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hiya, this week has been ok for all you people that are so deeply interested. Not much going on, nothing too special. I gotta go to a wedding tomorrow, waeitwpaoitjawpotijw :/ w/e i'll enjoy the long car ride.

One thing that kinda has my attention is this set of dvd's which is like the 5 most prominent religions in the world. My dad bought em, and he told me to watch them. The religions are judiasm, islam, christianity, buddhism, hinduism. I think it'll be really healthy for me to know more about other religions, especially the main ones at least. I've had my fair share of confrontations w/ other religions and i think it would be relaly good to know the the main points to have something to base off of. I remmeber pastor stephen gaves us that book w/ all the religions, lol i never got aroudn to reading it. I should...

I mean its good to know those right? I figure if i was born 3000 miles elsewhere, o i dont know, in like India or the middle east, most likely i wouldnt be a christian. I'd probably be muslim, islam, or hindu or something. It would be really close minded if i just denied myself any other information. If i were to flip it around and a buddhist person refused to listen to the gospel, we would find him or her really stubborn right? Well if im gonna make an actual effort to reach out to people i know who's parents are buddhist or jewish, then i realy cant do it head first arms flailing so to speak. ANYWAY, its really really cold, parents still havent turned on the heat. The teperature thing says 40 degrees O_o

Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-8a and 13
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails....And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (NIV)

This week has been pretty meaty, i hadnt really had much time to just relax and just think to myself. A combination of a bunch of extra curricular activities and school has really taken up a lot of my time. I can tell its starting to affect me in a lot of ways. I notice in the morning prayers i feel so much less fufilled and more empty because i havent had saturday prayers and even a sunday service. I have to admit, whenever i dont have those things to really fall back on and reflect, i feel, idk less complete? Im not sure if im too reliant on saturday's and sunday's to kinda get the juices flowing so to speak.

Well to that passage, for some reason the words love is patient or love is slow to anger always comes to my head, maybe God is trying to continuely tell me this daily. I looked up the entire passage and here it is. This is most defintely something i wanna memorize and just say to myself. Not as some kind of mantra or discipline, maybe more as a reminder, an encourage, a benchmark because love that is forced or conditional is so ugly, but true, christian, brotherly, self sacricing love is so amazing.

that's just an amazing passage

science and religion....yea i know i know

Here's a little disclaimer, personally i really loathe these intellectual debates and things cuase it sometimes gets too inpersonal and pretty ugly often....BUT its still essential as far as making a real choice through facts, not just blind faith soooooo

Hey guys, i was watching this debate with the guys from the way of the master and these two people from a group called RRS. Pastor Steve, I have a feeling you've seen it, cause i think i remember in the first eternity yo utalked about our eyes, and ray comfort said the same thing.

well anyway, they were arguing about the existence of God, and a counter arguement as far as creation needing a creator was that why cant the universe be constant? If God is eternal, why cant the universe just be eternal? Now, i read a thing that makes sense which is that what atheists believe is something complex, i think the n or m theory, where there's a multiverse, something larger then our universe, larger then what we can see. And in that multiverse, universes like ours are randomly created. But basically atheists just replace "God" with "universe". So really the question is intelligent design, we believe this world was built with a purpose in mind, atheists believe in pure chance and randomness. There is so much to prove intelligent design, but my problem is i dont see how we can use hte "painter painting" reasoning, if an atheist can just say the universe was constant, no creator. And the whole point of that debate was to prove God scientifically. It's hard for me to prove intelligent design scientfically, most of my reasoning is really just, well reasoning. It doesnt seem anywhere reasonable to me that this coudl all be chance, that the niagara falls, the mona lisa, pavrotti's singing, could all just be pure chance.

I know this is really really incoherent and hard to follow, but you guys can just watch the debate on youtube or somethning. My question to you all is to help me out with this intelligent design/universe being eternal issue so that if i'm asked by an atheist i would be prepared to answer rationally and reasonably.