{"id":13022,"date":"2022-10-21T17:41:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T21:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=13022"},"modified":"2022-10-26T16:49:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T20:49:29","slug":"thoughts-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=13022","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>10\/22\/2022 - Hike with church, Dinner at Eleni's.<\/strong><br>After the hike, which I already detailed in another entry, Nadia and I went to Rudolfo's, a second time, for dinner. There were 7 of us. I think it's also mainly to welcome the new (sort of) couple. I really tried not to be the center of attention by talking too much but in the end, when asked about music (or the church making the music) being reformed or not, I had to, what's accumulated inside over time, talk about reformed distinction from the fundamentalists, day-age creation, creatureliness of Christ's human nature\/Apollinarianism, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.webtruth.org\/the-person-of-christ\/christ-of-the-substance-of-mary-a-history-of-the-defence-of-the-doctrine\/\" target=\"_blank\">being substance of Mary<\/a> (a good thorough look at this historically in the link which I posted also in the comment in case the link breaks, not to mention WCF 8.2, WLC 37), church membership, no work on Sabbath, etc. All of which I will make separate entries. Interesting enough, the next day, in Sunday School, pastor Chris mentioned that he'll be doing Creation as a topic next year after our current WCF discussions. I call it discussions because that seems to be the way he's doing it. Similar to the Bible study on Thursday, opening the floor to everyone to chime in, instead of a well prepared teaching on the subjects. To be fair, it's great, and very few pastors in US does all 3 - Preach sermon, lead Bible study, teach Sunday school. Though, I do wonder if this creation study idea next year is from Phil, as he and I had serious debate on it once. He wasn't as receptive as Eleni, as he was stuck at the 24 hour day is in the Hebrew grammar and would not back down on that; while Eleni though tried to define Hebrew day as 24 hour, she took the effort to listen to my argument on how this is just a human convention. Should there need to be a sound bite response to this in say the Sunday School when the subject is brought up officially, I shall respond wisely, basically, asking these two questions: <strong>1. Were Bavinck, Kuyper, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Machen<\/span>, Augustine, etc. straying from Biblical interpretation in their non-24-hour day view?<\/strong> <strong>2. Will you make this a test of orthodoxy for things such as qualifying position as an elder, etc.?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dealing with lower IQs, it's best to not talk too much with them<\/strong>. However, unlike others who ignore out of fear or escape, I shall do them one favor by giving them a hint, a sound bite answer so to speak, that by itself perpetually responds to all their statements and questions that they speak in foolishness until they realize of their folly. This way, I am being fair and generous enough. Of course, this does not mean we ignore what they say. Sometimes, parents care, despite the disagreement, they may have some points. If it's from parents, it is well to honor them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/22\/2022 - Hike with church, Dinner at Eleni's.After the hike, which I already detailed in another entry, Nadia and I went to Rudolfo's, a second time, for dinner. There were 7 of us. I think it's also mainly to welcome &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=13022\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13022"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13056,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions\/13056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}