4 Misconceptions Concerning Angels

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Renaissance art, pseudoreligious books, and movies have all established a certain image of angels in pop culture. While in some ways this image is totally accurate (they usually get the concept of them being servants of God right), there tends to be a lot that is believed simply because people have believed those things for centuries. Note the absence of the word “millenia” in the previous sentence, which describes how long ago the Bible stopped being written. In the following paragraphs, I’ll try to present a few of the more blatant ones that may or may not outshine the keyboard scene from that one NCIS episode in the spectrum of things made up by ignorant… we’ll call them “artists.”

That’s… not how… how did you get even a single degree, McFluke?!
For that matter, how did you even graduate high school?

So, without further ado, a list of angelic characteristics that are completely uncharacteristic of angels:

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obdaddy Conclusion

I’m not going to go into all the non-logics of my discussion with obdaddy that I missed yesterday, but I just have to mention the ending of his last message. It was in response to my last message, wherein I cited a few bits of evidence in favor of the Bible (specifically, archaelogical and genetic). His response was this:

…Had you come back with personal anecdote, perhaps an honest if subjective discussion on your personal reasons I might be more willing to continue. Genetic evidence? next you’ll be saying that the Theory of Evolution is simply a theory. Like saying a bat is simply a winged mammal that baseball players use to hit a ball.

I’m pretty confused by that last sentence – he seems to be attacking my ability to tell the difference between a bat animal and the baseball equipment. Whatever – anyway, what I wanted to draw attention to was the first sentence. Essentially, what he’s saying is that he’s put off by me citing facts. He would be more willing to continue the discussion if I just told a personal story. This is the same guy who has consistently told me that I am afraid of or blind to logic. He claims to be more logical, while criticizing me for using facts instead of a personal story to support my view. And FYI, whether or not you think the Theory of Evolution is true, it is a theory. Just as it is not possible to prove God’s existence because it requires faith, so it is impossible to prove evolution because humans have not existed long enough to get a sufficient sample of biological development to prove evolution. And without proof, a theory is no more than a theory.

New Blog! – By The Bible

I’ve started a third, and final, blog; By The Bible. This blog will overlap some with SCAAC, but it will focus on the Bible and its commands in an overall basis. It may touch on politics (for instance: abortion, obeying the law, and so forth), but will be different in many ways (no talk of capitalism vs. socialism and such). Several posts/pages will be re-posted under this blog. All pages under The Bible have been deleted and the root page of The Bible itself provides a link to the new The Bible page under the new blog. From now on, that’s where I’ll be posting Bible pages. I’ll probably link back and forth between the two blogs a lot, but it shouldn’t be difficult, because the designs are nearly identical. Also, the subtitles of both blogs provide the URL for the other blog.

Bible Update – Genesis 1 & 2

Chapter 1 of Genesis has been re-vamped to include verse numbers.  Chapter 2 of Genesis has been added.

Bible Update – Matthew 13

Chapter 13 of Matthew has been uploaded under “The Bible”.

Bible Update – Ephesians 4

Having quoted the “unwholesome talk” verse when laying the ground rules for comments, I feel it is necessary to make that easily available.  Chapter 4 of Ephesians has been uploaded under the “The Bible” page.

The Bible

As I’ve stated before, I’m a Christian. Now, let me explain a little more specifically than that. By Christian, I mean Christ is not only my savior but also my LORD (and everything that implies). I go to a nondenominational church here in North Carolina. Our sister churches developed from a split between several Christians with the mainline Church of Christ.

Now I could go on about doctrine and such, but what it boils down to is that we do what the Bible says. Period. We have some differences of opinion about what, exactly, it says; but we’re all clear on that which the bible is clear. For example, cursing is sin. Also, lust and extramarital sex are sin. And so on and so forth. Now, since I’ll be referencing the Bible on occasion, I figure I’ll make a category of pages that are the Bible itself over the course of time. I’ll be using the NIV (not that others are bad, it’s just the one I know). The complete NIV (and many other versions) are available at biblegateway.com. The Zondervan people can sue me if they want, but I don’t believe they should have copyright rights, since they didn’t write the Bible.

