I have a love hate relationship with it, I love to procrastinate, but I hate having to do all the work at the last min. For some reason I feel exhausted and done with homework, I don't get why I am paying people good money, and then them turn around and make me stress with papers and tests, midterms and finals....maybe we should cut their pay till they make us not do these then give em back their money...i wish....
i don't want to do it anymore!!!! so ill procrastinate a little more...
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Theology class
today in Theo class we were talking about sin and evil, so we had to get to the topic of the problem of evil... the problem is this...
1)A perfectly good God would want to stop evil.
2) A perfectly powerful God could stop evil.
3) Evil exists.
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Therefore God is either good, but not powerful, powerful, but not good, or neither powerful nor good.
(All this is thought up by Leibniz, this is not the final answer because anyone reading this can see there are other options as well)
But then the teacher asked about "why cant we associate evil with God, we always think that evil is on one side and God is the opposite, how could we ever say God near evil, or that it is God's problem...
The this verse came up Isaiah 45:7 "The One forming light and creating darkness, causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the Lord who does all these things."
This is a verse we don't here very often at all, calamity means disaster, ie God creates disaster...this is crazy for some to think of!!! (it took me pretty off balance at first)
but then we ask if God creates it and it is His problem why doesn't He fix it then...and the thing is and its a big THING....He has....God sent His Son to fix the problem of evil.
God may have created them, but he also healed them...and now its us who brings them upon ourselves...we do the evil on our own...not God...
I don't know its a pretty bold verse and something really to think about, I may have not got 100% the right words across here, but in my mind its a lot more clear....
just something to look at.
1)A perfectly good God would want to stop evil.
2) A perfectly powerful God could stop evil.
3) Evil exists.
=
Therefore God is either good, but not powerful, powerful, but not good, or neither powerful nor good.
(All this is thought up by Leibniz, this is not the final answer because anyone reading this can see there are other options as well)
But then the teacher asked about "why cant we associate evil with God, we always think that evil is on one side and God is the opposite, how could we ever say God near evil, or that it is God's problem...
The this verse came up Isaiah 45:7 "The One forming light and creating darkness, causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the Lord who does all these things."
This is a verse we don't here very often at all, calamity means disaster, ie God creates disaster...this is crazy for some to think of!!! (it took me pretty off balance at first)
but then we ask if God creates it and it is His problem why doesn't He fix it then...and the thing is and its a big THING....He has....God sent His Son to fix the problem of evil.
God may have created them, but he also healed them...and now its us who brings them upon ourselves...we do the evil on our own...not God...
I don't know its a pretty bold verse and something really to think about, I may have not got 100% the right words across here, but in my mind its a lot more clear....
just something to look at.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
distance
this is the time in my life i call DISTANCE. (i watched the pursuit of happyness and will labels things like this and i like it, so i may steal it, just trying it on see how it feels)
you man be asking why would i label a part of my life with distance, i mean how can one be distant from oneself...but it is who i am distant from that is the hard thing...I have been in a long term relationship for now over 2.5yrs, which for some ppl seems like a crazy long time(because it is) but the last 1.5yrs ish we have been having to do the whole long distance relationship, and it gets harder and harder everyday.
before i came to college here in Cali, we were talkin with a married couple that had went through long distant relationship as well, and we asked was it hard? And the guy said bluntly yes!!! it felt like he hit me in the face with a brick...that wasnt the answer i was looking for...i remember saying to myself and probably others as well that it was proabably just hard for them, were in a better relationship it will be fine...
how wrong was I, this is prolly the hardest thing i have ever gone through, i think that at first yes it was great that i moved away and i think it really did make us a lot stronger and really was good for both of us, but now it just SUCKS!!!!
we dont know why were in this situation i guess its cause we chose it, but it really does hurt a lot, the distance hurts a lot....
you man be asking why would i label a part of my life with distance, i mean how can one be distant from oneself...but it is who i am distant from that is the hard thing...I have been in a long term relationship for now over 2.5yrs, which for some ppl seems like a crazy long time(because it is) but the last 1.5yrs ish we have been having to do the whole long distance relationship, and it gets harder and harder everyday.
before i came to college here in Cali, we were talkin with a married couple that had went through long distant relationship as well, and we asked was it hard? And the guy said bluntly yes!!! it felt like he hit me in the face with a brick...that wasnt the answer i was looking for...i remember saying to myself and probably others as well that it was proabably just hard for them, were in a better relationship it will be fine...
how wrong was I, this is prolly the hardest thing i have ever gone through, i think that at first yes it was great that i moved away and i think it really did make us a lot stronger and really was good for both of us, but now it just SUCKS!!!!
we dont know why were in this situation i guess its cause we chose it, but it really does hurt a lot, the distance hurts a lot....
