********Experiences?

Something I've just been thinking about. 
Has anyone but me ever notice how people, during any conversation can, if they want to, toss out a phrase or two that completely deflects one from the subject you were trying to convey.

 Of the endless ways this is done one of my favorites is , when someone wants to hold up ones experiences as a measuring stick to Guage any success or failure of whatever it is they are discussing at the time.

 Such an individual  thinks they have the upper hand in communication like this, but do they?


Some folks would call this blog,  my "experience" but they'd be wrong. Saying things like that is a popular deflection tactic that keeps people at odds.
Also , talking about ones experiences is a Christians way of not committing to anything. Chances are, my experience wont be your experience and since, these days, we guage things off the results rather than what brought us there, or the sum (of an equation) rather than the problem, we have odd sounding language m

(besides, our experiences shouldn't be the same  or that's kinda creepy)

All that matters is what God said plainly in His Word.

I once had someone tell me " you can argue an argument but you can't argue an experience" to which I would say "who says!?" 

The church is filled with this thinking, along with "connecting"  with someone  or something.

 Ever hear, 'we gotta connect with God' or.  'come to our church, a great place to connect with God '

Btw, what does that mean "connect with God?"  

I know what their trying to say but doesn't it imply at times I'm not connected with God? 

Ah, now enter "feelings."  See how this works? 

I'm sure all this connecting with God will yield to many experiences and I'm guessing that is the point. I'm all for listening to and sharing ones experiences but so often I'm told I must have one.. an experience that is, with God. 

Funny, I thought I was having one,daily that begins when my feet hit the floor in the morning and ends when I close my eyes at night then begins all over the next day. 

Oh, but that's not good enough for many. 

So many times, since reading God's Word as me not being the main subject, I've asked things like

 "how would we know"  to things of this nature.

If we need to attend church to connect with God, how will we know if we did? Are there any rules for this connecting, do some people connect and some people don't? Is having an experience evidence of connecting and what of the intensity of the experience? Maybe there's levels of experience /connecting. 

I'm basically having fun here but the point is, the language used creates something weird that can't be truly defined which leaves the one not having experiences the way others might deem them to have, scratching their heads. 

I know I could get myself in trouble here because one just doesn't mess with someone's experiences and truthfully, one's experiences are of the utmost highest, vital  importance and should not be messed with.

 Our experiences often times define us but as with everything else, the language used by many churches concerning experiences quite often creates something weird. Something where christian  young people are told to go out and have them before their ever shown what it means to be daily repenting  of there sins they commit  each day. 

 This new odd abstract, subjective understanding of experience has them accessing life via  these experiences rather than the completed work of the cross. I'm not just making that up and it's not my experience. 

Way to often, the real things that are taking place in our lives get shoved into the "experience bag" just by saying "well, that's just YOUR experience" placing the whole discussion in a subjective realm

 and before to long we can't discern between real & experience, (sadly) to the delight of many, I might add.

 At the end of my life, I do not want to be taking inventory of the experiences of my life and trying to determine if the good ones outweighed the bad ones. 

If my daily walk with God is not enough to sing praises to Him daily with whatever good, or not so good, comes along, maybe I'm not doing something right. 

 And if I'm so blessed to have an extraordinarily amazing over the top, out of the ordinary experience, praise God for that too. If People can be blessed from it, all the better. In every situation God be praised. 

I've heard it taught that James 1 indicates being joyful in all experiences but if my house burns down (bad experience for sure) should I do a happy dance. 

No.. It's the testing of our faith (faith in what?) faith in Christ that eventually brings a joy (note : God's joy, not ours) 
So much of Bible gets turned around in many ways.

I ended this post this way because if I made light of experiences, forgive me. Not the intent. 

My only point is, applying human wisdom to anything, even experiences, messes things up. 

Think about that the next time someone asks if you ever had an experience with God... And you can't think of one. Kinda sad needing too. Unless our daily service for God done out of a growing love for Jesus loving us when we were not so lovely isn't enough. 
 The Bible does have much to say concerning experiences that's for sure. My suggestion :

TryreadNit! 

********At the risk of sounding redundant, every so often I  wonder why I started blogging. 
After 9 yrs of keeping God's Word in context, the effects of that are nothing less than amazing. 
Maybe I find it therapeutic to share how everyday occurrences, develop a clearer and sharper perspective simple because God's Word is back where it belongs. 

