So...
I'm going to be home alone for the next 3 weeks (as of today).
Possibly my favorite band (hit the lights) just came out with a new ep (extended play) and it sounds absolutely incredible. You need to check out songs such as "Coast to Coast," and "Pulse," they're way awesome.
Another one of my favorite bands (all time low) is releasing their new cd July 7th, and I am more excited than I was during the slo motion Megan Fox scene during the second transformers flick...
P.S. If you are a girl that is reading this, do not insinuate the whoreishness of Megan Fox just because she is a very pretty girl who just so happens to be pretty enought to have her own slo motion segment in a bigtime blockbuster movie. God made you the way you are, and the fact that thousands upon thousands of young men across the country behaved and will behave chauvinisticly when Megan Fox is displayed in a rather superficial manner up on the big screen does not change the fact God made you the way you are and simply wants you to take care of yourself and be happy with the fact that you don't look like everyone else. Wow, I didn't realize that spiel would be as long as it was... anyways... new all time low album... I am thoroughly excited for it.
I should be adopting this kitten I've been rambling about this weekend hopefully... which will likely exhaust my already miniscule aptitudes for responsibility seeing as my parents will be away and I will have to look after the kitten all by my lonesome.
Now for the slightly more weighty segment of this blog entry...
I know I've already made reference to the new transformers flick (which I highly reccomend), but a film that I found to be much more moving, and just as enjoyable, was a picture known only as "The Soloist." "The Soloist," (supposedly based on a true story) is a tale about a journalist, plagued by writers block, who meets a sensational violinist/cellist (cellist being a term used to describe one who excels at playing the cello) who is antogonized by a combination far worse than mere writers block. Jamie Fox plays a poverty stricken, schizophrenic who wanders the streets of Los Angeles playing his violin that furnishes only two strings. The struggling journalist and the perfectly content spirit of a thoroughly tortured soul, meet by chance near a statue just outside of the L.A. Times headquarters where adventure and inspiration ensue. Needless to say I not only recommend this movie but I insist that you see it!
Finally, I just wanted to mention, in case anyone out there wants to interact with my entries, that it takes little time to setup an acount with google.com. Once you have an account you can create your own blog, or perhaps just comment on mine. I suppose that is all for today... toodles!
Friday, June 26, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
June 22nd
Kitty update! Wow that sounded extroardinarily gay, which is interesting because I'm going to state my own thoughts regarding "gay Christians" in this post.
I went over to pick up the kitten that I described in the first post to no avail. The current owner wants to hold on to it for about another week, which is understandable (is understandable a word?!) because it is not even 3 weeks old and it is quite important that it be with its siblings for a short while after birth. Can't wait though!!
So here goes as to my theories on the "certain damnation of gays!!!!" Only kidding obviously...
First let it be known that I am a Christian and I believe that scripture is innerrant, thus I deem it necessary to include Romans chapter 1 into these shananigans.
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
After honing my own exegesis of previous passage, I would contend that homosexuals (WHO DO NOT MERELY STRUGGLE WITH HOMOSEXUALITY, BUT RATHER MAINTAIN A HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLE IN A SCRUPULOUS AND COMFORTABLE MANNER), in all likelyhood, do go to hell. WAIT! LET ME EXPLAIN! I do not say this because their sin is unforgiveable! I say this mainly because the previous passage seems to identify homosexuals with those described in verse 31; verse 31 providing the description of FAITHLESS. Now, I am hoping for feedback on this post, so please, tell me how one can be faithless, as described by scripture,(perhaps faithless that God can help them overcome their lusts) and receive salvation at the same time.
Sometimes, when one attempts to combine to passages, or verses of scripture the result is a pound of completely arbitrary and relative conceptions. A good illustration of this is the age old atheistic argument "God cannot be love, and a jealous God at the same time." Scripture says that 1. God is love, 2. God is a jealous God, and 3. Love is not jealous. To the untrained eye, the hypothesis that contends that the combination of these 3 verses disproves God (or at least the Christian God) seems logical, but when the exact contexts of points 2, and 3 are more closely examined one can note that the exact meanings of the word jealous in either passage are quite different. God is jealous of our attention, faith, and comradarie, to say that God is jealous of our traits, or possesions, or abilities, (which is what would be implied if the most common connotation of the word "jealous" was used) is utterly irrational, and actually quite laughable. This said, scripture (Phillipians) indicates that true Christians are in a constant state of perfection, and conformity to Christ. Not only this, but scripture also says that God refuses to furnish any temptation unto man that he is not capable of overcoming.
All this said, I believe that a homosexual can indeed be a Christian, if and only if he or she has affirmed his or her desires as sin, and is seeking Christs help to change.
If you disagree, please say so!
I went over to pick up the kitten that I described in the first post to no avail. The current owner wants to hold on to it for about another week, which is understandable (is understandable a word?!) because it is not even 3 weeks old and it is quite important that it be with its siblings for a short while after birth. Can't wait though!!
So here goes as to my theories on the "certain damnation of gays!!!!" Only kidding obviously...
First let it be known that I am a Christian and I believe that scripture is innerrant, thus I deem it necessary to include Romans chapter 1 into these shananigans.
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
After honing my own exegesis of previous passage, I would contend that homosexuals (WHO DO NOT MERELY STRUGGLE WITH HOMOSEXUALITY, BUT RATHER MAINTAIN A HOMOSEXUAL LIFESTYLE IN A SCRUPULOUS AND COMFORTABLE MANNER), in all likelyhood, do go to hell. WAIT! LET ME EXPLAIN! I do not say this because their sin is unforgiveable! I say this mainly because the previous passage seems to identify homosexuals with those described in verse 31; verse 31 providing the description of FAITHLESS. Now, I am hoping for feedback on this post, so please, tell me how one can be faithless, as described by scripture,(perhaps faithless that God can help them overcome their lusts) and receive salvation at the same time.
