Jews for Jesus

It is said that the so called Messianic Jews today are like the legalistic Jewish Christians and non-Christians in Paul's days, whom Paul had a hard time dealing. I've heard of the work-based salvation accusation against them and arguments from their advodates even from the non-Jewish Christians. I do find the fact that their "over"-independence of doctrines rather disturbing. It is as if they do not want to give credit to church history. Perhaps, they still treat it as some wild olive tree only.

I have recently learned that the Jews for Jesus group is a spin-off of the original The Chosen People group. And I've been handed their flyers a few times already in the city and subways.

I notice they have an address, perhaps I should visit someday:

109 E. 31st Street, NY, NY 10016 212-974-8248 ny@jewsforjesus.org

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Mormon's Motive

It is known that they offer English courses for free for Chinese in china towns of New York City.

I am curious as to what they actually do in the English classes...Can I just go and say because I am curious...

As usual some very well Mandarin speaking Caucasian in a group of about 4 wearing the usual LDS white collar and a tie and a name tag handing out this stuff in Chinatown. I was with company, I didn't engage in further discussion. Time Friday evening (7/15/2011)

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Creativity in Accountants

Is it just me or that accountants have no creativity at all? Just work work work, asking for formulas of live. As long as the answer is right, that's good enough for them, no interest in the history of things.

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Summer Resolution

Visit: http://www.queensfarm.org/

Boating

Shakespeare in the Park

Beehives in NYC 1. NYC Bee Keeping & 2.Brooklyn Grange

 

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Big Screen TouchPad

Instead of games, I would like to use it for some research, study related pursue.

 

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Liberal Reasoning Honesty Check

Skeptics' guide #312 jul 5 2011
Bob:
"I love it when 80+ years of conventional wisdom gets defenestrated..."

On naked spiral galaxies instead of elliptical ones.

So it is shown that the motive behind the disagreement can be anything else but the truth.

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Taking two with one, on local theological issue - hermeneutics

Last Sunday, in a sermon, the pastor shared a moment of the East Side Bible fellowship on Friday where the question of "What is the purpose for Jesus to come" asked by the teacher. It was emphasized to a point that only that verse's answer is correct (...I have come to do your will, O God) and that all other answers seemed to be less accurate if not wrong. And it is apparent that the pastor concurred.

I think that since the study of that day is on Hebrews 10:7, it doesn't mean that one should take the verse out of its context. Therefore, it is not right to disqualify an answer if it doesn't pertain to the verse in question unless it is only within that passage that the question refers to. So answers that are also found especially elsewhere in the Bible should be treated as it should: I am Come...to fulfil the law (Matthew 5:17), ...to Preach (Mark 1:38), ...to call sinners to repentance (Luke 5:32), ...to send a sword (Matthew 10:34-35)...etc. [Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commentary of Heb 10:7]

I do fully agree the former answer is a very good one, John 6:38-39, however, I will not disregard the other answers as if they were of lesser value. Because by saying that the answer can only be the will of God, it is a disdain to some's intellect, as if accusing them contradicting the will of God with the other answers.

Thus, with the motive inspected, I would say that the question itself is immature. For if I wanted people to see importance of following the Will of God, I would not ask someone: Why do you eat your food? and expect to tell them they are wrong if they do not answer and only answer "Because it's the Will of God". Though it is important to teach the Will of God, this kind of pedagogy is downright deceptive and narcissistic.

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Avira's Annoying New Ad

Seems that the online protection won't enable unless one agrees to install the webguard add-on in the browser.

I'd still prefer this to AVG since I can simply uninstall the add-on from my Firefox.

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Geovision: Remote ViewLog Unable to connect to Server

This is probably the second time I faced this problem at NYGC.

When Geovision's Remote Viewlog is opened, it cannot connect on certain computer, saying Unable to Connect to Server. Please verify the IP address and port number.

Solution:

There was nothing wrong with the firewall or router or network. It is due to the incompatible versions of the Viewlog installed. Sometimes even after update, the old version is not removed or that the DMMultiview will still connect to the old version.

Thus, new version can easily be accessed via START->All Programs->Remote ViewLog. Or by editing the registry->HK_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->GEOVISION->...change all path from v800 (old) to the new C:\Program Files\Geovision\Remote Viewlog

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The Sin of Traditional Churches Today

One of the greatest sins of reformed or orthodox (not the Greek) churches today, is to use the truly piety-seeking ones, especially the less famous ones, to cover themselves so that they can make friends with the great reformers while having their secret faults blamed on their pious clothing.

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