I mentioned before, that quite often, Sunday morning sets the stage for the week. 
Believers all know that come Monday, we will spend a majority of the next six days, being influenced by a hostile (to God's truths) world. 

From news media to pop culture, it never ends. 
With each passing day, it becomes clearer and clearer that I've lost the ability to just jump into some popular subject, whether it's Christian or not, but jumping into these subjects, absent any context, makes conclusions many come too concerning, whatever is they are discussing, very confusing. 

Since Noone has time for adding context to any issue, well you can see, communication is challenging. 
I love small talk and I respect people's views and as long things are fine. as you don't ask why they believe what they do. 

I'm truly not crazy. But I have to watch pop culture lead our Christian kids, to unimaginable, heart breaking situations only to come back years later, and chase after MORE of what led to them astray, in the first place? 
Can't help but ask "will we ever learn?" 

The reasons for that become clearer as one examines the "free for all"  atmosphere of the visible church. 

It's only Tuesday and I've already considered two difficult issues. 
1)persecution of the church. I listened to an extreme position and a contextual one. What i came away with is a deeper desire to pray for persecuted Christians. 
And 2nd was, I was reminded from a brother in Christ I respect, Jesus words about "what we bind on earth....... bind in heaven" verses in Matthew. 

Prayer has been something I've been focusing on and that's why that came up. 
So many times, I'm reminded of of my not considering the consequences of no longer understanding christian language. 
Case in point, this brother in Christ asked if I had a, face to face, nose to nose, eye to eye type relationship with Jesus. 
If I had been quicker on my feet, I would have said "no, and neither do you." 

Look, I get what it means to have a relationship with Jesus. 
I just don't get the language we use to describe it. 

I am usually ok with biblical issues that are more dividing than others. 
Where I jump ship at, is when selected verses are used to support ones divided  view. 

Whether it's the rapture, the Millennium, Israel, the church, our faith, what we can bind, and so many christian beliefs that divide, I myself need time to sort through it. 

Since the time I first read the Bible , I've noticed that when it comes to dividing views, that contain many many interpretations, I'm more prone to adopt the view that's most consistent with all of scripture. 

Take for example,that subject that came up with a friend this week. 
Those verses about what we bind here on earth. 
Now I respect this friend so it was worth my time to re educate myself. 

Why would Jesus interrupt His line of thinking to inform us, in this apostate culture, that we can bind demons? 
That's a first question. 
Who was He talking to? Where were they? What was He talking about? 
What's the theme of the entire Bible? What keys is He talking about? 

That's not even a scratch on the surface of this subject. Point is, if someone is reading their Bible straight thru, beginning at Genesis, and if by the time you get to Matthew you think your gonna tackle satan, in any fashion, you might wanna check your hermeneutics. 

Man, I can just imagine the disgust that some might have over what they  "think" I just said. 


Key word there is "think"  because something else I've noticed, about communication, since reading vrs by vrs,in context is, that in most discussions, the first couple things that come to mind as I try to share what God's been doing..

That ain't it! Those initial things that come to ones minds are the things that need to be plowed thru, when seeking to get to the truth. 

Those initial things that comes to ones mind are the very things I no longer consider. 
In doing so, this has given proper insight (only God can give) to the Bible. 

God help us - part 1

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/07/07/chaffetz-claims-double-standard-in-clinton-case-as-comey-testifies.html





-*What happens, when we as a society look reason straight in the face, as is with the case with compromised emails, and with both hands, give it the bird?
True, that's a vulgar description.

If I had to choose the most frustrating thing , to the views I am about to share , it would have to be others labeling me as heartless and un caring. There are worse labels applied, such as bigoted and hateful. These labels are the consequences of putting things back into context. That is done by listening , asking questions and researching my beliefs.

I make no apologies for belonging to  an ever growing smaller segment of society that can still reason and interpret life  as it is, without having emotions and or past influences blur my opinions.

After all this time, we still don't understand liberals. The chief end to the liberal mindset is to wipe out that which they "feel" is destructive.

A time is coming (soon) where our ideas of conservative & liberal will only be found in museums ,  That is, until those museums are  they  themselves, destroyed.

