Anti-Anti's Modern Prosperendum

The World has sometimes thought of the approaches of certain Christians as bullying.  Many churches these days seem to believe it. I think they really believe that the actual gospel is mean. We've been told in God's Word that the World will think it's foolish. The World doesn't understand, and we can't make them understand. Understand? Tell them the gospel, once. That way, if they hear God's voice one day, they'll know what to do. That's the important thing, yet most Christians don't know why they're saved, biblically; it's been obscured, even though it's found in 2 distinct passages, and then the rest of the Bible fits around it, but it's been terribly obscured. Debates and fears and ignorance and confusion go against biblical teaching, too. So, why stay that way about the most important thing in the Universe?! It's understandable that those who know this truth would want to shout it to the World - that's just another evidenc...

Hello, God's Earth shines, and little minds should too. I recently asked ChatGPT why the teaching methods of the past couldn't be brought back, and it gave its usual thorough set of answers. It got me thinking about teachers' associations. My search led me to you. I wonder if organizations like this one do enough for these types of struggles. My search online listed many articles about the Anderson Federation of Teachers; all of them were about money! It's important, but not the most important thing. ChatGPT informed me (so I informed myself, right? ...because I own its output, as though I rigorously researched anything. I wonder if it gave me wrong information? ...too busy to find out, which is why it's so helpful. Isn't it?) <ahem> ChatGPT informed me that the focus on regimented testing, lack of materials, and policymakers' disconnection from the deeper problems of learning all contribute to the problem of teaching children how to think. It's sa...

A man saw me walking to a McDonald's breakfast this morning, and he asked me to buy him a sandwich. So, I waved him over, asked him his name, and what he wanted, and we proceeded forth. When I asked him what he thought of Christ, he told me that he believes all the religions have something worthwhile, and he mentioned Jesus as part of the mix. I was very mellow in this. I wasn't pushy. I want you to understand that, firmly. Imagine it. We were standing in line; not for long, either. There was a little silence after the meal was ordered, and I continued the conversation.We got the food, and he walked out with me; I had some of his stuff in my bag, so we waited a moment and shuffled some things around, and then we walked on. He waited on me; he wanted me to follow him. I told him to follow Christ. I told him what he must believe and do to be saved, which I emailed you about recently. He did not. He wanted me to go with him. I would not. Friendship with the world is enmity with Go...

"..how high-control churches can be harmful and abusive, often resulting in trauma. She shows how elements of fundamentalist church life–such as fear of hell, purity culture, corporal punishment, and authoritarian leaders–can cause psychological, relational, physical, and spiritual damage." - From the blurb of "When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion" by Laura E. Anderson This concept is now stated. It can be talked about with some structure and careful thinking. How can we tell if the main accusation holds true? First, we have to divide between Church and World, saved and unsaved, because these two groups, separated through holiness by the fact of Christ's great saving work, have fundamentally different perceptions, behaviors, and reactions, and so the accumulation of trauma is different between them. Christians love these concepts. We know that discipline doesn't seem nice at the time that we're di...

Luke 9:49 - And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us. Luke 9:50 - And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us. Someone might be tempted to interpret this as saying other religions shouldn't be forbidden, because whoever isn't against us is with us, because they used Jesus' name even though they didn't walk in their same religion with them. That interpretation would have its trouble hinge on the concept of "walking with us" as though it meant being the same religion, but the interpretation changes fewer connecting concepts (and so it's more plausible) by being more literal - they weren't part of the 12 Disciples or their immediate group of friends, but they were - evidently - saved by God through Jesus just like the 12 Disciples and their friends. We have to be careful to have straightforward understanding in studying God's ...

When we deny that we glorify ourselves, we lose touch with the precise picture of what it means to glorify God! We separate it into an undefined blob in the backs of our minds, which we often don't even want to try defining when it comes up in conversation, while we go about our days glorifying humanity in ways that we define by different concepts. Are they reductionistic, because there's no room beyond mere description to adequately define those things? Are their deeper meanings impossible to evaluate? Maybe some are even when they wouldn't be if we were willing to tell the truth about them! "This meeting is to recognize Anne Johnson and Ted Frell for their tremendous service to the city! Why, they've up 'n'give us all jealousy pains just lookin' at how much they've accomplished!". "Why are you glorifying them?", you ask. "What?! I'm confused. You mean like God!? Son, we ain't glori-whatnot-en 'em. We're just cla...

Freedom isn't what it seems. The Statue of Liberty is a pagan symbol that coincides with the Enlightenment and with being Woke. Real freedom is a desirable concept which these other things have glommed onto as their wolfish cover. Being free from God by way of human endeavor is a filthy thing that only has a single route of success in utter death, and what freedom is there in death?! Freedom from sin is true freedom, and its only route of success is to be enslaved to Master Jesus, because He both stopped sin and its deadly ways and also gave life, which is the essence of all free action. Consider this: if - I said 'IF' - you actually did accept servanthood to God, then you would be given a point of view by Him that you could accept, and His light and delightful burden would not seem to be a thing to rail against like rage overtakes those desperate to hold onto their freedom by any means. From your viewpoint of acceptation, you stop blocking all the possibilities to walk rig...