{"id":19738,"date":"2025-11-24T15:40:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=19738"},"modified":"2025-12-29T00:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:15:08","slug":"journal-of-the-week-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=19738","title":{"rendered":"Journal of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>11\/28\/2025 Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jim Cassidy's take on the Book of Job<\/strong> is so bad. Basically <strong>he's saying that Job blamed God for his suffering<\/strong>. I don't know how these people read Job, because Job (and his friends) clearly was aware of the blameless God, and God-fearingly avoiding that narrative and motive. So <strong>Job's sin is not how he view God but how he view man<\/strong> or God's created man <strong>and the lack of I-Thou relationship<\/strong> with God which David championed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jim Cassidy and Dan Ragusa | Redemptive-Historical Themes in Job and 2 Peter\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XWRqv3Ad08I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.cassidy.12\/posts\/pfbid0u3pX1dSQhdaxWjg9FAKUEJ1ZbqjtpK8jtbq44nKi3hRCS1nuYaG2c32rFsWYVKr2l?comment_id=1351377956668399&amp;__cft__[0]=AZY1sj3X_X7opIlrS6SnGoQgWEL66nnTXokpnflBjiSyX-wn04PPFVhvbTiGKg5oAqS2uzLlvnVz42uGBQrYKnPKyy8CwRufnr5vEeEZH-J0XtxmtyfFL3WmfLgMQUEMqVA&amp;__tn__=R]-R\">this rhetorical comment<\/a> on his Facebook when he said that Job thought God was not infinitely wise than he was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11\/26\/2025 Wednesday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kaitlyn Schiess <\/strong>a Calvinist. Though she's also supposedly an elder in a PCUSA church. So I'm not sure where she really leans, but so far, seems closer to conservative. She's smarter than Allie Beth Stuckey nonetheless:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"697: Cancelling \u201cJudeo-Christian,\u201d Defending Slavery, &amp; Rethinking Gaza with J. Ross Wagner\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rz27QxB6Zqw?start=2492&feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11\/24\/2025 Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of Allie Beth Stuckey's podcast:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Stephanie Gray Connors<\/strong> recommended by Trent Horn to be the best Pro-life debater. Not really in my interest but good to keep in mind of who this is.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OdL-7oeDIzE?si=oPRF9V904mT3yfu8&amp;t=2987\">On Death Penalty<\/a><\/strong>: Trent Horn, as a Catholic, obviously do not support capital punishment, now, because there's this thing called prison. \"People are not hanged for stealing horses, they are hanged so horses won't be stolen.\" John MacArthur answered this using what Jesus said \"those who live by the sword will die by the sword.\" She said Genesis 9:6, which would be similar beforehand. Perhaps Allie chickened out on this (not the same treatment she would others such as Tim Keller) here and let Horn<strong> teach her that you must have purpose to have capital punishment rather than just principle<\/strong>. Or it could also be that Trent did not see Allie's point from the Bible, as they probably are both very bad at general revelation. Not able to weigh in what the other is saying against his\/her own view, but just full of themselves. One says God's command needs to be explained; the other says God's command needs to be obeyed, so they are talking across each other, so to speak.<br><br>The <strong>prison argument fails<\/strong> if you find imperfection in the prison system, which is plentiful (i.e. risks of another crime, prison cost, etc.) and biblical death penalty is<strong> never about future prevention, but testifying the gravity of the crime<\/strong> against the sanctity of human life.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Catholic Apologist to Anti-Trump Bishops: Where Were You? | Trent Horn @TheCounselofTrent | Ep 1271\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OdL-7oeDIzE?start=1431&feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writetobrain.com\/olfactory?utm_source=tldrnewsletter\">Using ultrasound<\/a> to induce smell. <strong>Using sound to mimic smell<\/strong>? What's next, taste?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11\/23\/2025 Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This day marks our <strong>official departure from Grace Community Church<\/strong>, due to the sermons. Nadia felt that she wasn't being fed by Pastor Chris, and in order to have her not getting frustrated and looking down on the preacher, we decided to <strong>attend Crossroads Community Church<\/strong> which is about 10 mins away from GCC. I myself don't mind Pastor Chris' preaching (I'm used to it and know how to deal with it - <strong>it actually helps me learn how to deal with bad preaching, finding ways to attack bad messages, examining where there are biblical fails<\/strong>, etc.) though I could agree with most of Nadia's criticism of the sermons. They were typical of many OPC, PCA, reformed preachers of America, very boring, using sophisticated and many words for shallow context, and as some have already said though in well meaning but I'll treat this as a negative remark: <strong>preaching like a lecturer\/professor, no life in their sermons and take on Scripture<\/strong>. When I told pastor Chris about our departure the day before, I commended him on his leading of the adult Sunday School, which was rare as he opens the floor not just for questions but criticisms as well, at least as far as I know. Not that he's well equipped for all challenges, but it was good enough to seemingly open for it. It's their loss if they do not challenge him because other pastors either lead a Bible discussion because of their job or have no interest in facing challenges. But it is no good for Nadia, so we must leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11\/28\/2025 Friday Jim Cassidy's take on the Book of Job is so bad. 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