A key element to liberal mindset is living in  a cultural climate  where concepts are forgotten.
That climate can't be created. It needs to be waited on patiently.
Mankind will inevitably develop an attitude of not caring.
When that happens, it's the perfect opportunity for liberals to enforce there destructive ideology.
And what better place to do that then our schools.
Colleges will eventually give way to the kids of the not caring parents. Harvard is a good example of that. Most people don't know the history of that place.
In order for them to forget history, these kids need to think , what they grew up with was bad. Create a problem where there is none thereby requiring a solution where none is needed. Call this "progress" and deception gets easy.

So many word meanings get lost. Add the word "progress" to that list.

After creating a problem where there was none, make these kids in college  believe , they can make it better.
Then they will come out of these colleges ready to get into the public schools as teachers.
And over time we will have a generation completely ignorant of all that is going on around them.

The worst thing for any young person to do today is to put back , whatever they are passionate about, put that back in its context. To do that would take research and would require them to go back to the beginning of the issue.

Since that is possible to do these days ( it's as simple as if it were in the palm of your hand) the best way to get young people to ignore context is to make them  "think" he/she is busy. Very busy.
Truth is, they wouldn't know busy if it wacked em in the head over and over.

And whats the fun of thinking your  busy , if no one knows about it. So they will need a place to post their lives .  They will think others care. Since each one posting is trying to out do the other, seeing that no one cares , will be missed.

Is it any wonder , that those who really were busy, building this country, would be indignant to this younger crowd.
Because the older never knew how to deal with the younger, they raised these kids thinking there was something called a generation gap. That concept only grew worse as time went on.

The truth about this thing called a generation gap was in reality,  good ideas, long forgotten.
Time is a liberals best friend.

Where liberals excel in patience, they lack in foresight.

Their visions of the the future are driven by exaggerated expectations of mankind's abilities.
Because of that, they are unaware of the third elephant in the room. That third elephant is currently something our whitehouse refuses to acknowledge.

Consider for a moment, what if this liberal delusional thinking had a public stage, to promote this abstract confusing way of life?

Well, it does.
The media.
And it doesn't matter if the media is for or against whatever they are espousing.
The time honored technique is to wear down any accusers.
The link below lays out, in a pretty good way. The link depicts a time honored strategy of the liberal mindset.

I do post links from these round the clock outlets but I'm no fan of them.
If a person sees a headline, indicating they will see graphic footage, and they click on the link to see it, which is worse?
The ones who made it available or the ones intentionally viewing it?
My best guess is, both.
They both have Deceived themselves.
The media, by thinking they are providing a service & the viewer, by thinking, he needs to know.

The delusion that has sprung forth from round the clock media, is so vast, I wonder if it's even worth addressing.
We all love it so much. It permeates every aspect of our being, prying it loose is impossible.

Since I won't score any points being honest, concerning the sacred cow known as 24 hr media, I'll just say, whatever "nobel"  intentions they may have had in the beginning, those very intentions are now working in reverse when it comes to affecting culture.

 'Absolutes'  are presented to a culture as, something they can "decide."
Before too long we are confronted with situations ,such as the link above , describes.
Situations that permit a seemingly intelligent man stare into the camera, in front of hundreds of thousands of people , and declare to them, that what they saw and heard was not what they saw or heard...and get away with it.

Don't our Bible's get presented the same way from the visible church?
Absolutes being presented as something we need to decide.
Beginning with salvation, to all the teachings of it, the Bible is presented to us in a same manner as conservative news.
They preach, we decide.

Decisions are being made by us non stop throughout the course of any day.
 Whether there are decisions being made or not..is not the point.



The point is, how things are presented.

If absolutes were to be  presented as they are (absolute) then, by nature, a decision will be made.
First is , the absolute needs to be presented.
Then  second, by nature and by definition,  a decision is made.
 If a person doesn't like the absolute, they leave it or dismiss it.
No harm, no foul, culturally speaking anyway. Decision made.
Pretty simple huh.

But we've flipped that.
We present  the absolute as a decision first, which has a person deciding if absolutes exist.
And we wonder about, how could a situation (as in link above) occurs.
I'm gonna share how I believe that happens  in part two,  of this post.

I have been working on these posts for some time now.
Trying to stay focused is the challenge.
The seriousness of it can't be missed.
When a culture exists that no longer can trust what they clearly see & hear, conveying to them God's Truth, to the next generation becomes nearly impossible.

