I’ve been tagged by Bryon aka A.Admin who writes at Aberration blog and Peter at Beauty of the Bible (they must really not like me) to list ‘Ten Random Beliefs’. There are no rules. I believe:
- Everyone is crazy but to a different degree and
- Jesus was perfectly sane and is our model of a perfectly sane person
- There is no intelligent life in the universe other than on earth
- No matter how hard we try, we can’t figure ourselves out
- All of the books of the Protestant canon (which is what I’m familiar with) are valuable and can teach us more than we realize
- Grand Theft Auto is an evil game and don’t know how any Christians who want to be holy could play it
- It’s wrong to add flavors to coffee
- In reading commentaries all the way through
- Hair should not by dyed
- Suits and ties are conforming to the world in the form of corporate culture
So, there’s some stuff about me you probably didn’t want to know.
#3 – With you there.
#5 – Yes.
#7 – Oh no!!! The only way to enjoy coffee is to temper the bitterness with sweet white chocolate syrup and milk!
#10 – My congregation would disagree with you, at least when it comes to what the preacher wears!
#7 – Even though I roast my own coffee and evaluate coffee for others, I admit I used a bit of milk and sugar because I’m so sensitive to bitterness. But really good coffee roasted well has so many flavors in it naturally, I would never want to add additional flavor and cover up the great flavors God put in it.
#10 – I know that’s a big thing in the church. Never understood the suits. I would even agree with a pulpit but I don’t think a suit has anything to do with respecting the proclamation of God’s words.
Jeff
#1 – #10, I like them all…
#3 – There’s intelligent life on Earth?
#6 – I kinda like the squish sound (GTAIII) when driving over people
#3 I almost put “even though we’re all depraved”
#6 don’t make me come over there
Play GTA (III or anything past that) and you’ll know how.
I’m going to have a lot of coming over there to do.
Nick,
Guard that dick, he may have figured out the neat squish sound.
DUCK! I meant “duck”!
Re #10 Admittedly I do not like neckties and try to wear them as infrequently as possible. With this predisposition I was, therefore, quite happy to see a “theological” justification for their jettison.
In his book THE BOOK OF JEWISH KNOWLEDGE: 613 BASIC FACTS ABOUT JUDAISM (Jason Aronson Inc: Northvale NJ, 1991) Rabbi David E. Cahn-Lipman mentions, in a passing comment, that “many Chasidic men will not wear a tie or scarf while praying because it symbolically separates their minds from their hearts”(p. 147).
This practice of not wearing neckties in one part of Judaism seems like a great idea that we Christian men should also embrace.
And, since it not just while praying that we might not want “to separate our mind from our heart”, perhaps neckties should be phased out completely. Perhaps this could also include clerical collars?
Completely unrelated, but I saw your cats on fb. Funny, I would have pegged you for a dog person.
Edward, that must be a very old idea that the necktie would separate the mind from the heart but I’m all for abolishing them.
Peter, I’m definitely a cat person. We had a “wussy dog” that we took over from my mother-in-law though (toy poodle) and I got to love him dearly. Dogs are great too. I like how we can have miniature versions of big wild cats in our homes.
Jeff