Gentiles For Jesus

Below is an interesting dialogue between two organisational leaders. Their respective movements represent diametrically opposite views on whether Messianic Jews should practice Torah.

http://ffoz.org/blogs/2008/07/jews_for_jesus.html

If the Jewish church cannot agree, what hope is there for the Gentile church?
How should a Gentile believer behave?

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Taxing Robots

I have joined a self-sufficient ‘sharing’ community. At the outset, community functions were divided equally and tasks allocated to everybody. Community ‘credits’ are earned based on the completion of tasks and debited when the services of another are consumed.

My role, like that of a few others, is to wash and dry dishes. I love it. Normally, I could turn around about 240 dishes per day, which is a few more than what my counterparts can do. However, on Tuesday I finally commissioned my new invention that washes and dries 5000 dishes in 12 hours.

So now I do all of the dishes. I have far more credits and free time so I have launched a few initiatives. I have opened a bank for people who want to borrow credits to also work on inventions. I have started a charity for ex-dish-washers and others who no longer have enough work in their specialised fields. I am also opening a psychological advice practice to help the spiralling number of problems arising in the community.

These days, community life sucks. Relationships are abrasive and tensions are high. If I could turn back time to that Tuesday and make different decisions I would. Should I have shared the benefits of my automation in another way?

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Dodos and Dragons

One ate grass like an ox and lived amongst lotus plants, marsh reeds and willows. The other had powerful limbs, airtight scales, smoking nostrils and a fiery breath [Bible:OT:Job40-41].

Some theologians and scholars interpret Behemoth and Leviathan as symbolic mythical beings which denote power and invincibility. Maybe. Or is this intellectualism to distance our pride from simple, yet unbelievable truths?

Some bible translations speak instead of the hippo and the crocodile. I have seen both, but I have never seen a crocodile billow smoke nor breathe fire. They are ferocious yes, but not invincible.

Is it really too difficult to believe that these were tremendous beasts which have simply become extinct?

Leviathan. Myth, Croc or Extinct ?

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