As the landscape of this country changes , by the doing away with the current structure we have , as this gives way to a more "tolerant" way of life ( one that is anything but tolerant) Christian young people will not know how to respond because they "think" the Bible teaches and promotes tolerance. They think it teaches us to find our purpose in life. They confuse unity and tolerance by thinking they are the same.
Telling them the Bible teaches none of this, will fall on deaf ears.

As their children face inevitable persecution , they will think this is bad. They will seek to avoid it as best as possible. They fail to see the purpose of persecution. No one ever told them that persecution is Gods method of church growth. Since they never read their Bibles , how would they know what God actually thinks of all this.
Church history is not a concern of many so following their examples are not an option.

Even now, today, the makeup of this country is changing.
To most of us, the changing that is occurring is just some news story thats happening some place else.
Unless something happens on the street we live on, it seems to us, a far off.

Its kinda like hearing about a tornado thats wiped out a town. We see the pictures and know it happened. But unless you have actually lived through one, how would you know.
We tend to look at all of life like that.

Sadly, the fact that something is happening at all, isnt good enough.
Since there is little we can do about it, the next best thing is to get people to "think" they can do something.

Democrats and Republicans will soon be a thing of the past.
This system is all but dead.
Christians should be rejoicing . Not that we are gonna change the world. But in the fact that we won't change the world.
The world is the world.
It is what it is.
Are we not told, we are gonna have trouble in this world?
So what are we gonna change it too?
Not having trouble? C'mon people.

That is a fact that can be proven by scripture over and over. But Church's do not read from those passages. Those passages do not fit this cultures way of thinking. We think if we just tell people what Jesus did on the cross, that this will change the world.
I have seen churchs websites say in their mission statement , that Jesus died , to change the world.
Sorry charlie. No, He didn't.
Good luck trying to convey that to the modern church. They will just say "wont telling others about Jesus change the world?"

Do ya see how the slightest of change can effect something?
Its no longer, just telling others about Jesus. Now we gotta change the world too.
And when that doesn't happen, people scratch their heads and wonder..what went wrong.

Since we have a culture now of believing that what we see and hear, is not what we are seeing or hearing, getting christians too think the world is changing is easy.
We often hear stories of how Christian influences have changed a community or a culture. Lets face it, if, for example, Christians donate money to a community to have a well dug for them, we have definately changed their world.
But thats not what I am talking about here , and most people know that.

Its not in what we are saying, but how we are saying it.
Its a matter of law and Gospel.
We need to be telling a lost world , repent (law) and then tell of the cross (gospel)
Instead, we tell of the cross (gospel) and then go change the world (law)
Anything associated with doing something, is law.
If believers could just preach as Jesus taught us , and leave the changing to God, our Bibles make more sense.
The culture still stinks, but the Bible becomes clear.

Besides, all this "changing the world" stuff. The world is gonna change all right. But not in the way we are talking. But again, Gods changes do not fit todays christian thinking.
So Gods changes become the subject of hollywood future films, you know, those end of the world flicks that bring in tons of money at the box office.
And we wonder why we are screwed up.

And what about those who try to  warn others? They are labeled as crazy extremists. Discerning those who are to those who are false  has become a weary challenge due to, no one reads the Bible anymore so they don't have anything to compare whats being taught.
The criteria I use is, if someone is warning us as they use the entire council of God, I tend to believe them over some preacher who uses dozens and dozens of various verses.

These two types are easy to spot.
One leaves the person hopeful.
One leaves a person afraid. Or at least, confused.
People have bought the lie that no one can know. That lie is propelled by them hearing countless times.."that's just your opinion."
Which brings us back to where we started. Living in a world where absolutes no longer exist.

I will finish this in part 2.
The link below lays out the liberal methods used. I regret the program it appears on.
As long as I remember that this program, even though it calls itself news, is anything but news. I can glean the things that are true from it, as long as I call it what it is. Entertainment.


http://video.foxnews.com/v/5024081311001/how-the-clinton-campaign-responds-to-scandal/


as always
tryreadNit!

God help us - part 2

Last week has  been a week of senseless violence around the country with much talk on the violence in Dallas TX.

When reporting this violence, the common denominator that defines modern media  is severe delusion with intense blindness brought to us by a dominant liberal mindset.