Sometimes, when one attempts to combine to passages, or verses of scripture the result is a pound of completely arbitrary and relative conceptions. A good illustration of this is the age old atheistic argument "God cannot be love, and a jealous God at the same time." Scripture says that 1. God is love, 2. God is a jealous God, and 3. Love is not jealous. To the untrained eye, the hypothesis that contends that the combination of these 3 verses disproves God (or at least the Christian God) seems logical, but when the exact contexts of points 2, and 3 are more closely examined one can note that the exact meanings of the word jealous in either passage are quite different. God is jealous of our attention, faith, and comradarie, to say that God is jealous of our traits, or possesions, or abilities, (which is what would be implied if the most common connotation of the word "jealous" was used) is utterly irrational, and actually quite laughable. This said, scripture (Phillipians) indicates that true Christians are in a constant state of perfection, and conformity to Christ. Not only this, but scripture also says that God refuses to furnish any temptation unto man that he is not capable of overcoming.
All this said, I believe that a homosexual can indeed be a Christian, if and only if he or she has affirmed his or her desires as sin, and is seeking Christs help to change.
If you disagree, please say so!
Saturday, June 20, 2009
June 21st
Took long enough... I signed up on-line to begin this blog months ago... well... at least one month ago. Anyways, because this is my first blog post it's just going to be an accumulation of my exceedingly humorous ramblings, nothing to serious. Chances are, this blog will turn out to be a place where I can spew out my own deceits regarding political and religous issues in order to further the decay of our country and the world wide web... ....... joking... but fo' real yo', this blog will serve as a place where I will come to express my thoughts on different politcal and moral issues (you gotta get them out somehow) and also as a place where I can simply share and receive wisdom on matters of less importance as well. So now that I got that crap out of the way, please, enjoy a nice lifeless stupor as you are exceedingly bewildered by my very own"Special Fathers' day/ opening blog thing."
So for fathers' day I got my father a book he really wanted entitled "The Patriots' Bible." It is essentially a study Bible that probably has a bunch of "Olde Time" political jargon regarding how America is a Christian nation, yadi yada. Moreover, the book for overly right wing, somewhat grumpy old guys that I bought my father is of much less importance than another affair at hand in my graceful epoch. I am getting a kitten!! Fo fwee cracka!! HAHAHA! No but seriously... whilst I delivered pizzas tonight I made a delivery to this cat (much pun intended) that had recently discovered a band of baby tigers... okay so they were just kittens... Before I left, a young lady sitting next to the kittens asked if I wanted one... I replied "uhhh... does a bear poop in the woods?!!? OF COURSE I WANT A CUTE AND CUDDLY KITTEN!!" No, but fo realz I was all like... well yea that'd be cool but my mom probably wouldn't go for it... you know... I kind of just said that to get out of there (seeing as I was still working and all). But then I realized when I got to my car that my dad is too preoccupied with writing his book and with the Chicago Cubs unlikely successes (unlikely because they suck butt for the last one hundred years... literally... no not literally about the sucking butt part... ewww... literally about the one hundred years part) and that my mom would probably be okay with one of the kittens due to their exceedingly high quantities of cuteness that I could probably get away with bringing one home.
So, in an attempt to finish this blog up quickly, I'm going to go out and purchase all the things that a kitten would need (you know, litter box, cat food, razor sharp fang implants... what?) and present it gracefully to my mother. That's that.
Methinks my next blog will entail the whole "do gay people go to hell" debate. It's something that is being discussed an awful lot as of late, and I'd love to see what others think of my own synopsis on the issue.
Conforming only to Christ,
Daniel Deckard.
So for fathers' day I got my father a book he really wanted entitled "The Patriots' Bible." It is essentially a study Bible that probably has a bunch of "Olde Time" political jargon regarding how America is a Christian nation, yadi yada. Moreover, the book for overly right wing, somewhat grumpy old guys that I bought my father is of much less importance than another affair at hand in my graceful epoch. I am getting a kitten!! Fo fwee cracka!! HAHAHA! No but seriously... whilst I delivered pizzas tonight I made a delivery to this cat (much pun intended) that had recently discovered a band of baby tigers... okay so they were just kittens... Before I left, a young lady sitting next to the kittens asked if I wanted one... I replied "uhhh... does a bear poop in the woods?!!? OF COURSE I WANT A CUTE AND CUDDLY KITTEN!!" No, but fo realz I was all like... well yea that'd be cool but my mom probably wouldn't go for it... you know... I kind of just said that to get out of there (seeing as I was still working and all). But then I realized when I got to my car that my dad is too preoccupied with writing his book and with the Chicago Cubs unlikely successes (unlikely because they suck butt for the last one hundred years... literally... no not literally about the sucking butt part... ewww... literally about the one hundred years part) and that my mom would probably be okay with one of the kittens due to their exceedingly high quantities of cuteness that I could probably get away with bringing one home.
So, in an attempt to finish this blog up quickly, I'm going to go out and purchase all the things that a kitten would need (you know, litter box, cat food, razor sharp fang implants... what?) and present it gracefully to my mother. That's that.
Methinks my next blog will entail the whole "do gay people go to hell" debate. It's something that is being discussed an awful lot as of late, and I'd love to see what others think of my own synopsis on the issue.
Conforming only to Christ,
Daniel Deckard.
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