Category: Ministry

Song of Songs

Song of Songs. Yes, dating is biblical. There's no boundary on true love. In fact, Solomon, taking the woman into his harem, is kind of made to be the bad guy, stealing from the shepherd his true love, which the Shepherd has to win back like a stag jousting for his doe. The Shepherd and Shulamite even go out into the fields to make love, as she escapes the harem at night. Pretty sultry stuff... and romantic.

The point being, when it's real you know, and nothing's going to stop you from being with that person, even a whole king and his court.

Which is also why the Psalmist says, "I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not stir up or awaken love until it is ready!" because the passion is hot, and if it's stirred for the wrong person, can be heartbreaking. So guard yourself, too, from falling in love, unless absolutely right.

Solomon loves her for her body, but the Shepherd for her soul. That's important, too. That's why the Shepherd fights, and beats him. As if there were no passion stirred, a man cannot fight for his suitor, because A: she doesn't want him and B: he doesn't love her.

The Book of Enoch

Enoch is not Scripture. It's not even Apocrypha. It seems kind of cultish, actually, like a Book of Mormon and Koran. I hope nobody {}lays it as [a] foundation, as it's not pure, but rather empty and kind of evil. I've known many people ruined by it. It's not good teaching, but is a cult text. If you want other books to study, try the Apostolic Fathers or the Old Testament Apocrypha. Or Martyr's Mirror by Thielman Van Braght. None of that is scripture, but it's better teaching than Enoch, which is completely void.

The White Rider

He came with God's perfect law
And left the whole world stunned.
He came, and dazzled, and grew to all
A man who was God's bastard son.

Beelzebub, a Satyr red, 
In hoofed haunches stormed
He, like Emperor of Rome, it seemed
Made play like he was stormed. 

Their two armies did collide
And piles were the bodies made.
One man with an old, old story
Was wise to them, and was a saint.

He saw the White Rider with his reel
Take his hordes through the country gate---
Two great bastions of that Roman World
Would do battle, and many men's a mortal fate.

For neither to the left or right
Is what Christ had told us that day.
Do not fall from the narrow road
And enter through the wicket gate.

1 =/= 2

1 can never equal 2. That's impossible. Except to say that 2 inches equals 5.08 centimeters, but there's a conversion formula for that. We need to relearn number theory, as a society. So we don't end up making 1=2, as it never will.

[If] you subtracted out a similar term, and unbalanced the equation, [or something like it] the equality has to be equal the whole time, for it to work. We used to know that... it was the whole premise of my High School Education. I think the Internet made people braindead.

[T]his is a qualm I have with the internet, that it's literally making people forget some of the most basic things.

{}Some people try to make that point, [like in common core math, or they call math a "Western Concept"] these days. It's a strange world we live in.

I don't know... I was taught the equation has to always be equal, hence the term equation. You see where you reduced it, it's no longer equal.

In fact, in language that's how we have knowledge, too, is when empirical facts start equating, or things in the real world start being described. Like Geometry. Not many people relate math back to geometry, but that's where our entire knowledge of number and algebra comes from, is studying shapes, and deriving axioms of logic around it. And in fact, the evidence for the Bible does this very well, in archeology, ethics and also psychology.

Tatian

[W]e have almost the entire corpus of the Gospels in the Diatesarron, and in them, from at the latest 180AD, we see statements of Christ's divinity. And he was a heretic who wrote it, but they're all quotations from the Gospels, directly. We can safely assume the Gospels are 100% perfect. He was trying to unify them, when we need them in those four separate sources, to account their witness, but it's all there, and early. And we know from that, the Gospels are highly established, as they're being referenced to, to compile the document. And Mark is the least quoted of all four.

Papias is clearly relating the “Elders” to the “Apostles” so when he qualifies “The Elder John” he can only mean the Apostle John, as why include that epithet otherwise, and not for Aristion, whom he calls both “Disciples”. Other Fragments relating Church History show that Papias may have dictated the Book of John from the very same. And Papias also authenticates the episode of the woman caught in adultery.

The Holy Bible

No Santa Clause dawns its pages
But a truth about life, without illusions.
People suffer, and especially the good.
There are very few happy portraits
In the holy scripture, but rather mourning
At every page, and war... even love is strife.
"Vanity vanity", thus let me mourn here
A little while, and hate my life.
So I may enter into a better Earth 
And better Heaven, where I can have
My sweet and fat; and holy laughter.