Plz note, I am no longer concerned over the possibility I could offend a liberal minded believer or non believer.
I am becoming more and more convinced every day, that of all the things a liberal fears most, a mirror tops the list.
In other words, people simply do not desire seeing themselves as they truly are.

That's why the Bible these days
Is not welcome. It reveals who we are.
Besides us not being as wonderful as we think we are, the things we attempt to do, in solving the problem of violence, have zero effect on this culture.

Looking at life, this life and this culture, after having seen ourselves as we truly are, is a risky endeavor.

Those apart from the absolutes set forth by God, are completely clueless as to how to account for a culture  such as this.
In utter vain, they scramble their brains trying to give account for these violent acts of terror /murder.
We "think" our backgrounds have something to do with it.
We "think" maybe it's physical and  it could be medicines that might help.
Maybe less of this (guns) or more of that (love) , might be the answer.
Maybe if we were more tolerant?
Maybe if we stopped letting people in (our country)
And on and mercilessly on it goes.


Even Christians,  ignorant of God's complete Word,  struggle to fit this culture into the soundbites  they heard on some radio sermon or Sunday message.
These Christians don't even believe, what they think that Bible says.
 When someone asks them "how  can a loving God allow these things to occur"  , they have no answer.
The best they can do is to say God loves everyone and then invite them to church.

I am of the mindset that if a person could just see and hear for themselves, how easily we are Deceived, they will want to search more on there own, how that happened. I even began blogging thinking that.
But I'm beginning to see clearly, blind is blind.

Whether we like it or not (and most don't) there is no "fixing" this culture.
Try telling that to a pie in the sky younger  generation, one which thinks everything they do will make the world better. Try telling them that they won't be raising there kids in a similar culture that their parents and grandparents  had.
After telling that, try telling them, that's not a bad thing.
Trust me, they won't  believe you.

And why should they?
Those 30 and under were weaned (under the "watchful" eye of their parents) with a joystick in one hand and an iPad in the the other, leaving no room to pick up that Bible to get the truth.

Us parents "thought" we were giving them a better life than we had. After all, isn't that what our parents gave us?
By the time we figured it out, when junior wouldn't leave home, the thrill of getting to the next level has dominated there minds not to mention, the thrill of watching actual violence play out live, on their smart phone.


When it comes to explaining the violence in this country to christian young people, trying to undo the damage from a liberal media along with an emergent church, is an ever growing painful experience.

They both (church & media) preach the same thing, in different ways.
That were just a couple of laws away from, getting it right.
How long has it been, having each generation think they can do things better than the last?

How can christian parents (who've read God's Word) tell their kids that God's Word is against their Facebook posts.
Those (painful to read) posts are feelings deep inside them.

How can we tell them, that the church they love has its reasons for withholding massive parts of scripture from them.
Reasons they would find impossible to believe now.

Looking back now, the main thing that was missing, from churches from my upbringing, was passion in regards to God's Word. Even God Himself.
Passion.
That's what was missing.
I guess that's why the charismatic church grew.
Hey.. Drummed up passion is better than no passion, right?
But even passion can deceive a believer so letting down our guards for even a moment (or taking our eyes off Jesus)  can take a person far from the truth.


How I got this passion and love, for God's Word at the age of 54 is beyond me. I don't take this lightly. For God to bring me to this point, He had to trudge me through an unbelievable blessed & affluent society.
God reached thru all the effects a blessed society and has and rescued me from its deception.
If He did that for my wife and myself, He can do that for our kids.
Trusting in God while being raised in a blessed culture must be the most challenging ways to find God,simply due to the fact, most people fool themselves into believing everything is OK.
We interpret life thru circumstances and experiences.  Ever hear some Christian say "you must experience God?"
Of course we have.
Life was so amazingly good for us that my children had to invent their problems. Now thats an affluent society to be sure.

For as long as I can remember, I've thanked God for the most mundane of things we daily have. I've come into a land (by birth) that had in place, extraordinary blessings. From jam packed cereal isles to warm in the winter /cool in the summer cars to drive.
I, as many, never took that for granted.
But is that enough?
Yes & no.

Yes, if we know where all things come from..
and no, if we think we either had something to do with it or that we somehow deserve it.

