We played a team tonight that hails from a Mormon Church. I was a little surprised how a church league would allow that, but at the same time it allows us to interact with non-Christians in a public venue.
The game went really well, we were attempting to be really good sports, even better than we normally are. We won the first game by running in a point in the bottom of the last inning. The second we lost by a bigger margin.
I have played these cats before and they are good players, good sports. However when the games are over everyone circles up and we pray. This was rather awkward for me, as the opposing team took the lead to pray. Knowing I am standing in a circle with Temple Mormons they lead our prayer to God? The prayer was almost perfect for what a Christian should pray, acknowledging Christ as savior, addressing God as father, praying in Jesus name, seeking His help in our daily lives, etc. The problem I had with it was simple, it was a lie.
Mormons do not believe in Jesus as Christians do, and they certainly don't believe that he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins and the only way to heaven. I asked one of the players during the game what church they came from, he commented, the LDS church. I asked him soon after if he was Temple, his response, "Of course." You can't be a Temple Mormon and believe what they prayed.
Of all the cults out there, Mormons bother me the most because they lie to you. They redefine all the words we use to suit their religion. The work really hard at looking like Christians talking like Christians, and even calling themselves Christian. Yet if you can press them they will have to admit that they do not believe anything like Christians. It was the most uncomfortable feeling to know that the guy is saying this beautiful prayer addressed to someone that was not God.
I wish it broke my heart more than it grates it. I really need more love for people that are as lost as them. Shame on me.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Attitudes
Tonight I walked onto the field for softball, but it was different than the last couple games. This time nothing was bearing down on my soul making me predisposed to grumpiness. The first game was normal, we had the mercy rule called on us. The second though was awesome. The team held it together, made some really good fielding plays and kept the other team from scoring to much. That coupled with good hitting on our part gave us the 2nd victory of the season.
I am sure thought that even if we had lost I would have had a good mood anyway. It was right before I walked on the field. (I even got a chance to be the warm up pitcher) The question I am facing is how to make the attitude be good before I get there?
My only answer to that conundrum is simple, stay in the Word. I got a chance a couple days ago, and this morning as well to listen through 1 Corinthians. It has been refreshing to hear scripture again, rather than the sermons I normally listen to. I have no doubt that my better mood and outlook on life improved by absorbing the Word of God. (even when class this morning was a real drag)
I am still dealing with the same issues I have been, but somehow today they were a little less daunting. Praise God for his wonderful goodness to me today. Bless his mighty holy name.
I am sure thought that even if we had lost I would have had a good mood anyway. It was right before I walked on the field. (I even got a chance to be the warm up pitcher) The question I am facing is how to make the attitude be good before I get there?
My only answer to that conundrum is simple, stay in the Word. I got a chance a couple days ago, and this morning as well to listen through 1 Corinthians. It has been refreshing to hear scripture again, rather than the sermons I normally listen to. I have no doubt that my better mood and outlook on life improved by absorbing the Word of God. (even when class this morning was a real drag)
I am still dealing with the same issues I have been, but somehow today they were a little less daunting. Praise God for his wonderful goodness to me today. Bless his mighty holy name.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
The reality of divorce for me.
Lonely is normal, expected, endured.
I am surrounded by family but not friends.
In fact I have many "friends" at church, men whose company I enjoy,
but they are not real friends.
Friends I can call when I feel happy, upset, or sad,
these men I see at softball, choir, and church.
Life is good when around them, for I can for a time forget my troubles.
A nice alternative to drinking my pain away.
Single means that when you go home and turn out the lights you are alone.
There is the reason most young people want relationships,
its hard to live alone.
I know this for I was once married, whether or not I should have ever married her is another question, but I did. To my everlasting shame.
She left me for another, cheated and abused my heart.
2 years later I am mostly healed from that scar.
Yet the scar remains as an ugly testimony of my past.
For a time I sought to eventually replace what was missing.
Even after healing it seemed like a good thought.
No longer does this thought tempt me.
Relationships fill the emptiness and loneliness that comes at night,
but the cost is high.
I remember being very disappointed when I learned the reality of sex.
Knowing the sweet things I thought married couples were, was only exterior.
I had more pain and anguish than joy and laughter.
Perhaps the sign of who I was married to.
After all is said and done, I am alone. I know longer hang with friends.
Gone are the days of talking into the night with friends.
I go to the movies alone, cross the country alone, and in general am alone.
I can seek friends but all my age are occupied with wives and kids.
Being divorced is a stigma that robs the soul of joy.
I sought solace in the Scriptures, and peace I received.
First Corinthians I listened to yesterday, and I learned I am ok.
I am not at fault for the scar I bear, and I should not seek a ring.
My Father God takes care of my needs, I live for Him.
I just want these words to always be true.
With my education and background I should be a model Christian,
Yet I keep getting in the way.
I feel filthy and know that without Christ's blood I am toast.
I want desperately to always love and obey, but I fail miserably
Who will free me from this body of Death.
Thus I live one day at a time, scared and healed,
constantly being pruned and cleaned, but never again whole.
I am surrounded by family but not friends.
In fact I have many "friends" at church, men whose company I enjoy,
but they are not real friends.
Friends I can call when I feel happy, upset, or sad,
these men I see at softball, choir, and church.
Life is good when around them, for I can for a time forget my troubles.
A nice alternative to drinking my pain away.
Single means that when you go home and turn out the lights you are alone.
There is the reason most young people want relationships,
its hard to live alone.
I know this for I was once married, whether or not I should have ever married her is another question, but I did. To my everlasting shame.
She left me for another, cheated and abused my heart.
