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Couple found out they are siblings?
This is new...perhaps. I thought it would only happen in movies.
Marriage vows cannot be broken. They just have to live as Adam's children did.
Unfortunately, I'm afraid the perverse sex generations will not be satisfied with gay marriage and push for incest marriage.
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Question for Tim Keller
If he twits for questions again, I would ask how I could access his doctoral dissertation as WTS has on digital record (as well as http://www.tren.com a good source for theological dissertations/thesis) only from 1980s onward and I doubt his 1981 paper is not online.
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SuperNanny
Not Super Gran from UK, but the American TV reality show Supernanny whom Rev. Lin once commended on the pulpit.
Wretched podcast (7/25/2014) has a good take on this:
Secular view. In one instance, supernanny asked the child to "Respect your step father because he's always been there for you..." Wrong, what if he's not there some time?
If you dishonor him[your step father], you dishonor God. The Nanny is only an external temporal witness, when she's gone, we need an eternal witness. So only a Christian worldview can fix this rightly.
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Peter Chow 周功和 Political View
Leviticus 25
Sabbath Year & the Year of Jubilee
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Monarch Butterflies
Fascinating these creatures. There are videos online about them.
Every year they migrate from Canada to Michoacan, Mexico. Arriving in around October. Reproducing around February and then return to Canada. While migrating, they go through several generations that the emigrants are not the same immigrants. Amazing how some generations die in mid migratory.
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Coursera: The Camera Never Lies
A good site(FourAndSix.Com) dedicated to counterfeit/fake photos. Hosting a gallery as well as providing technology pertaining to the problem.
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Discerning True Supporters
Some do not discern. Because they think of Matthew 10:42 where Jesus commend those who give a cup of water. But there is a portion omitted: "...because he is my disciple..." or "...you belong to Christ..."
Therefore, one test which cannot be always executed, is to see how they take a good rebuke. If they will not accept the rebuke, it is clear where their motive lies.
Other tests could be formulated based on the above: reaction to preaching, presence/absence of disagreement, etc.
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Tim Keller on Predestination
God does not begin to save us because we repent. We repent because he's begun his saving work in us. ~ Keller
A simple point...whose work is it in conversion, salvation, etc. The only answer is "The Holy Spirit", or else it is heretical.
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Bible Reading of the time (NT): 1 Peter
Chapter 1
A call to the elects.
v. 3-12 Hope and faith confirmed in temporal suffering.
v.2 A good line for pastoral benediction.
v.7 Reason for suffering.
v.8 I think Janet Mefferd is missing this part when she kept implying she couldn't stand this world and can't wait for Christ to come. But in our faith we are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy.
v.8-9 Could be and had been applied in some way to Old Testament saints.
v.10-12 Another point for a christocentric rather than only christotelic interpretation of the OT. "...It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you [Christians]..."
v.13-25 Be Holy - Against Antinomianism.
v.18 Vain futility of life - such is the death of Adam and Eve on the day they ate the fruit.
v.20 Yet another case against the Christotelic-only hermeneutics of OT. "...before the creation of the world..."
v.21 God raised Jesus from the dead.
v.23 Born again. Of imperishable seed.
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