Hello World! My Name is Andrew.

I’m sorry, but I had to do the “Hello World!” thing, I’m a computer science major. Now just a bit about me and what this blog will be about.

I’m an avid reader of IMAO and occassional reader of Treacher and others and figured I’d start my own. I also watch Zo (through IMAO) and Crowder (through YouTube). Obviously, I’m a rightwing extremist, as stated by a recent Department of Homeland Security report, since, as a conservative, I hate abortion. And that, my friends, is what this blog will be about. Conservatism…not abortion…

Now, unlike IMAO and Treacher, this blog will focus a bit more on the issues and news and a bit less on the humor. Why? Frankly, because I’m not that funny and I’ll leave that up to the professionals. But I like to think I’m funny. I’ll try to make jokes along the way. If they’re bad, let me know, so I can look like an even bigger idiot when I ignore you.

Another thing is that, unlike atheist conservative Harvey, I am a Christian. I hope to have a second blog, or second category, or something for that because, as you will see, they’ll often separate in topic. But there will be much overflow, so maybe I’ll abandon that whole idea. I’m so decisive, it hurts.

Now, as a Christian, I have a few requests to make of anyone who comments on my blog.

Don’t use foul language. By that, I mean that anything that counts as “unwholesome talk.” Avoid any profanity or misuse of God’s or Jesus’ names or titles. And while insults to me and to others will happen, please try to practice restraint.

I WILL DELETE/CENSOR POSTS WITH PROFANITY OR MISUSE OF ONE OF THE TRINITY’S NAME OR TITLE. Other than that, I will merely request courtesy to everyone.

Let me clarify the whole “misuse” thing real quick. If you say “Thank God…” that’s OK by me. But if you say something like “Jesus!” (as in an exclamation like “Darn!”) that will not be tolerated. I’ll delete the post (and nothing more).

Let’s see… That’s pretty much it. I’ll tell ya’ll a bit about myself and then move on to the first real post.

I’m a student at North Carolina State University – College of Engineering. I’m majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Spanish (to my fellow haters of illegal immigration and such; I’m just learning Spanish because I want to – not because I think people should). I currently work in a fast-food joint near campus. You gottaneedagettawanna have their chicken fried. I LOVE country music/southern rock. I don’t really hate any kind of music (I even have a rap song or two – and by that, I mean two). But I can’t stand the women-degrading, drug-promoting, or sex-promoting stuff.

My background in politics/religion. My parents are both hardline conservative Christians (but I don’t take what they say on faith, generally, as per the parable of the soils, I have my own roots). My dad and I talk both a lot and agree VERY closely on pretty much everything. He’s a carpenter/private construction contractor, which I love. Because, when he gets into debates with preachers/ministers and they ask what he does, he gets to say “I’m just a humble carpenter.” It’d be totally awesome if we were Jewish (“race”, not religion). My mom’s a self-employed accountant for a few local businesses. I’m the oldest of four children. My brother, adopted from India, is a year and a half younger than me. My sister is three weeks younger than him. I swear, she was not born, but cloned from my mother. My other sister is a year and a half younger than her…putting our birthdays only two days apart…which I hate. We live in rural suburbs, raise chickens, and have a garden. Before we moved here, we lived on the grounds of the church “R” Camp in Culpeper, Virginia, where my dad was the caretaker/constructiony-person and my mom was the administrator. So, I’m from the country and I like it that way. The town had two stop signs, no stop lights, one mom ‘n pop store and no four-way intersections.

One last thing. I’ll link to tons of songs, websites, articles and such, but do not necessarily agree with them all on everything. For example, I don’t agree with the cursing in the IMAO posts, but they still make good points…and are usually rather funny, too (but only if you’re not a Kool-Aid Drinkin’ liberal hippie).