The Journy of Paul

To hear and to listen are not synonyms, there is a slight nuance to these words. One is more active then the other. One can be more involuntary while the other is actively natural and must be mastered to communicate effectively. The differences are, hearing is a process of perceiving sound, while listening is more of a thoughtful attention to what is being said. Hearing is passive, you may hear it but not understand, concentration is not necessary. Listening is active and requires concentration. Approaching the subject of Christianity and having ears. There are many references in the New Testament regarding having ears and not hearing, in some cases having eyes and not seeing. When Jesus spoke the parables of the mustard seed and yeast, both are tiny yet spread everywhere, thus the Kingdom of Heaven is like them. A tiny bit will go an exceptionally long way. However, prior to these parables he also spoke of a prophecy of Isaiah, “though seeing, they do not see, though hearing, they...

Fallacy of Christian Doctrine The title alone is probably more than enough to get most people not to read this blog post. I get it. God created man in his own image which means he created us to be like him. We are driven to understand and to create. When we see something or find something new, we are driven to understand what we saw or found. We don’t like not knowing. God is one of those things we will never understand, except, and I do preface it with “maybe” the day we stand in front of him. Try as we might to explain as many aspects of God as we can, we still do not know if we are right. I have heard Christians say, “If this isn’t true, then the whole bible isn’t true.” They are predicating their belief based upon their doctrinal understanding of something in the bible. The Doctrine of the trinity is a fine example. Our so-called early church fathers had to deal with a balance. In Judaism there is but only one God, but now all of a sudden there is Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Two...