A postmodernist proverb

[Nayto]

I often feel angry and frustrated at liberal churchians and atheists, even the not-so-liberal ones. However, I feel like when addressing them I must as well blow out hot air, so useless is it to try and communicate with them. For this reason I felt like writing a semi-poetic proverb to vent my frustrations in some of the idioms of our ancestors:

Three things are virtuous,
The fourth brings joy to the Almighty:
Persistent and stalwart faith,
A repentant and pure heart,
A humble and meek countenance
And the laying down of one's life for his race.

Four things cause one to fall,
The fifth is an abomination to the Ever-Living:
Eyes that poison the body,
A burning flesh,
An insatiable heart,
A mind that sways to and fro
And hatred for the chosen race.

Who can travel the reaches of His mind?
Who can measure His ways?
Except in the keeping of His statutes!
Shall one stumble on a rock by the wayside,
And have seen the foundations of creation?
Does the ground rise and orchestrate its birth?

The minds of those are snares
And their hearts are graves.
The voice of the Sovereign One booms: Come hither!
But their selves overwhelm the sound: Scatter, away!
His fury comes crashing down,
Their hearts are bitter and tongues curse.
Where is your power, is it on a long journey?

The forsaking of His ways are sulfur and brimstone;
He will crush and thresh and destroy and break down.
The keeping of His commands is Living Water;
He will care and console and lift up and gather.
Blessed is he who is the keeper of his kindred,
Praise the Almighty for His grace flows and His promises endure.

As an end note, Solomon himself, the greatest Adamite mind apart from Christ Himself, said that to discover the world of science is grief and vanity because no-one will ever find out the full secrets of God's wonderful creation. From a secular-philosophical (oxymoron?) point of view, the only thing we can even be sure of in science is infinite emergence. Praise God!

[aleajactaest]

Solomon himself, the greatest Adamite mind apart from Christ Himself

Are you sure about Solomon's Adamic greatness?

Are you sure about his alleged authorship of the Ecclesiastes?


Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. --- Bertrand Russell

[Staropramen]

Excellent work brother Nayto!

[Staropramen]

I often feel angry and frustrated at liberal churchians and atheists, even the not-so-liberal ones.

They are a frustrating lot, more so the churchians than the atheists imo. With atheists you're dealing with people that are on the other side of a divide. They often times have a sense of logic and reason and it's a matter of bringing that logic and reason into a communion with faith. With churchians it's a whole other ball game. A very dishonest game whereby they abandon logic and reason and you find yourself chasing them around in circles as they make one fantastical leap after another, insistant on keeping the Truth stubbornly caged within a fragile Cultural Marxist eggshell at all costs. And this if you can even get them to talk to you in the first place.

Here's a recent example. I was explaining that when we face a potential threat God wants us to walk straight into the fire because "he who seeks to lose his life shall find it". If we run away from the fire, or if we redefine our theology to justify walking around the fire as a virtuous act we are being disobedient to Yahweh and we are greatly increasing the likliehood that we will receive the results that we thought we would find had we walked into the fire.

The response that I got was "that's rubbish because some Christians are martyred". You see what I mean? The person conveniently limited the "finding of life" to this world as justification for going the cowards route. As I tried to explain that in most cases of facing the heat God is not calling us to be martyrs I then had to shift gears to chase the person down some other side road before I could fully explain how martyrdom doesn't contradict "he who seeks to lose his life shall find it".