Foolishness

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived,
enslaved to various lusts and pleasures,
spending our life in malice and envy,
hateful, hating one another.
But when the kindness of God our Savior
and His love for mankind appeared,
He saved us,
not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness,
but according to His mercy,
by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
so that being justified by His grace
we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Titus 3:3-7

My daughter left a little book on the dining table entitled "Heidegger". She borrowed it from the Riverview library for one of her classes... maybe Philosophy. She reads a lot of books. some of them I also read. Seeing the book, I was curious. The first chapter read "An Ontology of Ourselves"... wooohh... big word. Then there's hermeneutic... this book is really too much for a little mind like mine. Well, that did not prevent me from googling such big words. On Christian biblical hermeneutics, Wikipedia states 'it has become increasingly common, at least in academia, to read Scripture just like any other writing, though precisely what that means is not without dispute.' My issue is: What is there to dispute about the Scripture? Faith is all we need... and lo and behold, Scripture becomes like a movie... there are things you don't get and there are things you do... and at the end, there is the 'aha!' moment.

The "Ten Commandments" being displayed in government property, especially in the courthouse... now, that is the dispute... the simple truth versus the arrogance of man. The commandments, as they are in the scriptures do not need scholars in order to be understood. And no matter how one says he can be good without having to believe that there is a God, comes back to the same question: What is the basis of good and not good?... and then it goes back to the same answer: God.

Even in all our foolishness, God, in His loving mercy, sent Jesus so that we can BE SAVED.

- no Angel -