confession

I did not attend Barack O'bama's birthday bash in Marthas Vinyard 

Wasn't me

Regarding the "Olde Testament"

 squashed together the pages of one of my bibles measures 315mm

 the Old Testament alone accounts for 270mm of that width 

the remainder is the New testament plus concordance and a few maps

 85% of this bible, the old Testament was not written for Christians.  

 Was not written for me.

I pay little or no attention to it.  

Jesus-God said in Matthew 5:17 "Think not that I am come to destroy the law. or the prophets.  I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil."

Why should I waste my time with it?, It was fully fulfilled by the finished work of my lord and saviour Jesus the Christ.  Why complicate my life, better to keep-it-simple-stupid.

My Salvation has nothing to do with the words written in the old testament.

How would King Solomon writing poetry about his wife's boobies have any reference to me, or my relationship with my God? What nonsense to suggest that it would. 

 When Jesus my saviour was hanging on that cross, one of the two being crucified along side him, was empathetic and requested to be remembered by Jesus when he entered His kingdom. "Lord remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom" (Luke 23:42)

Jesus's response was not "Do you know your the scriptures" ? 

was not "have you read the Talmud ?, 

was not Have you read the Torah ? 

not at all. Clearly for what was about to be said, knowledge of scriptures was not required.

What Jesus said to him was "Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise"

What you read in this epistle are the opinions of Gerard (Jerry) the woodturner and painter.  

I do not always agree with the opinions of other epistle writers, found mainly in what is known as the New Testament.  

 but I do agree with Paul-the-Pharisee [Acts 23:6], 

{aka Paul-the-Sinner [1 Tim 1:15] }

{aka Paul the self styled apostle [Rom 1:1]}, regarding the work of Christ as completed & finished; 

to return to the old law of the Talmud or Torah, The Old Testament As the Free Presbyterians and other legalist sects do, in their preaching of the 10 old Pre-Christ finished work, Commandments; was to, as much say 'Jesus Died in vain'. (see Galatians Chapter 2)

To the Christians there are Jesus-God given 2 commandments not 10.   

And if we obey only 1, "Love your neighbour"  we have obeyed both.

if we love our neighbour! we don't steal from him, therefore we don't need a commandment saying "thou shalt not steal" . Early cave dwelling pre Christian-era man might have needed to be told not to steal from others, but modern educated Christians don't need that.

some so-called Christians say that its ok to beat children, because it says so in the bible.  

It does.   

Proverbs 13:24 "He that spareth his rod, hateth his son. but he that loveth him, chasteneth him betimes. 

Thing is though, neither Jesus, Jesus's father, nor Jesus's sister the Holy-Spirit said these words, yet so-called christians will blaspheme and call them the "word of God"

These opinions are the words of a sinful man, they are not the words of a sinless God, the man who wrote these words is dead and is dust by now, but our God Liveth.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the power of language #1

#1 because I suspect now that I have my thought process into a new gear, there may be more

#1 "Tell me he's not gay"

"Tell me she's not a Lesbian"

What??

“Tell me he's not gay"

Who?.. you might be thinking or asking

Anybody

Think about it. Think about the power of that simple request to tell me "he's not gay"

historic rhetoric

Are there many cities/towns/villiages/hamlets across the British Isles that are not "historic" by their existence. 

And if not, is the use of the term "historic" to describe one, anything other than *trite*

Tropics style heavy rain yesterday

In the space of 20 minutes to half an hour yesterday evening while I was in big Tesco store in Newtownards, it rained like I experienced in the tropics. 

I just placed by phone on a display counter between the electric kettles priced between £5.50 and £50, and recorded the rain on the roof overhead. 

i wondered, as I listened and waited, what the £50 kettle did, that the £5.50 one didn't.  could not see anything that warranted the £44.50 difference 

there was a difference in quality of finish , but not worth £44 in my opinion.

when I left the store even though my car was on an incline , there was a slight hollow and i was ankle deep in water putting my purchases in the car.

Global warming the say .. sound of the rain

those about us need us to do good work more than God does

 

 

suspended my facebook

 today I suspended my facebook page

earier i was asked by one of my neighbours to be a facebook "friend".  I turned her down because being outspoken and opinionated non-subscribing presbyterian desciple of Christ i did not know her well enough to know whether or not she might be offended by some of my posting opinions. I suggested we just continue to be neighbours instead. 

she said she was disappointed 

but it started me thinking about the broad church audience face book has and perhaps some of my woodturning friends might not share my liberal and humanist humanitarian opinions, they might inadvertently be offended by what they read

 

had been thinking for a long time anyway of quitting facebook so darn-gone-it, just suspended the account.  I did not terminate the account for then I would loose contact with so many friends on facebook messenger 

spending too long on it anyway 

concentrate on blogging and vlogging instead