People walk around all day, every day, enjoying God's nature, breathing God's air, using God's resources, marveling at God's wonders, they see the sun come up and the rain come down.

The number one reason that would keep anyone from seeing the truth , is the notion that we are all accountable to the One who provides it all.
Just think of marriages you know, where one spouse didn't see the worth of being accountable to the other,and watch how long it lasts.

I began this post considering the past weeks acts of violence around the country. From MN to LA to TX.
My intent was to convey that finding reasons for such acts are nearly impossible to find.
Explaining the truth to young believers is just as impossible. So whats the real problem?

Sin.

There. That's the reason. Now was that so hard to say?
Actually, yes. That's the toughest thing to say. Just ask any emergent church growth leader whose afraid to tell their congregation what sin is in fear they might mention something they are doing, and they would leave the church.
News flash : these people usually leave anyway.
It's even tougher for believers because they think they are exempt from these horrendous acts of violence they hear daily.

Today's believer takes on a notion of one standing outside the box (of culture) and wagging a finger at all the nasty stuff that takes place.
We kind of look at these things from afar.

Non believers deceive themselves into thinking it's there own will that keeps them off the headline news.
That's actually worse, in many ways.

So what do we have?
We have believers who think they couldn't be like those they see on the news..
and non believers who think they've kept themselves from being like those they see on the news.

So then..who the heck are these people , showing up on the news all the time, killing people.
Haven't people figured out yet, that its the news that determines whats important in most peoples heads?
They pick the stories that they think will create the most interest.
I mean, one person killed, thats nothing. But 5 people killed.
Ever wonder how, out of countless abductings that take place in this country , what criteria the news uses to report the ones they do? We say , they can't report them all. True. Thats why we have local news.
I'm talking mainstream news,cnn,fox.
Im guessing, the ones that get aired resemble CSI tv. But a missing child always brings in the viewers.
Add to that some bad guy (you know,those who the one watching could never be) and what people have is the same feeling generated after watching a batman movie. Where the good guy usually wins.

Its not the news that creates these nuts that kill people.
But the news goes a long ways as to shaping a cultures perspectives of it.
It makes me ill , every time I hear a reporter ask "what was the guy thinking , just before he killed 20 people."
I can just imagine that viewer whose watching this say.."yeah, what was he thinking" as if that would make any difference.
The only difference it makes is , it causes the one watching  (as well as the one reporting it) to ask themselves if they ever thought what that killer has thought.
If not, they are good.

If I sound cynical ,thats because I am. If I sound like I have no joy , you'd be right.
That joy, as defined by the christian and non christian culture , few have. That joy is a virtual kind of joy.

The Joy the Bible speaks of , I praise God I underservingly have.

So many believers  fail to see, that if not for God's Spirit living in them, they too have the potential being far from God. They too could be on fox news as a top story.

It's only by God's grace they are who they are in Christ.When that's seen clearly, Joy and passion for God, is not far behind.


My desire when posting this way, will always be the same.
We as Christians , need to be telling these young Christians behind us , to get into Gods complete Word.
They will need this , conflicting with cultures message , to have real answers to todays issues.
They will need this to teach their children ( our grandkids) the truth because they will wittness so much more then their parents ever did.
In these troubling days, we need [ and have ] something solid to be standing on.
My suggestion :
tryreadNit!

"I can't see, I can't see!" why not?

... "i got my eyes closed" 

I couldn't have said it any better.


This kinda speaks for itself. What we used to call treason we now call extreme carelessness.

Plz note the actual admissions made here.
That thought is for those who still care about facts.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/07/05/politics/fbi-director-doesnt-recommend-charges-against-hillary-clinton/index.html#


Sometimes I'm not sure what I'm more amazed at.
The things politicians get away with or, that there are still those trying to hold them accountable.

The ratio from those who don't give a rip to those that do care has to be hovering around 1000 /1.

When that kind of imbalance occurs in any culture, making that 1 who cares look like a bumbling bafoon isn't that tough.

Just put them in a three way news  box on TV  with a moderator in the middle and watch em slug it out.

That's what happens when a popular news outlet adopts the slogans
 - "we report, you decide"

I miss the days of when it was simply, "we report" (period)

Bible believing Christians should be taking notes here.
Lines are being drawn between those who view God's Word as absolute and the visible church and if anyone thinks those are the same, they've already been sipping at the Kool-aid and they may want to step back.

