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Hi all – I will when I get round to it add a blog thingy for you all to have your own blogs here – so it’s not just me writing (spouting:) my opinions. On 101 we all need to agree from the start to be kind – discuss – then seek the still small voice for enlightenment, above opinions and commentaries which though useful – seem to play too big a role nowadays in my opinion. The Holy Spirit – the bible says – will teach you ALL things – amazing! God it seems even made provision for those without churches or volumes of commentaries or who find themselves isolated. The Bible also interestingly says avoid endless debating so let’s be careful there too, as it’s easy to get into Twitter-like mud-slinging matches when we disagree.
We Christians must be careful not to follow the world’s example – media and the Internet (our adversary’s best tool it seems) and sites like Twitter has turned us adults into mud-slinging twits
A lot of us Christians have VERY different ideas on Christianity and yes that unfortunate necessity politics – indeed that’s why we have 10,000 denominations which is kind-of laughable when you consider they are often insisting the other is totally wrong, and calling each other heretics! Let’s not forget – many denominations came about through men’s pride, unable to sit down and reason together. All men, including myself are at worst all wrong – or at best – partly right (we all see through a glass darkly right?). The Bible on the other hand, and Holy Spirit – are always right. So I think in todays exacting hyper-critical technocratic society coming into view we Christians need to unify without compromise, if our faith is is not going to be dismissed as out-of-touch with reality and foolish. And I’m not talking ecumenism. So how is that done?.. well, it’s going to be impossible if we rely on our own understanding, or without The Holy Spirit I’d say. No easy task.
Jesus’ example and The Bible should be our focus in very distracting times
I for one have been through the whole – I’m not sure how to describe it other than the soft – seeker-friendly phase that many of us do as young Christians trying to make sense of all he trouble in the world (not wanting to be patronising as there will be folks in the world – probably in harsher places that in comparison will make me look like a baby Christian) but as I’ve got older I see a much more serious side of the Christian faith coming into view – the real Jesus we are to emulate in terms of suffering persecution that is perhaps not far away.
We seem to have had – not thanks to nice politicians, but thanks to many men and women giving up their lives – a rather golden era of peace in the world for the last 60 years since the world wars – at least where I am writing from that am very thankful for, as it’s perhaps been the only time in history like it. I think the wars shocked everyone into a kind of sensibility, but human nature is fickle and not we are not unlike goldfish, and succeeding generations soon forget, and are unlikely to be educated on how rightly or wrongly that peace came about – through blood – not just by magic, or by folks being nice.
Anyway – I’m not sure where that all came from but yes – blogs and other features on the way I hope!
Bless you all – Edward.
