Old Posts (4) - Perspective

I heard a great comment by my pastor at church today that stuck in my head. He made the point that worshiping God doesn't necessarily cause our issues in this life to go away, but it gives us a perspective on life that causes us to have peace. Life becomes difficult and stressful for at least two reasons: both from sin I commit, and because the fact that I live in a fallen world.


Living in America, its incredibly easy to get caught up in the American way of life. We don't realize how far we veer off course. I remember as a kid going to the ocean and getting dragged hundreds of yards by the ocean's current. The current didn't feel incredibly strong when I was in the water, but when I looked for my beach chair, I realized how great its effect on me was. In life, the world's effect on us is like the ocean's current. It slowly pulls us away from God, and we don't realize how far we've drifted until we look back to God. We slowly drift into a love of work, money, and keeping up an image to others. As we focus on these worldly task, we lose the peace of worshipping God. Life becomes more stressful, because it makes less sense. As we turn back to worshipping God, we realize the eternal significance of worshipping God versus the eternal significance of having a gobs of money. Fortune and fame will fade away forever, but worshipping God is eternal.

Old Posts (3) - Religious flavors

When someone tells you they don't care what religion you believe in, than they're saying your religion is false. People treat religion like flavors of ice cream, you prefer vanilla, I prefer chocolate, we each have one that we like better. So whats the difference between preference in ice cream and preference in religion? Ice cream goes through the digestive system and in 24 hours its gone from your body, however the religion most people believe in claims to effect you eternally. People don't mind what flavor of ice cream you prefer, because they want you to be happy now, and know that it won't have any afterlife effects on you. Thus, people who say that it doesn't matter what religion you believe, its personal taste, are saying that your religious beliefs make you happy now but they wont effect you eternally.

Old Posts (2) - Gay Penguins

I've noticed a lot of news articles popping up about gay animals habitating in zoos. Whats the point of observing these gay animals? I'm confident this is an argument against those who say that being gay is a desire humans can control, not a natural, genetic trait. The argument goes if animals are gay then it must be truly natural, therefore gay people are naturally gay, not by choice. One thing I would like to observe from this is not whether being gay is genetic, but rather the fact that people in general realize that animals are different from humans. They realize gay animals provide more proof for genetical gayness than gay humans do. This is huge. Its clear that people, in general, realize there is a clear distinction between the way humans and animals think. So how does a naturalist explain this distinction? How do they explain that the brain is aware that the brain thinks? Honestly I don't know. Animals think, have feelings, and make decisions, but I don't believe that they realize they think. Whereas humans clearly think that they think. I believe this self-awareness can only come from God, and is uniquely given to humans since we are created in the image of God.

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Stars are so big and so far away, and I lose sight so often that God created them for us to worship him and his greatness. Paul says we should look at creation and know there is a creator. The world of atheistic science has really affected my own love and praise for God. It causes me to forget sometimes that God is the infinitely creative creator. I lose sight that God is in control of everything. Science is true, because God established its laws. I'm analytical, cynical, and skeptical. I don't want to blindly accept religion, or soley base it off of subjective experience, because then whats the difference between myself and everybody else. But there must be a healthy balance between relentlessly and without doubt, praising God for what he has created, what he is doing, and what he will do, and remaining a student of looking at the objective truth of the God. I pray that when I look at creation, I will better see the amazing creativity of God, and worship God for his creativity, and by creative actions.