Jeremiah 10-13

[wolfpurplemoon]

I know this means to not believe that the stars and sun influence your life, but I don't think there's any real issue with being in awe of signs that occur in the sky, some of those things are pretty amazing sights.

Israel begs God not to destroy everything for their sins because they don't control their own destinies and can't determine what will happen to them. Well, exactly.

Jeremiah is getting to be another repetitive book, God just keeps threatening that he'll do all this bad stuff because noone worshipped him properly and he's feeling all jealous about it.

AS for Jeremiah himself, some people are getting fed up of all his prophesying and are plotting to kill him, but God says he'll get them for their plotting.

God will punish all the people in the lands around his land and then take pity on them because then they will believe in him and follow him, really?

Oh, and I wanted to share a little something on the subject of souls that makes interesting reading.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Often unbelievers equate faith in god as superstition. But faith in the unseen is a common everyday occurence for all. We have faith that the unseen restaurant worker hasn't poisoned our meal. We have faith in gravity. And scientists scientific research depends on it. Although the objectivity of science is often stressed, their work vests on several theories began in faith. They start by believing there is an orderly reality to be observed before its ever seen. Faith sees the invisible but not the nonexistant.superstition sees the unreal and nonexistant. As we learn to discern between unreality and invisible reality, we discover a world of difference.
However faith is only as valid as the object it is placed in. For example, a sick little girl is taken to a witch dr by her father. The father may have complete faith in him, but no matter how much his faith in the potion, it won't save her if it is mere water. Some years ago a man in texas found he had inherited a fortune from a relative in england he had never heard of. Even though he was completely broke, he would not believe it. He died starving. The objective truth remained, but he missed out because of his lack of faith in the unseen.
Everyone believes in something. In the realm of everyday human experience, we tend to treat facts as facts. Few of us have trouble accepting the concept disbelief can't destroy objective facts. Yet many think that by saying he isn't real they can wipe him from existance. The object of someones faith, not their intensity of belief or disbelief determines its validity.
Since the object of the christians faith is jesus, we must ask ouselves is he is a valid object for our faith. It is only by putting the hypothesis to the test of personal experience through a relationship with him that we can prove him trustworthy and absolute.
Is it only psychological? In studies psychologists try to keep the factors constant in those who have testified to a personal encounter. But the only true constant is jesus.christianity differs from autohynosis, wish fulfillment and all other such phenomena in that the subjective experience is securely bound to jesus resurrection. The fact that this happened has no meaning to me personally or experientiallyuntil I receive him into my life. But if I have only the experience
Ill begin wondering if it was real. It has to be recognized that the experience is based on a solid foundation of an objective historical fact.-paul little.