This next link points to the gathering clouds of a storm on the horizon


http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/07/05/iowa-some-churches-must-comply-with-transgender-bathroom-laws.html


To those who hold to God's Word, are you ready to take that stand even if it means opposing family & friends?

Christians think this is a joke. The Christian I'm talking about here are the ones who really have no clue what the Bible says.  They just know what someone says it says.


We can apply that same ratio I used earlier to - those who don't see the  visible church departing from biblical absolutes to those who do.
Again, those who see this will be easily recognized.

If someone asks you what ur problem is with transgender issues and you have no other   answer than, God loves us all, that could be a problem.
Or if they asked "how can a loving God allow a little boy be killed at a Disney resort" and your not sure, ya might wanna carve out some time in your busy life to read God's Word.

This is a nutty culture but it's not a time to be fearful.
It's a time to get grounded on something solid.
Best way to do that is by grabbing that Bible and

...Tryreadnit

So, what is the real issue here?

Of all the issues we tend to debate, abortion remains high on the curiosity level.
The most frightening of all things, to anyone on either side is  for that person to examine their own reasons for the very things they believe.
I've stated quite often  on this blog, that something happens when we begin asking others, or even ourselves, why we believe what we believe.
I and constantly amazed at the lengths we will go, to avoid doing just that.
Whether we're christian or not, liberal or not, makes no difference.
It's in our nature to allow a variety of influences effect what we believe or don't believe.
Am I the only one that finds it odd that in this ever growing information age we live in, 'information' rarely shows up, as a factor when discerning things.
Those who gather information, to create and support their opinion on social issues are labeled as nuts.

I'll tell ya, when a person gets to the point I, and many others, are at, which is a point of asking questions and slowing things down, crazy things happen.

Stop to ponder, just a brief moment, if you dare, how abortion even became a federal issue, in the first place.
Pondering how the Supreme Court got its hands on the issue of abortion could either cause that person to spiral into an abyss of utter lunacy or it could be the spark that ignites a curiosity that seeks answers.
I'm familiar with that "spark."  For me, the spark was upon learning how scripture became so twisted. Once that spark was lit, it grew and spread into all areas.
I haven't discovered some new thing here. It's just, people who ask questions don't belong in this culture. People believe what they want.  All they have to do is call it freedom an that's it. Done.
Amazing.
Asking questions takes that person (eventually) to the beginning of any issue. This frightens most in this culture because they know this  has the possibility to get them to consider that there is something that is greater than themselves and that something is in control. But that's not the scary part for them. The scary part is that maybe, just maybe, they are accountable to that 'something.'
Mankind simply can't abide by that so they wind up believing anything & everything.

The way this manifests itself in the visible church is, people will consider something greater than themselves, but they are gonna approach that their way.
Needless to say, that creates it's own mess.

We just love to complicate the simple. It's what we do, best.
I guess I needed to take that little detour of thought to introduce this link.
All it is, is common language used, that we all bought into, concerning yet another issue placed in an area it was not meant for. This happens when men in robes think they can decide things that's already been decided.
I'm thankful for our judicial system of laws and courts and judges as well as being innocent until proven guilty.
The real issue in this article about the Supreme Courts decision, isn't abortion.

It's, overreach.
We no longer understand the power Congress  has. We've lost site of the courts limitations.


This issue of abortion isn't the same criteria as robbery or murder.
Seeing how misconceptions, via word deconstruction,  happens to be a running theme to this blog.
Language deconstruction. There's your culprit. And we've allowed it. Here's the article :

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/06/27/supreme-court-strikes-down-texas-abortion-law.html


Seeing the trickery to language isn't so easily spotted here. It takes time to recognize it but when you see it in one place, spotting it in others gets easier. Look at these sentences.

Phrases like :
-->"these restrictions harm women's health "

This tactic alarms the reader. We create this alarm where there is none.
If it wasn't so destructive, it would be quite ingenious.


-->" place an unconstitutional obstacle in the path of a woman's reproductive freedom,"

If we can get people to be alarmed over things that are not alarming, getting that person to think freedom is at stake is a snap. Just redefine freedom and you got em.


-->"We remain strongly committed to the protection of women's health, "

Here again, set the premise based on being alarmed over nothing. Again, ingenious.

