TNT

Yeah yeah yeah, I haven't posted in ages, and the last post I said I would, and it said it'd be about genesis... but sheesh! I've been busy.
But now that the busy cloud of Christmas, exams, friends, essays, deadlines, applications and interviews is beginning to lift - I thought I'd post something i’ve actually been asked to blog about... Why I (a logical, moderately sane individual) trust The New Testament. Oh come now, you didn't really think it'd be about TNT, did you?

Ok, are you sitting comfortably?
Then I'll begin.

Well, we know that a Jewish guy called Jesus ( ישו ) was born 2011 (ish) years ago, and most historians agree that he was regarded as a teacher and healer, and that his teachings were believed by almost everyone that heard them. Word then spread about this preacher who could perform miracles, and who spoke of a different way of thinking about God, Sin, and the scriptures. This worried the religious leaders of the time, and due to his ever growing influence and denouncement of the pharisees, they demanded he be crucified. Jesus was then crucified in Jerusalem on the orders of the Roman Prefect of Judaea, Pontius Pilate, on the (unjust) charge of ‘sedition against the Roman Empire’. 

That, peoples, is all fact. (go check if you wish)

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?

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!