Genesis: Day 1

Yo, 

I feel like a challenge. So over the next few posts I will attempt to answer a question that has plagued religious believers and scientists alike, for centuries...
Does Christianity contradict Science?

Righty-O, ma homies, lets begin with Genesis! It’s possibly the most controversial... but a good starting point in my opinion;

Day 1

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

Consumerism... *sigh*

Recently, I was reading a blog you may be familiar with, when I came across this:


"To inadvertently (possibly unwillingly) paraphrase Fight Club (1999), people really dowork hard at jobs they don’t like, to buy stuff they don’t need. The human species has a disturbing, innate craving for stuff. We can’t have enough of it! We just build vast, neverending collections of stuff, each and every person with a varied inventory."


Don't get me wrong; I love Fight Club, and people obsessed with pointless wants is very wrong... 
But I'm still unconvinced that most of the Human race is subject to it. As for me, sitting here, I have a lot of things I don't 'need' to survive:
My hoody is new, but is only the second coat thing I bought this year.
My camera is by no means the best, but it is good! And brings much happiness to my life at the moment.
And this computer is an efficient method for me to communicate with friends, be creative and imaginative, and pass my A levels... It also functions as an anti-insanity device which is always handy (something Tyler Durden obviously didn't class as necessary)

Spouldy?

I've just had a thought, some of it is Roger Forster's, but none the less! A thought I did have...

If you grab a random person, even a random christian, and ask: "Hey! Does the Bible say our souls are eternal?" Most people assume that it does... but it doesn't! It says the exact opposite!

"...the soul who sins is the one who will die"  Ezekiel 18:4

Some may now ask: "If the soul dies how can we live forever in heaven?" Well, it was actually a Greek philosophy that humans are made up of only 2 bits; the body and the soul. This theory gradually seeped its way into christianity as the early church evangelized to the gentiles. Using their existing ideas as analogies kinda got things a bit mingled! 

The Bible actually says there is the Body, the Soul, and the Spirit. God breathed spirit into the body he had formed from the dust of the earth... When spirit met body, man became a living soul. It's a pneumatic + psychological + sematic structure. The body is how you perceive and observe the world, your soul is thoughts and emotions, and the spirit is the sort of, inner knowledge of right and wrong, and your connection to God.

Well, this post has no real conclusion, it's just a big tin of thought-food. So I'll wrap it up with a request. Can you think about it and maybe decide what you believe?

Liam Wade

First Draft of Chapter 1

The Guy with one leg

The guy with one leg flicked open his eyes and gasped, greedily sucking in lungfulls of the dusty, stale air around him. He was in pain, rather a lot of pain by his standards, and he couldn’t remember why. With a look of strained confusion, he propped himself up, slouching against the wall and let out a long, staggered sigh. Why him? The question stung his brain, and his leg even more. He sighed again, blinked three times and surveyed his ex-office.

The room itself was quite small, completely trashed and too grey for its own good. The wallpaper had faded to grey, the grey carpet was covered in grey dust, and sheets of paper that belonged in the ‘out’ basket were scattered everywhere. However, it was once an extremely tidy room. The kind of fresh, neat, room where a chronically OCD person would feel right at home. Not, anymore.
   The guy with one leg shuddered, he most certainly did not feel right at home, he had always detested mess, and kept his office spick and span… especially the ‘out’ box. He coughed the dust from his throat and craned his neck forwards to investigate the dull pain in his knee. Sprawled in front of him were his two feet, side by side. He stared at them, and slowly but surely an odd sensation washed over him, the occult sense that something about his feet, was very, very wrong... No! It couldn’t be!

Songs, Sainsburys and Stones

 Hello, my name is Joel! and I was out walking my dog today with this very repetitive, very good song stuck in my head;

God in my laughing 
There in my weeping 

God in my hurting 

God in my healing 

Christ in me 

Christ in me 

Christ in me the hope of glory 

You are everything 

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Spontaneity

Well, this is my first blog post - and I guess it should begin with: Hello, my name is Joel. But that can wait till later... Right now I am going to talk about spontaneous decisions.

This summer, like many summers before, I am packing my bags to go off to Scripture Union camps, these are christian run holidays that last about a week, where there is as much karting, BBQing, discussing, rock climbing, music-ing, and general crazy-ing as possible...

But in all these years, the thought that there would come a time when I was too old didn't really compute - until a few days ago when an old leader sent me a message saying; "Hey Joel, we need some helpers for this SU holiday, you interested?"

I said yes, and in a few weeks I'll be off to a week of no sleep.

Favorite christian song right now :)

I'll stand, with arms high and heart abandoned.

In awe, of the one who gave it all,
And I'll stand, my soul Lord to you surrendered

all I am is yours!