Frozen: Disney in a Post-Christian World

Remembrance

I live and wander in the cracks of your hand; the sun sets on your fingers and rises on your wrist.
My faucet taps your veins; water springs from your capillaries.
Yet I cannot see your face. Familiarity has bred contentation; but not with you.

Greatly do you stoop and pour down your countenance;
Deeply do you plunge and condescend to me.
At once and suddenly I see the plains as your palm and foothills as you fingers.
I thank you for the recollection of the mosaic of truth.

Do We Really Need More Atheism?

Pic of Rembrandt one of the greatest Paointers.
Pic of Michelangelo one of the greatest Sculptors.
Link to Bach one of the greatest musicians.
Link to wiki of Newton one of the greatest scientists.

Pic of the Kamer Rouge one of the greatest atrocites.
Pic of the Holocaust one of the greatest atrocities.
Pic of Stalinic russia one of the greatest atrocities.
Pic of

The worldviews of these people caused them to do what they did--not their religion; but can you really seperate the two?

Three Major Problems with Dispensational Hermeneutics

They wrongly use the idea that the correct interpretation is the interpretation of the original audience.

Don't believe in the Analogy of Faith.

Inconsistently hyper-literal.

The Original Manuscripts of the New Testament

We do not have the original manuscripts of the New Testament. What we have today are  copies of the copies of the copies of the autographs. Why?

Συντετέλεσται δῆτα καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς ἅπαντα, ὁπηνίκα τῶν μὲν προσευκτηρίων τοὺς οἴκους ἐξ ὕψους εἰς ἔδαφος αὐτοῖς θεμελίοις καταρριπτουμένους, τὰς δ᾿ ἐνθέους καὶ ἱερὰς γραφὰς κατὰ μέσας ἀγορὰς πυρὶ παραδιδομένας αὐτοῖς ἐπείδομεν ὀφθαλμοῖς τούς τε τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν ποιμένας αἰσχρῶς ὧδε κἀκεῖσε κρυπταζομένους, τοὺς δὲ ἀσχημόνως ἁλισκομένους καὶ πρὸς τῶν ἐχθρῶν καταπαιζομένους,

All these things were fulfilled in us, when we saw with our own eyes the houses of prayer thrown down to the very foundations, and the Divine and Sacred Scriptures committed to the flames in the midst of the market-places, and the shepherds of the churches basely hidden here and there, and some of them captured ignominiously, and mocked by their enemies. (Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History, Book 8, Chapter 2)

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In other instances stiffer resistance is offered when believers were asked to give up their Christian books. In the account of the martyrdom of Agape, Irene, and Chione, at successive hearings the three women were interrogated by the prefect Dulcitius of Thessalonica, who inquired, ‘Do you have in your possession any writings, parchments, or books (ὑπομνήματα ἢ διφθέραι ἢ βιβλία) of the impious Christians?’ Chione replied, ‘We do not, Sir. Our present emperors have taken these  from us’. On the next day Irene was once again brought before the court, the prefect asked, ‘Who was it that advised you to retain these parchments and writings (τὰς διφθέρας ταύτας καὶ τὰς γραφάς) up to the present time?’ ‘It was almighty God’, Irene replied, ‘who bade us love him unto death. For this reason we did not dare to be traitors, but we chose to be burned alive or suffer anything else that might happen to us rather than betray them’ (προδοῦναι αὐτάς, i.e. the writings).

After sentencing the young woman to be placed naked in the public brothel, the prefect gave orders that the writings (τὰ γραμματεῖα) in the cabinets and chests belonging to her were to be burned publicly. The account concludes by describing how, in March and April of the year 304, the three became martyrs for their faith by being burned at the stake. (The Canon of the New Testament, Bruce M. Metzger, page 108)