we don't want to go about all of this the wrong ways (or through the wrong motives of fear over love).
In other words, we don't want to go about searching for the answer to this Jeffrey Walters question in the wrong ways or through the wrong motives or intentions or whatever, that is why Theology (which journeys towards understanding God's character, God's Will, God's take on sin but moreover on God's take on living right) is key, get it, that is why Theology, I will say it again if I have to, that is why Theology is key in answering Jeffrey Walter's question, folks.