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The Legal Effects of Christ Coming to Earth as a Baby
The Legal Effects of Christ Coming to Earth as a Baby
Before we can understand the legal effect of Christ being born in a stable in Bethlehem approximately two thousand years ago, we first have to understand what the earth’s and humanity’s legal status was before.
Adam and Eve, and, by family relation, all their descendants, were criminals before God. And not just any criminals; they were traitors who had defied a specific, simple law to not eat of one of the trees in the Garden in which God had placed them. They defied God and His law, they trespassed upon property which God had reserved for Himself, they stole from that property, and they conspired with God’s chief enemy in order to attempt to take God’s rule from Him. We know this from the account in Genesis chapters Continue reading “The Legal Effects of Christ Coming to Earth as a Baby”
The Matrix – Post 5
The Matrix – Neo
Even though Neo begins like someone having his eyes opened to the reality that the world is, like a Christian being born again, the movie portrays Neo becoming an obvious Christ figure. To simplify, he dies, rises again, and thereby lives in total control of the Matrix, unable to be defeated by the Agents of the Machine but able to decode and devour them from the inside out. But if it were that simple, the movie would not be genius, and it is genius.
The Matrix – Post 3
The Matrix – Caveats
Having made some glowing statements about this movie, I have to add some caveats. First, there is a dearth of explicit reference to sin or anything comparable. Normally, I wouldn’t demand a movie present each aspect of orthodox theology, but The Matrix follows that theology so closely, it seemed important to me that something so important not be left out. Otherwise, one could interpret this movie as some sort of gnostic presentation, which it may have been intended to be. I do not know.
Is it a Sin by a Reformed Church to Deny Communion to Baptized Children?
It Is An Offense to Deny Communion to Baptized Children
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I had to leave my church service prior to communion one night recently because of the minister’s reading of the basis for excluding children from the Table. How can I enjoy the Lord’s Supper, when my younger brothers and sisters are being unjustifiably excluded? Could such be an offense against one of these little ones?
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Inception – post 2
Inception 2 – Sin & Reality
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In Inception, death is a constant presence. It moves a person from one form of reality to another. However, Dom’s imagination, the memory of his wife, the guilt he lives with keeps him returning to a fantasy world of the mind. That fantasy world is an attraction, a pull, even a call to death. It is what draws him to what killed his wife, and it keeps him from the reality of his own children. Is not sin a belief in more than one reality, as Mal asks at the end? Therefore, what can destroy Dom is his sin? Sin allures us with attractive fantasies, and it justifies our engaging in it because their can’t be just one reality, that of God and His just hatred of sin.