2 years later I am mostly healed from that scar.
Yet the scar remains as an ugly testimony of my past.
For a time I sought to eventually replace what was missing.
Even after healing it seemed like a good thought.
No longer does this thought tempt me.
Relationships fill the emptiness and loneliness that comes at night,
but the cost is high.
I remember being very disappointed when I learned the reality of sex.
Knowing the sweet things I thought married couples were, was only exterior.
I had more pain and anguish than joy and laughter.
Perhaps the sign of who I was married to.
After all is said and done, I am alone. I know longer hang with friends.
Gone are the days of talking into the night with friends.
I go to the movies alone, cross the country alone, and in general am alone.
I can seek friends but all my age are occupied with wives and kids.
Being divorced is a stigma that robs the soul of joy.
I sought solace in the Scriptures, and peace I received.
First Corinthians I listened to yesterday, and I learned I am ok.
I am not at fault for the scar I bear, and I should not seek a ring.
My Father God takes care of my needs, I live for Him.
I just want these words to always be true.
With my education and background I should be a model Christian,
Yet I keep getting in the way.
I feel filthy and know that without Christ's blood I am toast.
I want desperately to always love and obey, but I fail miserably
Who will free me from this body of Death.
Thus I live one day at a time, scared and healed,
constantly being pruned and cleaned, but never again whole.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Evolution problems
Here are some postings I placed on Facebook showing my issues with modern evolution theory.
The explanation given in class today was concerning the supposed change from prokaryotic to eukaryotic cells. The problem is that eukaryotic cells, or cells with nucleus and organelles etc., are irreducibly complex. In other words without just one piece they cease to function.
The explanation involved getting a bunch of prokaryotic, single cells... Read More no nucleus organisms to band together into a colony. Then they might form symbiotic relationships. then they might form endosymbiotic relationships. (One organism lives in another). Eventually the cells become specialized and when one cell decides to reproduce the entire organism then you have an eukaryotic or multi-celled organism.
This just doesn't work, nor are there any examples of it. Even supposing it could somehow be feasible, it still does not explain how the cell structure begins, only how different cells start to work differently.
This is besides the fact that the mechanism for genetic change, mutation is touted as a working process. This is because they change the definition for mutation. As it was explained was any change in the organism, (including natural variations in the genome).
I am OK with the basic tenets of Natural selection, as that only shows that certain ... Read More characteristics of creatures will survive over time, and that the creature will not remain if it cannot adapt.
The problem comes that to change to another species, or another kind of organism, the DNA has to change data sets. There is only so much you can change by adaptation and genetics, but then you get into mutations in the chromosomes. This is where modern sciences tells us that the meat of evolution occurs. The problem is that whenever you mutate or change DNA this way it is a negative mutation, and usually will kill the host. This is one of reasons we have so many diseases, they are genetic failures.
Natural changes, mutations, without a guiding hand to make them beneficial result in damage or loss to the data stored in the DNA. You can't come up with data from no data, which is exactly what my professor was attempting to us. That with time and the need for adaptation to the environment the data will appear and the mutations will occur to fix whatever the problem might be. That is contrary to the way things work in real life.
My professor even admitted to the staggering odds against the possibility of life forming from nothing with evolution. However he just shrugged it off as wow weren't we lucky it did anyway.
It is mathematically impossible for life to arise or evolve once, much less every change to get us from single celled organisms to complex mammals.
Yet because they see no other option science ignores data that shows they wrong and plows on generating hundreds of theories to back up a theory flawed from its foundation.
The explanation given in class today was concerning the supposed change from prokaryotic to eukaryotic cells. The problem is that eukaryotic cells, or cells with nucleus and organelles etc., are irreducibly complex. In other words without just one piece they cease to function.
The explanation involved getting a bunch of prokaryotic, single cells... Read More no nucleus organisms to band together into a colony. Then they might form symbiotic relationships. then they might form endosymbiotic relationships. (One organism lives in another). Eventually the cells become specialized and when one cell decides to reproduce the entire organism then you have an eukaryotic or multi-celled organism.
This just doesn't work, nor are there any examples of it. Even supposing it could somehow be feasible, it still does not explain how the cell structure begins, only how different cells start to work differently.
This is besides the fact that the mechanism for genetic change, mutation is touted as a working process. This is because they change the definition for mutation. As it was explained was any change in the organism, (including natural variations in the genome).
I am OK with the basic tenets of Natural selection, as that only shows that certain ... Read More characteristics of creatures will survive over time, and that the creature will not remain if it cannot adapt.
The problem comes that to change to another species, or another kind of organism, the DNA has to change data sets. There is only so much you can change by adaptation and genetics, but then you get into mutations in the chromosomes. This is where modern sciences tells us that the meat of evolution occurs. The problem is that whenever you mutate or change DNA this way it is a negative mutation, and usually will kill the host. This is one of reasons we have so many diseases, they are genetic failures.
Natural changes, mutations, without a guiding hand to make them beneficial result in damage or loss to the data stored in the DNA. You can't come up with data from no data, which is exactly what my professor was attempting to us. That with time and the need for adaptation to the environment the data will appear and the mutations will occur to fix whatever the problem might be. That is contrary to the way things work in real life.
My professor even admitted to the staggering odds against the possibility of life forming from nothing with evolution. However he just shrugged it off as wow weren't we lucky it did anyway.
It is mathematically impossible for life to arise or evolve once, much less every change to get us from single celled organisms to complex mammals.
Yet because they see no other option science ignores data that shows they wrong and plows on generating hundreds of theories to back up a theory flawed from its foundation.
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