Well its been a while. Don’t you love how blog writers always say that.
So i’m almost 2 years through my 3 year degree! Going so quick.
We are having the first Esc(Esacpe) Lan this coming Saturday!!! Check out http://esclan.wordpress.com for more info.
As for the blog, it keeps chogging along. Interesting enough the “Anne Frank in Hell” post attracts alot of attention.
and God is still Good.
- Trent
'Creator' sort of implies something doesn't it?
Hey its been a while since i made a post and i am on holidays from college. So here i go !
So i was just thinking about the game SPORE and whether or not it was a Evolution propaganda tool. Turns out that when you think about it and some ‘science’ magazine did ( Read the article here ), the game is a poor representation of evolution and is more pro design from their educated perspective. I mean it makes sense the game really doesn’t function unless the player does something.
Here is an interesting excerpt from the article;
You might think that Spore’s fatal flaw would be that it supports intelligent design rather than Darwinian evolution. But it turns out to be not even that interesting. “Spore is essentially a very impressive, entertaining, and elaborate Mr. Potato Head that uses the language of evolution but none of the major principles,” conclude Gregory and Eldredge.
Intelligent design is a fatal flaw? Seems the fatal flaw is in the lack of intelligence. Ouch 
I started a Bachelor of Theology at SMBC Bible college this year, pretty much since then I really havent made much time for my blog! But what would you know it keeps on chugging along. I think i can thank google images for that one. If at the very least the little bit of internet gets people thinking about eternity then on she goes.
- Trent
Slayer stands for “Satan Laughs As You Eternally Rot”. Slayer are a heavy metal band I used to listen to some time ago before I was saved. Interestingly I have always equated the name of that band as being something quite Demonic and evil, something that representing my life and ignorance when I was living in Sin before God saved me.
But even more interesting ( to me at least) is the thought that – “Its true”. Satan most likly does find it amusing or gratifying that he has deceived many so easily into rejecting the true God. Its more than ironic to think people would be happy about it! and sing about it! But that is the very nature and success of the deception.
Revelation tells us that at some point in the future to come, Satan will be bound for 1000 years while Jesus reigns on earth and after that will be released again to deceive the nations. They will turn and fight with him against God. Absolultly amazing to think of. I have always struggled to get my mind around how that could be possible, but i need only to look at myself 10 years ago sitting in my room, deceived, singing to SLAYER with lyrics so dark and demonic I struggle to read them now as I right this blog.
Praise God! He has saved me. He is coming again! Pray He will save many more.
- Trent
Question – Whats the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of Heaven? I mean the very first thing, not the thing you think about after you think about it or reconsider it even briefly but the initial thought you had when you read the question.
Was it a state of sinlessness? Streets of Gold? Mansions? Clouds maybe? Was it Christ? I often relise that while there will be many awesome and wonderful things in heaven, things to look forward to, the fact that i am going to be with Jesus, my God and my savior should be my first and primary exhausting thought of being in Heaven. We are not only commanded but now given the capacity to Love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength. He should be the focus of our primary affections both now and future.
One of my resolutions this year is to Love the person of Jesus more and to pray that God would grow my love and desire to be with him one day and also to practically cultivate that love and passion. I want Christ to be my first thought when i think of heaven, what else could i need?
So, what did you think of?
Just wanted to share part of a discussion on a post on Ray comforts blog. It made me laugh, he’s a funny guy
Ray Comfort said…
<< JM Ridlon said…I also want to point out that instead of tackling the arguments that Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris make in their books, apologists just ridicule them and poke fun. Does anyone find this convincing? Ray, have you read “The God Delusion”, “God is Not Great” or “Letter to a Christian Nation”? If so, why not post on these? The books are afterall very popular and many Christians may wonder whether their arguments are valid.>>
I am more likely to read a book that is called “Why the Sun Doesn’t Exist, and Why it’s surface is Cold.” I would know by the title that the author is deluded.
Was recently (yesterday) introduced to the ministry and preaching of a Jewish Christian – Art Katz. I’m planning to share some more later on about Katz beliefs and teachings but for now wanted to share a quote for you from a Biographical Interview which i found interesting. This is part of the response from a question about the “Presence of God”. Remembering that Art has been part of the Pentecostal Church for some time.
I am concerned for the way in which the issue of God’s presence is now becoming a significant theme in contemporary church life, and we even have the audacity to think we can invoke it by performing something; for example, we think certain choruses or a style of worship will actually usher in God’s presence, which makes Him the respondent to our initiative, and that is dastardly. I oppose that greatly. There is a great emphasis now on experience and presence that is disturbing and of great concern, because it is not the preparation for the kind of Last Days obedience that will be required, with or without the sense of God’s presence. We are a sense-sated church, and so much disposed towards feeling; that is why we have even blurred the distinction between soul and spirit. If something revs us up and affects us emotionally, we automatically assume that that must be God. When our knowledge of God is so minimal, and we are hungry for experience, we will not be much concerned as to what the source of that experience is.
I have stood out like a proverbial sore thumb in the midst of the most electrifying view of people falling and crying, and I am strangely undisturbed and unaffected. Either I am the deadest man who cannot even be moved, or I have kept my spirit inviolate, and anything that comes to me as experience, if it is not conformable to and compatible with what I already have in the knowledge of God by the Spirit, then I will not allow entrance. I think that the church is presently paying a great price for its easy acceptance of anything that comes that is emotionally moving, whatever lifts them up; later on, the enemy who, has much call for that kind of thing, has a hook in those who have subscribed to it, such as this generation of people who puncture themselves, perforate themselves, tattoo themselves. With every such act, the enemy has gained access.
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