Some pieces of music are really special

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIHcK7Qjw6Y

If you can't listen to this without getting impatient you probably can't read the Bible either. Provoke your limits; extend your limits...

When anybody dies

When someone dies, anyone, it should, if anything, give people the realization that our days are numbered and only activities that truly develop us in an *essential* way should get the vast majority of our attention...like, stop being shallow and desultory in your reading, Christians; get the word of God *engrafted* into your heart - fused into memory, will, and understanding - via a stated goal of complete readings; and get on-the-mark biblical doctrine into understanding to where it becomes the actual armor of God. Be systematic about it, and don't keep going over old ground, and be complete about it as well. There is such a thing as terminal understanding of ultimate things.

"Somebody has died...how do we play games with it?"

It is one of the creepier marks of fallen human nature when a community or person talks publicly about the death of a person but holds back information on how they died. Especially when the person was relatively young.

What the creepy people are doing is this: "I have information you don't have, and I am going to tease you with it. Don't you feel teased now, hmm? Ha, ha."

And this: "I'm going to tempt you to have to *ask* me (us) how the person died. Then we are going to slam you sanctimoniously by suggesting that such personal details and salacious curiosity are out of place and that we should be remembering the person in respect. Thank you." Then, with a silent: "Tee hee hee!"

For survival itself it's rather natural to want to know how people die. In other words, so that we avoid the same damn thing.

The PuritanBoard lives up to its reputation. Apparently a moderator sent out a private note on the death of a long time contributor (no doubt including cause of death, unless it was asphyxiation while masturbating) then now has posted a public post about the person leaving out the cause of death, knowing very well non-member readers would be teased by the act. Way to be creepy even in the context of somebody's death.

By the way, the PuritanBoard member died of asphyxiation (self-strangling, in a closet) while in the act of masturbation. We just have to go on that until they see fit to satisfy our salacious curiosity.

Curt response to a dispensationalist

[The dispensationalist started off by saying covenant theologians are always saying, "You guys just don't understand us."]

This is silly. It is Dispensationalists who need to resort to such exasperation. Covenant theologians from the Westminster Divines to Louis Berkhof were quite capable of making themselves understood.

I'll use a sports analogy. Dispensationalism is like Arena Football trying to get attention by pretending to be at the same level as the NFL. I.e. it's not a serious debate. When you learn Covenant Theology it is an inwardly-directed study. We are *moved* to learn it and get parts in relation to the whole understanding of it. We end up reading and studying influences such as Vos and Bavinck and the Westminster Divines and Berkhof and Turretin and on and on all set against the raw material of the word of God which we have as foundation; then Dispensationalists (Arena Football enthusiasts) come along and tell us we need to read *Ryrie*. Do you see the difference in scale here? The difference in seriousness?

There is too much at stake for me to even debate Dispensationalists. I stand upon the Pactum Salutis as my very Constitution and legal standing in the Kingdom of God. I see it, I understand it, I was never approached by anybody to learn it (unlike Dispensationalism), but was guided and inspired and illuminated by the Holy Spirit Himself to learn it and get understanding of it.

Arena Football may be entertaining for some people, but biblical doctrine is *armor of God.* With armor you want the real thing. The Kingdom of Satan and the Kingdom of God are all too serious a reality to fool around with anything less than the real thing; with anything less than the real armor of God.

Reading Peter Enns and his followers and his peers is like seeing and feeling the sickening manifestation of hell itself

After again reading Peter Enns' blog, and then following links and reading some of his peers, I think the one thing that is most striking in it all is how incredibly unself-aware and juvenile and intellectually mediocre the academics involved are. Not only that but the culture of specialists in academia, how they grant to specialists in other fields a kind of glass-eyed worship (as long as it is returned of course), and how non-serious it all is. In politics we've been taken over by village idiots, but academia seems to be in beyond-village idiot realm.

It is actually sickening being in an environment of such people. I was going to say 'self-identified Christians' who reject or can't see the truth, but at this point I'm not even sure they would identify as Christian.

Again, the analogy I used before of the person who is convicted to a term in prison. Prison guards see the phenomenon. The convict doesn't realize right away that he is no longer in control. He's not awake to the fact that the state *can* lock him up and not let him out. He's got a grin on his face, he jokes with the guards, he greets his new home (cell) humorously, "Hey, I guess we're here, eh?" They escort him in and then leave and shut the thick metal door and lock it. It still hasn't gotten through to the inmate that he is no longer in control. Dinner time rolls around and he's wondering how he gets someone's attention that he needs to go to his favorite restaurant.

Peter Enns and his fellow reprobate (actually vain and juvenile to the point of embarrassment) liberal 'Christian' academics still think they are in control. Who's stopping them? They can mock God and God's people and dictate from the ivory tower and get angry and throw their little credentialed lightning bolts and write books for children and teach in putative conservative seminaries and on and on. Why not? They are in control. God surely isn't, right?

