Done

I am moving to wordpress purely for aesthetic reasons.

ok not purely, i want to make it a bit more polished rather than this blogsite. so without further ado. (ado)

http://godplaysnodice.wordpress.com/

For your pleasure and my practice

I will be translating midrash from the Genesis Rabbah.

The NAME said to Abraham "Go!" - What is written above this excerpt? "Terah died in Haran." Rabbi Yitzhak said, "If this is a matter of calculation, until when did he request of him another 65 years?" But in the beginning you interpret, "The wicked are called dead while they are living." And accordingly, Abraham our father was afraid and said, "I will set out and they (name of heavens - angels?) will malign me, saying, "He was survived by his father and he left him in the season of his old age!" The Holy One Blessed Be He said, "to you", "I absolve you (Abraham) from filial piety to your father and mother, but I did not dismiss others from filial piety to their father or mother, not yet, but I will cause Terah's death to precede your leaving (from Ur)" - as it was said in the beginning, "Terah died " and afterward, "The NAME said to Abraham, Go!"

the problem with apologetics is that you know where you're going to end up before you start.

therefore, you divest the dialogue of its purpose: to change how and what you think about.

when you engage in dialogue with someone, the fundamental rule, regardless if they hold it or not, is that you must put your faith in suspension - if faith is surety, then there is no need for dialogue.

sometimes i suspect that im doing this whole life thing wrong.

Like a G6

We should be more suspicious of things that are beautiful.

Things that are popular are inevitably attractive...

BUT, on the other hand, "Like a G6" is hell of an addictive song.

LIKE A G6

LIKE A G6

Christianity itself drives us in two ideals, and calls us to be paradoxes, impossibilities. We condemn sin, but love those who commit it. We are called individually, but must exist in community. We are to reason, but have faith. We are to recognize the afflicted human, but treat them as God. We are to have nothing, yet everything. To abstain from the world, but live in it. We are to die, but be alive. To be human, yet commanded to be perfect. To ask of God, yet be mindful that he is not "our" God. To strive for things above, when our sight remains woefully horizontal. To be a Christian, is an impossibility. (Note, this is not the same as, it is impossible to be a Christian.)

Is faith an epistemological system? (bla bla bla)

Just a question to my many readers, or none, what is your "furnace of doubt?" I'm not talking about the form of faith, but what particular issue makes you doubt the tenets of Christianity?