~>" her right to determine her own future."

~>"a victory for women"

~>"Women won't be 'punished' for exercising their basic rights. "

If it wasn't so painfully sad, this might be funny.
People believing things based on criteria established long before, many who believe it, were born.
Influences become a standard for our beliefs (whether we like it or not)



So, what is it that has everyone in a panic?

 ~>The Texas law required all clinics performing abortions in the state to operate as certified “ambulatory surgical centers,” which would be regulated under the same standards as hospitals.

Only those who favor terminology such as 'illegal immigrant" would object to such a proposal.

 ~>Doctors who performed abortions were also required to first obtain admitting privileges at nearby hospitals. 
Proponents of the law argued it would improve patient care and safety, though abortion rights groups contended the law made it nearly impossible to operate a clinic in Texas.

If your reading this article to fast, you might miss the double standard set in place here.



A dissenting judge said :

~>"When we decide cases on particularly controversial issues,"

How is it  that an uninformed person who ignores science & reason, can disagree with something thereby creating controversy?


That judge also said :

~>"we should take special care to apply settled procedural rules in a neutral manner," Alito wrote in his dissent. "The Court has not done that here."

Now here is a classic. Sentences like this are the reasons why those who properly see this issue as it truly is, object to the courts thinking.
People think those who hold to absolutes, object this thinking
 because of their claim to some higher moral ground.
But when your up against such logic like this (and from our "side" supposedly) how can one objectively counter it?
How does one apply "rules" to something that's "neutral?"


Everything this blog is about is wrapped up in this.
There is no neutrality to the issue of abortion.
The language deconstruction is needed so as to allow the one seeking this procedure a softer view of themselves.

Everyone (deep down) knows the truth. We just don't want to face it.
This country was formed as to allow anyone to do what they want. That fact has been established.
We can choose. Right or wrong.

The struggle isn't with some issue or with those with opposing views.

The struggle is in each person. The battle ground is right & wrong.

The greatest foe in this, is themselves.

Any "victory" in this battle is when one can reconcile their beliefs.

Simply put, there is no attack on woman, women did not have any victory from this court decision.
All we have gained is more cowardly people afraid to see themselves as they really are.
So when someone comes along wanting to apply "rules" to neutral matters, we buy it  hook, line and sinker. Never mind  it makes no sense.

The visible church has perfected the art of not calling things what they are.
This is the sole purpose for change definitions to words,in this culture.

The best way to hide that, is too get people arguing over the issue itself. This has been going on a long long time and many of us grew up under it and have given birth to those now believing it and or, enforcing it.

It's like the tale - the emperor has no clothes.
In this culture, the boy who pointed out the king was naked, is not welcome.
The boy didn't do anything wrong.

This culture is famous for avoiding themselves.
That's why Facebook is so popular. There, they can create a whole new world.

The reason people who see themselves as they are, will never win an argument with a liberal, shows up in this next quote from article.

~>Thomas wrote that the decision "exemplifies the court's troubling tendency `to bend the rules when any effort to limit abortion, or even to speak in opposition to abortion, is at issue."'

Liberals don't even apply to themselves, the so called standards they" believe. "
They can change direction within the debate they are having, concerning any issue.
That happens when they sense getting to close to seeing who they really are. Facts and figures mean nothing to them.

One can quickly see how a loving God who forgives might present a problem to them.
America has become a land where much time, money & energy is devoted to keeping us in denial.

This is why I post like this  and have this blog.
To illustrate how words can be manipulated to create exaggerated abstract viewpoints.
I also want to encourage  believers to read God's Word.
A day will come in all of us, when the "light comes on" and we see ourselves as we truly are.
When that happens, the deciding factor as to which way one will go depends on what we are standing on.



I just now had a disturbing thought come to mind, as I finished that last paragraph.
Since I'm currently listening to the book of Job, in the Bible, the thought comes from that.
I might post on this later.

The thought I had just now was..

Do I think I'm Elihu?

Read Job. He was the arrogant friend who thought he knew it all and was always right and never wrong.
No!  I'm not an Elihu. I need to stay ever mindful why I post like this and why I blog.

The reason is, my frustration concerning how so many dismiss absolutes.
The sin is, my not trusting God more.
My prayer is, these thoughts, on this blog  might cause one to think.

Till next time,. Tryreadnit!