This is why hell exists.

Peter Enns is now going public with his anger

I found this comment to a blog post on the subject of the historicity of Adam to be generally revealing:

"Reasons 9 and 10 are the real reasons behind the anxiety in Reformed circles about the Adam debate. [...] The whole covenant theology apparatus collapses without a concrete man named [Adam], and then the Bible becomes a mystery again instead of an “owner’s manual” that you’ve exhaustively explained."

[The reasons 9 and 10 that he references are these:
"9. Without a historical Adam, Paul’s doctrine of original sin and guilt does not hold together.

10. Without a historical Adam, Paul’s doctrine of the second Adam does not hold together."]

http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2012/02/07/reasons-to-believe-in-a-historical-adam/

See, the guy who wrote the comment resents that the Bible can actually be understood in a parts-in-relation-to-the-whole way. Because this forces him to accept what the Bible says rather than plastering his own meaning onto (or into) the Bible's mystery.

And he, and others like him, are currently using science (Peace Be Upon It) as their Trojan Horse. Only this horse is not filled with Danaan heroes. It's filled with intellectual village idiots with a sense of empowerment derived from the recent popularity of books of very aggressive, militant - and really stupid - atheism.

Darwinian evolution has been dying an agonizingly slow death since Darwin himself expressed disappointment in the fossil record regarding it giving any evidence for his theory. DNA arrived, and the evolutionists got really scared, started to run for the tall grass, then realized they could just pretend that it supported a belief in macro evolution (i.e. the belief that fish turn into race horses). Now lab work with genome theory grants has been taken up by the same village idiots as 'proof' that fish do, indeed, turn into race horses (and hence also proving that Bach's music is no better or worse than Radiohead's third album). The fact that genes behave in a mysterious manner that they can't figure out (i.e. it's like they're *alive* or something) is something they are going to have to just set on a shelf for now.

But let's end with a point about 'scale' and psychopathology. Peter Enns has recently been getting publicly angry that anyone would even think to write a *blog post* suggesting his view about how the biblical Adam is not historical, and how evolution changes how we have to read the Bible, etc. is wrong. In other words, Peter Enns is now publicly showing his developing psychopathology. One trait of this, in a Devil-addled unbeliever with a quasi-Christian academic degree, is the same trait you see in other walks of life namely an inability to discern *scale.* In Peter Enns' case it's his inability to see the psychosis of thinking his little collective blog posts just totally decimate all theology of all eras of human history prior to the birth of Peter Enns. Yes, aiding him in his belief that he is a big mountain and all of history before him is a series of little mole hills is his great weapon he calls Evolution. (It became evident in an exchange with him that he didn't even know the distinction between micro and macro evolution, which pretty much gave away he really doesn't want to know *too much* about Evolution but just wants to use it as a means to exalt himself above all history and all peoples and all theology from all eras prior to his birth.)

And to what end? He's full up to his inane academic gills with vanity and pride and self-will, and he is in rebellion to his Creator and values the self-revelation of his Creator (the Bible) about as much as he values any book with counter-arguments against macro evolution (he doesn't think they exist...he references the name 'scientist' the way some Roman Catholics reference the name 'Pope').

Where is Peter Enns now? He's living the normal life of a typically shallow and vain academic. Where will he be in the future? Like, when all the 'vitalism' in his genes disappears? Where? Peter, where will you be? You won't be in control like you think you are now. The belief that they are still in control is the last thing an inmate loses as they are being processed and introduced to the heavy, locked door of their penitentiary cell. And hell is much worse.

People want their bad doctrine, and you can't take it away from them

Ha, ha, the Reverend is now experiencing what many of us experience on a regular basis, on his own forum as well. The Reverend Buchanan (http://www.puritanboard.com/f15/escondido-theology-72176/#post928586) writes an eminently on-the-mark, well-written post that pretty much should set everybody in the thread straight, and what happens? The spirit of bad doctrine takes over and an otherwise low key Reverend (Winzer) writes a response claiming that the Reverend Buchanan's post will cause all Christians to be slaughtered all over the planet and disappear. So, Reverend Buchanan, welcome to the ranks of Christians who can only step back and scratch their head, raise an eyebrow over one eye, adopt a bemused grin, and wonder how actual wisdom well-spoken means pretty much nothing when the spirit of bad doctrine has got hold of people. People will counter Jesus Christ Himself. To His face. WRONG!

The PuritanBoard on their way to becoming the BarthianBoard

http://www.puritanboard.com/f15/what-whole-union-christ-debate-72573/

Mainly because they can't discern a rather obvious attack on justification by faith alone. Like the slow hand of a clock, no visible movement yet movement, they traverse over to neo-orthodoxy. They couldn't have their theonomy, so they're going to have *something*, damn it. "And by God it's going to undermine something BIG! You just watch..."

