Those who like to use this principle of church planting, church growth are the ones who are bad at math. The one who started this must be crackpot at math but insisting on being a mathematician, hence used his pretend mathematical skill in a non-relevant area.
If Noah had used this principle, he would have given up preaching a long long long time ago.
Therefore, this principle is ridiculously unbiblical.
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There was once a time where there was world peace. God ended it, because it was without glory to God.
So don't use your own humanity, your own judgement to argue with God. God's plan has never changed from the beginning. God is God.
The Babelians were perhaps the last sign of the old world and evidence of the greatest mercy of God in ancient time before Christ.
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Like the Pentacostal movement, 远志明 creatively concluded the word "船"
in his topic <<神州>>, as Noah's "一舟八口", and in
<<老子与圣经>> 老子 is God's prophet, is rather ridiculous. I
would say he's read many chinese literatures, but his lack of
understanding is the result of what Peter would say in 2nd Peter 3:16
"...信中有些难明白的，那无学问、不坚固的人强解，如强解别的经书一样，就自取沉沦。"
As a result, one can see Mr. Yuan's theological understanding is
a mess. I can assure you he will not be able to find the relationship
between a just and righteous God and a merciful God. To him, if God is
as fierceful today as before, that would be mean.
Secondly, Lao
Zhi cannot be prophet of God because there's no mention of God in
DaoDeJin. Mr. Yuan cannot see the difference between common revelation
(things revealed to all) and special revelation (only to God's chosen
ones).
As for the word and other words mentioned by Mr. Yuan in
relationship to Biblical accounts, I would have to first ask of the
source of his discovery, and not just basing this on his own
imagination or if he ever claimed God spoke to him. If by creativity, I
could link more chinese words to Biblical accounts than he did in
<<神州>>. But if they are not true, I would shame God. And
since God is perfect, I would be in trouble. True, there are words that
could link to Biblical accounts, but you do it with wisdom, not with
your creative stupidity. For example the word "样", "不像样", is
philosophically biblical.
Obviously, as long as one's
creativity can link anything to God regardless of the truth, Mr. Yuan
would like to be in the picture. Like the Charismatic believers. They
do not realize that by abandoning the truth, lack of careful studying
the facts, they have already abandoned God. We must pray for them.
Christ said in Matthew 7:21-23, "not everyone calling me Lord shall
enter into the Kingdom of Heaven", these including those who've done
works in Jesus' name, and He will say to them, "I never knew you,
depart from me". Evil doesn't just mean hating God, it could cover
those who think they love God as well.
So we must always fear God, and not be trapped by our pride.
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01:00pm:
My explanation of E=MC^2
When something is moving at a speed of light, it is energy. So, light in a way, is energy. When you listen to the radio, it is picking up radio waves from the radio broadcasting station. Radio waves are also energy. They all travel at the speed of light, approximately 300,000 km/s.
So, an object, a physical object, or in physics, we call it 'matter', can be converted into energy if it's travelling at light speed. When something is moving, at any speed, it is exserting energy already, we call it "Kinetic Energy". The formula for kinetic energy is 1/2 times Mass times square of Velocity (its speed).
So it's:
1/2 M V^2
So when the object is travelling at light speed...it's:
1/2 M C^2
But when the object/matter is travelling at light speed, it's not matter anymore, it's like radio waves, energy.
So, since it's still an object, we would have to calculate it's energy in a still state. So we double its kinetic energy. Why? because new kinetic energy is used to cancel out the first kinetic energy, for example: If I push a car forward with my superhuman power, the car would move forward; and at the same time, Vanessa also pushes the car backward from the front end of the car against me with the exact same superhuman power, the car would not move at all because we both pushing the car with the same strength from opposite direction. So the total strength required for the car to be still would be the my strength plus Vanessa's strength.
So the double of the kinetic energy of a matter moving at light speed just happens to be:
1/2 M C^2 + 1/2 M C^2 = M C^2
Thus, it is explained.
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07:33pm:
The main problem with American church today is sermon. The sermons have become irresponsible lectures. Having no relationship with the audience or ignorant of the audience.
Sermon is the most important part in servitude of the Lord. Many have failed here. Hence, the church is scattered, some brought in ingredients of other religions, philosophy and rationalization of man.
It is unfortunate that some think the Bible, the Word of God, is merely a philosophical book. Hence, this brings the question of their faith. Why are they Christians? Or rather, why do they CLAIM to be christians?
Most would reply it is because they like Christianity, they like having the fellowship. The smarter ones would add because Jesus saved them but not knowing what that really means except that it was the answer given by many pastors who have mostly aquired such answers from their academical pursue. So in conclusion, they like it, they feel a connection to it, hence they CHOOSE to become a Christian. To clarify, I use this analogy. When a person is born to this family, he is loyal and faithful to this family, one would easily argue that if he were to be born to the other family, he would have been loyal and faithful to that family. Because he was born there, he was given food and care, he grew up there.
Nonetheless, in Truth, Christianity is the only path not because one likes it. It is the only path because that is the truth.
Is this important to know? Of course it is. One may think he's a christian, but he might not be. One might not be a christian now, but at the last second, the grace of God could be so effective on him on his deathbed that he repented just before his death when no one was around. The Jews thought they were all CHOSEN, but in Romans 9-11, we know the term CHOSEN is only used by God, not by any natural law or regulation.
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September 9 2006
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11:52pm:
I realized that I have been constantly passing over my subway stations, getting on wrong subway trains, etc. This must be stopped.
So, how can this be? Given that there are also many times that the MTA management is a mess itself, hence this is not something I could avoid easily.
Nonetheless, some of such instances are caused by my own carelessness. Apparently, I have been taking certain things rather for granted. How can this be? Am I with this personality?
It would seem that there are more to care about than I would like to believe. Therefore, it is wise to always keep check of things, even the least minor things, to clarity. Always. Details. Clarity. Nevertheless, keeping the Simplicity.[@more@]
1 Samuel 9:3, 16
And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses...
Tomorrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin...
From men's point of view, Saul was sent by his father.
From God's point of view, all was in God's control.
Now about freedom, God does give us freedom. Saul has the choice to go or not to go. However, when that happens, we will only meet our own destruction. Some may argue our freedom can sometimes be of good intention, good results, if good results, it's because of the God, because of His mercy, that we can do good, not our freedom. And when one learned this and felt restricted and therefore denying this from his ego, he's then using his own freedom against God.
For only the Truth shall set us free, and Christ is the Truth. Our freedom is death, freedom in Christ is what we didn't have and need.
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The truth shall set you free. For we were once enslaved to sin.
So, when we're christians, if one has doubt of what he/she's doing is right before God even to the slightest degree, he/she could ask him/herself that if this practice is taken out of his/her life:
FIRSTLY, can he/she do it? Not just verbally, but in action.
Secondly, is removing such habit diminishing glorifying God? (Or to put it plainly, is removing such habit a bad thing before God)
If the answer to the first condition is yes, and no to the second, then why not abolish such habit.
If the answer to the first condition is no, and no to the second, then one is still enslaved by sin. He/She merely understood what it means to repent, to be saved by Christ, but not truly experiencing it by faith.
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In the old days, efforts and talents were not rewarded by men, hardship was inevitable, greatness was passed on to the future.
Later, greatness was realized, hardship was inspired, efforts were rewarded by men.
Then, greatness is copied, reward is legalized, efforts are means to survive jealousy.
In Truth, in the humble example of Christ Jesus, transforming us into the living sacrifice, would we be able to find the eternal favor in God's eyes.
It is therefore not by man's glory, nor is it for man's glory. But of God's.
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