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Imago dei
Imago dei "the image of God"
We talked about this in my theology class today and for some reason it really stood out to me... I have heard it before and knew what it was all about and things like that, so it wasn't like the first time I have heard it.
But this time I heard it, it was almost like I saw it new, everyone was created imago dei ...everyone was created in the image of God...everyone has the image of God in them...(i know your all saying duh to me, dont judge me)
I just think it hit me cuase i realized how much judging I do to others or treat them like garbage, and I really needd to stop that.
The title of my blog is namaste which means "I honor the Holy One who lives in you" and now Imago Dei "The image of God"
I love people and thats why I want to become a pastor, cause Im starting to realize more about everyone...its amazing!!!!
Thank you Lord for making us in the image of you!!!
We talked about this in my theology class today and for some reason it really stood out to me... I have heard it before and knew what it was all about and things like that, so it wasn't like the first time I have heard it.
But this time I heard it, it was almost like I saw it new, everyone was created imago dei ...everyone was created in the image of God...everyone has the image of God in them...(i know your all saying duh to me, dont judge me)
I just think it hit me cuase i realized how much judging I do to others or treat them like garbage, and I really needd to stop that.
The title of my blog is namaste which means "I honor the Holy One who lives in you" and now Imago Dei "The image of God"
I love people and thats why I want to become a pastor, cause Im starting to realize more about everyone...its amazing!!!!
Thank you Lord for making us in the image of you!!!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Little book
I recently recieved a little book by A.W. Tozer, How to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Its only about 60 pages long and are a few sermons of Tozer about the Holy Spirit. I read it in a day, 1 because it was super interesting and 2 beacuse it was pretty short and i didnt feel like reading stuff for school at the time. There are some things that he said that really kinda took me back for a second...or like im still thinkin about them now.
The first thing that really blew me away was that of the Holy Spirit coming down at the Pentecost. He asks the question that since the Holy Ghost came down on them...does that mean it is here for us as well, or do we need Him to fall on us as well.
The thing that what brought me back is the thought that "duh He is here" but then I started to think about it, and maybe He is here on earth, but is He in my life?
Tozer goes on to some really convicting questions (that are really good for one to ask oneself) about ones life and what it means to really be filled with the Holy Spirit.
It was a little book that I thought I was just going to read and maybe get something from it, I didn't think that it would be something that made me review my life with God...but im glad it was given to me, its something I will be looking at for awhile now.
Paperclips (areas i paperclip in the book and are what i think are good sayins from the book)
'"do you believe that the Lord answers prayer and heals the sick?" he would reply, "sure i do" he believes it, but he dosnt teach it, and what you dont believe strongly enough to teach doesnt do you any good'
'you want His help (Gods): yes, you want a lot of His benefits, yes, but are you willing to go with Him in His opposition to the easygoing ways of the world?'
The first thing that really blew me away was that of the Holy Spirit coming down at the Pentecost. He asks the question that since the Holy Ghost came down on them...does that mean it is here for us as well, or do we need Him to fall on us as well.
The thing that what brought me back is the thought that "duh He is here" but then I started to think about it, and maybe He is here on earth, but is He in my life?
Tozer goes on to some really convicting questions (that are really good for one to ask oneself) about ones life and what it means to really be filled with the Holy Spirit.
It was a little book that I thought I was just going to read and maybe get something from it, I didn't think that it would be something that made me review my life with God...but im glad it was given to me, its something I will be looking at for awhile now.
Paperclips (areas i paperclip in the book and are what i think are good sayins from the book)
'"do you believe that the Lord answers prayer and heals the sick?" he would reply, "sure i do" he believes it, but he dosnt teach it, and what you dont believe strongly enough to teach doesnt do you any good'
'you want His help (Gods): yes, you want a lot of His benefits, yes, but are you willing to go with Him in His opposition to the easygoing ways of the world?'
Monday, February 11, 2008
Its been awhile
Alright, I know that it has been a while (ie 2 months) since my last time i wrote something on this, but i am really going to be trying to type more on here and just do things on the blog...
i think it will be fun to really be able to get to learn all this stuff, and I have a lot of things on my mind that I would like to put up as well.
So when i get some downtime (get bored at school) I think ill be writing on here a lot more often.
peACEout
i think it will be fun to really be able to get to learn all this stuff, and I have a lot of things on my mind that I would like to put up as well.
So when i get some downtime (get bored at school) I think ill be writing on here a lot more often.
peACEout
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