[[How has been]]

Saturday, April 30, 2016

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Ahhh! Perhaps it is the desire for familiarity that we mistake as the desire for something more fundamental.

[[I wrote this at]]*|11:12 PM|

Friday, April 29, 2016

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Just had a reasonably interesting conversation. With a person on the more conservative side of Christianity than me (usage of label is purely for ease of understanding, neutral term k). It is refreshing to come across these people, usually I am the one that pushes a more radical position in conversations.

I really like the amount of effort these people put into seeking the truth which they base off the Bible. And the strong yet theoretically grounded stance that is held. One ought hold such a stance especially wrt to sin and like, to oneself. One ought hold oneself to the right standards held in the Bible regardless of culture and whatnot.

It is a good reminder, when I have become tired, and sian of Christiany stuff. I am not comparing myself with the rest of the world, nor even the rest of Christians. The race is mine to run with others but it does not mean I should strive to outrun others nor to keep up with the pack, the race I must run to the best of my ability for God.

I am not particularly convinced that there is only one right interpretation of the Bible and that theirs is the closest to the right interpretation of the Bible. I mean by pure theoria perhaps there is one right interpretation that God would read it as such but like, it seems plausible that there can be interpretations that are competing yet not necessarily wrong and intended by God as such. While I agree with the methodology of like Bible interpret Bible and all, I think it is hard for one to say that one is the closest to the objective truth. I think it is relatively easier to see what is untrue than to know what is objective truth. Furthermore, there are passages of the Bible that really don't make much sense to me / most people and hence the amount of guesswork there is high. One would be hard pressed to be confident of one's own guesses in those passages. I think, the broad point is that it is hard to be certain of one's own interpretation is the only right one and lacking this, one ought not be overly prescriptive. Of course one should deny and guard against any heresy. There is a link here to the endtimes thingum that I will cover later.

Im not very sure how this ought to extend towards the local church, the church at large and other local churches though. I strongly believe that we are body of the church and ought to love the church as much as we love ourselves. But does that necessarily imply to treat the church as how we treat ourselves? Surely there is a difference in that one is corporate and the other is individual. Surely within the Bible itself there contain different guidelines?...

Seperation from other churches and criticism of the charismatic movement.

Not too sure about the choice of KJV too. Perhaps this calls for much greater in depth study before I can say anything. If I am not wrong (and I might be for this is an inferential step on my part) the argument goes that God has divinely preserved his word in acceptable/correct from since the canon was first completed. So... at each point of time there must be accurate text and the KJV is the follow through in this tradition. Thereafter, with the KJV, subsequent texts are not 'covered' under this preservation as the truth is ostensibly preserved within the KJV already. Later texts make reference/ take reference from supposed ancient, newly discovered manuscripts and so, do a jump back to the past so to speak. There is no guarantee that these discovered texts are closer to the truth of course, add in some other things about the hermeneutics used during translation of these texts adding meaning and you have a sort of case for the KJV based on two points, hermeneutics and the preservation thing..

What I am even less certain about is the endtimes thingum...

On this end, the danger is always of being a pharisee. Not accusing them of being one but yeah. The temptation is always to have much head knowledge and amass more head knowledge, perhaps even going into excessive interpretation and theorising and extrapolation without living out the basic life of love or giving lip service to it by being yknow, more concerned with other issues. I do think love reigns, even over like, differences over doctrine.

Ill just post this and edit it later/someday...

[[I wrote this at]]*|3:10 AM|

Monday, April 25, 2016

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Come all who are lost and we shall find the way together.

Fascinating that I havent written on this in so long. Perhaps the stuff that i wrote are all classified. It is too ugly a side of me, maybe. Really looking forward to more writing in the holidays or something like that! Now... to study for some pesky annoyances called exams for some worthless things called grades.

Perhaps grades have some instrumental value. some instrumental function. Do I want that which can be procured by grades? Maybe. Are there other ways of procuring these though... Possibly, I would think. Even highly likely.

Must synthesise the purpose of grades with purpose of jobs then and purpose of life. bullshit grades and bullshit jobs and bullshit life? something to do with appearances. Really looking forward to the summer project.

[[I wrote this at]]*|4:47 PM|

Thursday, April 14, 2016

[[Week 13]]

The allure is so strong. And no, I do not mean Dota.

Now I shall go back to writing the essays that I have due tomorrow.

[[I wrote this at]]*|11:54 PM|

Sunday, April 3, 2016

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What if God is more glorified in his grace towards the sinner at the last minute than the one who has served him all his life? Both gain eternal life, a denarius. How does the last become first and the first last, though?

Perhaps the first in wanting to be first becomes last. Hmmm.

[[I wrote this at]]*|12:33 AM|