10/19/2024 The definition of Priesthood, Dr. Tong contrasted Hebrews 2:14 & 17, to show that the priest is the representation of Man to God as well as God to Man:
Therefore, no wonder the OT priesthood is merely a shadow of the Christ to come, the Perfect Sinless Priest. Because Jesus Himself is God to man as well as Man to God, not just mere representation.
Kanna Curry Houses are apparently very well known for Banana leaves dishes. And Mamak restaurants are supposedly 24 hour, interesting I have to learn these Malaysian restaurants from a non-Malaysian:
10/18/2024 In the world of hidden-opinions, I have to also secretly rejoice when left-wing companies like META (previously Facebook) fired employees for abusing free meal credits for house goods, not sure how left-leaning bias the reporting media, The Guardian, is on this. Reuters, which is more neutral politically, also reported similar case that makes me smile: Amazon AWS CEO recommended those workers who couldn't do 5 day a week in office policy should quit.
Interesting polyglot black man who speaks tons of Asian languages. Real name is Moses McCormick, AKA Laoshu. He has also passed away in 2021 due to heart issue. I came across him via the Learn Chinese Now youtuber's ranking of famous youtube westerners who speak Chinese, by Ben Hedges & Jared Madsen. I think they misplaced June Mu, because they didn't hear enough, but had they seen his face, which I recognized immediately as half Chinese (he said his mother's Chinese), they may have judged it differently.
These are the ones they ranked in "god tier":
- LeLe Farley (rated as Taiwanese Mandarin)
- Julian
- Laoma Chris
In the Morning, talked to my mother for a second time about my father's stroke better condition, saved in media drive. After much of Nadia's urging, I tried to get my mother to speak to the doctor despite doctors are well known for being too busy to speak to patients' families. This is Pantai Hospital, allegedly best known for handling stroke, despite Nadia's information about Island Hospital being the best, which is where lots of Indonesians love to go to, apparently, even my father's doctor said so.
10/14/2024 Get to brush up on my PHP skill with these new SalesForce requirements for the job. Some cool and easy Excel formula such as =SUMPRODUCT (for counting matches between two columns). The best skill is learning how to manipulate Word and Excel files (docx & xlsx) and the likes, using PHP, all thanks to Github's PHPOffice libraries. Finished the project this morning. It was truly some Eureka moment! I believe this in the long run could actually replace the need for Apsona.
10/13/2024 Ground News. Recommended by Youtuber Doctor Mike to be the best non-bias news media that compares multiple news sources from various perspectives.
On Sunday School, we're still on William Gurnall's work. @25:00 Nadia asked, very cryptically, about sinfulness in irresponsibility. The pastor answered to his best as theologically correctly from the surface of the question. Cl responded about prayers that asked for forgiveness of sins committed unknowingly, the pastor also sharply warned against treating such prayers as absolving our sins, perhaps a Catholic's view. N brought up the argument of paying for products made by tortured slaves in China, a bad example I would say, because I would still buy these stuff with clear conscience regardless, I am not affected by this first world problem: Business transaction is only a relationship between buyer and seller. Not buyers and workers of how that product comes about. Also, if you want to embargo a business because you hard this horrible story about how they treat their workers, what are you going to do when you hear later that that was just a propaganda, you will need to be very inconsistent with your business principle and perhaps even your moral compass. So, that means, first: we to make sure that we are talking about the same thing using the same words because torture doesn't mean child labor. Second: It is haughty foolishness, in fact, to boycott truth or in this case, product of unrighteous mammon, even Jesus does not condemn but praised it in Luke 16. What is ethical would be an immediate just action to halt any unrighteous act. I'm beginning to notice that N, though is smart, often make his speech with some kind of false assumptions/wrong judgments as an unquestionable unspoken basis of his arguments/questions: i.e. there are some who are truly innocent in calamity, it is unethical to buy products made by tortured slaves, there is no point in battling against evil regime because there will always be other wicked ones rising after that, etc. Tom answered more appropriately, saying that we should seek out what are the sins we're not aware of. This, I think many doesn't know, was what happened between Job and God. Job was eager to know his sins, God showed him his sins in the end and he repented.
@31:35 The pastor quoted Rom 7:24 "O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?...", but Eleni and maybe the other, perhaps out of pride, tried to recite the verse as if they want to show off they've memorized it, made it hard to hear what the pastor was saying. This is a lapse in wisdom on their part.
On Sunday Sermon, which was on Revelation 7, @17:48 the allusion to "You can't lose your salvation: if you can lose your salvation you would have done it...it means your sin is greater than God's grace...", from his notes 1.c: Preservation and Perseverance, was perhaps due to J's argument before as to why she left our church. It was theologically sound, E & R later mentioned to us that they wish J had been there to listen to this sermon and she would have learned it, but I disagreed right away to R. I didn't get much chance to explain my disagreement, it was just too obvious to me that I didn't expect them to not get my point themselves. There's no strong verse in Revelation 7, that can tie to the doctrine of OSAS (Once saved always saved), as correct as it is. I remember C once asked the pastor to make his verse references clear in his expository sermons, but I guess it's still not done so. The closest verse I could match it was verse 14, which can be seen as the imputation of Christ's own righteousness upon all His elect. But the pastor did added a verse in the bulletin to his sermon, which was John 6:37-40, but I would say he would need to do more work on tying this in with Revelation 7, otherwise, this would only push people like J away even further for being seen by them as a one directional manipulation tactic using the pulpit against those who have disagreement. In that sense, since it's of Christ's, one cannot lose it by one's own volition as an elect. But this would be a stretch. OSAS is best done through other verses.