Day: June 29, 2008

Saintly intercessions.

Some Protestants have a problem with asking for saints to intercede for them. First of all, only the Roman Catholic Church has a valid process by which Big-League Saints are certified. Few professional Protestants, many having a hard time maintaining their own cash-flows, want to validate the power of the Roman Catholic Church, which may […]

The Golden Bowls. Take them literally. Remember them frequently.

The Golden Bowls. Take them literally. Remember them frequently. Frequenters of this site know that it takes Scriptural passages as literally as possible. It often does so by defining God as The Loving, Unprogrammed Programmer, a Being with the power to program particles and compile them into systems and beings. The highest points of His […]

Malachi One, verse three and Romans Nine, thirteen Make the oddest little hymn that some of us have seen:

“God hates Esau.”, Scriptures say. Doo-dah! Doo-dah! “God hates Esau.”, Scriptures say, oh doo-dah day! Should we hate him too? Is that what we should do? “God hates Esau.”, Scriptures say. Should we hate him too? God’s hated him for centuries. Still hates him today. Why does God hate Esau so? ‘Cause Esau will not […]