So they've slipped under the influence of some rather shallow Ph.Ds and Ph.D candidates over at Westminster Philadelphia who have found relief from Reformed orthodoxy by chanting, "Union with Christ! It's all union with Christ! What? You disagree? O, brother, can't you see the light? What could you possibly have against union with Christ?!? Cast off that burden of the so-called 'five solas' and its ugly twin sister the so-called 'doctrines of grace'! Cast it off! It's all union with Christ! Just look how much we have to explore now! There's, like, eight hundred and sixty-five volumes of Church Dogmatics! Come on! We're free now!!"

This is truth. Suck it up. Apply it.

"...your argument seems to be founded upon the idea that God works through the Word to an individual in a vacuum. Union with Christ does not occur in a vacuum, it occurs in the sphere of the visible church." Spoken by a pastor of a Baptist church.

Got Romanism?

In this Christian's experience (oh, a word they hate) it occurs by the means of the word of God with the presence of the Holy Spirit. Your local 'church' can go to hell. And probably will.

And let's talk about your little 'visible' church. It respects persons (which God hates). It polices a fear of man (which God says a follower of Christ doesn't do but fears God alone). It puts a man in the place of the only Mediator between God and man Jesus Christ (yeah, there's a reason God tells us the only Mediator between God and man is Jesus Christ). It talks, and talks, and talks about anything and everything from its 'pulpit' but refuses (with secret delight) to proclaim the actual word of God pure and without asinine commentary from a fool with a piece of paper from something called a 'seminary' who doesn't know his ass from his elbow regarding the faith and the word of God and couldn't discern the truth if you put a gun to his fat head and doesn't value discerning the truth because it doesn't give him worldly pleasure to discern the truth.

Oh, what else? Oh, yeah, their little 'church' is more worldly than a house of prostitution, and that's how you like it, because, you know, you make yourself, a good upstanding 'family man', the standard. You're good you see because you slumped your little wife and had children, and we all know that the Bible says the faith is *all about family and marriage and backslapping at picnics when you get another one in the oven*, right? Because Jesus had eight kids and always talked about his wife and how the faith was all about family and mother and father and wife and kids, right? Put your corrupt, Romanist Bible down. Get out of your little devil-occupied building you call a 'church', get down on your chubby little knees, and ask God for forgiveness for all the time you've wasted and perverted keeping people away from the faith and the word of God. Enough with you useful idiots of the devil. Enough with you.

A good King James Bible site

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1611-Bible/

Look at the links at the bottom of the page, there is also a mirror site for the KJV in regular spelling.

Just a simple site. For me, different font for an online KJV is something.

Just read Psalm 24 in the old spelling. It gave me impressions of how land on this planet use to be connected. It gave me impressions of how current scientific pretension in attempting to overthrow the Creator is such a small thing against the Reality of the Creator and how reading that psalm 24 gave me impressions of God as Science, real science, though that sounds silly, you know what I mean.

The Apostle Paul visits the PuritanBoard

Apostle Paul: "Gentleman, gentlewomen, greetings."

Moderator X: "Fix your signature per the rules. Thank you."

Apostle Paul: "Um, yes. Modern technology. There, think I've got it."

--- Apostle Paul ignored for six days because they sense there's something strange about him. ---

Apostle Paul: "So, I see there's some dispute about the Epistle to the Hebrews..."

Long Time Member 1: "So? What's the question? You could google that there's a dispute."

Long Time Member 2: "What do you mean by 'dispute'? Are you saying it's not canonic?"

Long Time Member 3: "Paul, we must be very careful here. Many people read this forum who aren't members. We really need to recognize that if we don't have the understanding of the Bible and doctrine that the seminary graduates here have we should probably adopt a posture of learning and not make statements based on things we have little or no understanding of."

--- Meeting of Moderators behind the scenes concerning whether new member Apostle Paul is to be allowed to stay on the forum. Rules state that said member will be warned before being banned, but in unusual cases - people who they sense are 'strange' - the tactic agreed upon to be adopted is the old standby to hold the new member to a standard designed to get them to 'ban themselves.' The Apostle Paul is now 'in the dock.' ---

Apostle Paul: "I may be able to provide some insight on the subject of the Epistle to the Hebrews..."

Long Time Member 1: "New insight? You get this 'new insight' via some type of New Age psychic activity?"

Long Time Member 2: "Psychic Hotline."

Long Time Member 3: "LOL!! That's why I love this forum!!"

Moderator with 'Reverend' in Front of His Name: "OK, guys, I'm locking this thread. Paul, you have a private message waiting for you. I would strongly advise you to read it forthwith. This thread is now CLOSED."

--- The Apostle Paul never heard from again at the PuritanBoard ---