tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147103.post113329702398743072..comments2024-01-02T00:44:17.177-08:00Comments on DURABLE DATA: A Tarheel Weighs Thought on Homosexuality and the ChurchesGlenn Laynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705379907349377445noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147103.post-6213807026228073692009-10-17T08:21:28.205-07:002009-10-17T08:21:28.205-07:00THE QUESTION AND THE ANSWER
Q: "What is man ...THE QUESTION AND THE ANSWER<br /><br />Q: "What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You<br />visit him?" Psalm 8:4<br />A: "I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set<br />before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that<br />both you and your descendants may live." Deuteronomy 30:19<br /><br />Q: "Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man,<br />that you are mindful of him?" Psalm 144:3<br />A: "And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves<br />this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served<br />that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in<br />whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."<br />Joshua 24:15<br /><br />Q: "What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that<br />he could be righteous?" Job 15:14<br />A: "Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He teach in the way he<br />chooses." Psalm 25:12<br /><br />Q: "What is man, that You should magnify him, that You should set Your heart<br />on him?" Job 7:17<br />A: "Do not envy the oppressor and choose none of his ways." Proverbs 3:31<br /><br />Q: "What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You take<br />care of him?" Hebrews 2:6<br />A: "I have chosen the way of truth; your judgments I have laid before me."<br />Psalm 119:30 "Let Your hand become my help, for I have chosen Your<br />precepts."Psalm 119:173<br /><br />References:<br />Genesis 3:3,6 Deuteronomy 11:26-28; 30:19 Job 5:23 Isaiah 7:14-15; 13:12;<br />61:1 Amos 7:8 Joel 3:14 Ecclesiastes 3:1-8<br /><br />DEDICATION<br />Sir Isaac Newton<br />The greatest scientist in human history a Bible-Believing Christian, an<br />authority on the Bible's Book of Daniel committed to individual value and<br />individual libertyJim Baxterhttp://www.choicemaker.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147103.post-40741199725647726202009-10-17T08:17:46.219-07:002009-10-17T08:17:46.219-07:00Consider:
The missing element in every human '...Consider: <br />The missing element in every human 'solution' is an accurate <br />definition of the creature.<br /><br />Each individual human being possesses a unique, highly developed, and<br />sensitive perception of variety. Thus aware, man is endowed with a natural<br />capability for enacting internal mental and external physical selectivity.<br />Quantitative and qualitative choice-making thus lends itself as the superior<br />basis of an active intelligence.<br /><br />Human is earth's Choicemaker. His title describes his definitive and<br />typifying characteristic. Recall that his other features are but vehicles of<br />experience intent on the development of perceptive awareness and the<br />following acts of decision and choice. Note that the products of man cannot<br />define him for they are the fruit of the discerning choicemaking process and<br />include the cognition of self, the utility of experience, the development of<br />value measuring systems and language, and the acculturation of<br />civilization.<br /><br />The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits, customs, and<br />traditions, are the creative harvest of his perceptive and selective powers.<br />Creativity, the creative process, is a choice-making process. His articles,<br />constructs, and commodities, however marvelous to behold, deserve neither<br />awe nor idolatry, for man, not his contrivance, is earth's own highest<br />expression of the creative process.<br /><br />Human is earth's Choicemaker. The sublime and significant act of choosing<br />is, itself, the Archimedean fulcrum upon which man levers and redirects the<br />forces of cause and effect to an elected level of quality and diversity.<br />Further, it orients him toward a natural environmental opportunity, freedom,<br />and bestows earth's title, The Choicemaker, on his singular and plural brow.<br /><br />Human is earth's Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by nature and nature's God a<br />creature of Choice - and of Criteria. Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and<br />definitive characteristic is, and of Right ought to be, the natural<br />foundation of his environments, institutions, and respectful relations to<br />his fellow-man. Thus, he is oriented to a Freedom whose roots are in the<br />Order of the universe. selah<br /><br />That human institution which is structured on the principle, "...all men are<br />endowed by their Creator with...Liberty...," is a system with its roots in<br />the natural Order of the universe. The opponents of such a system are<br />necessarily engaged in a losing contest with nature and nature's God.<br />Biblical principles are still today the foundation under Western<br />Civilization and the American way of life. To the advent of a new season we<br />commend the present generation and the "multitudes in the valley of<br />decision."<br /><br />Let us proclaim it. Behold!<br />2009 AD: The Season of Generation-Choicemaker Joel 3:14 KJV<br /><br />"Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the<br />alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise<br />of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing." Thomas JeffersonJim Baxterhttp://www.choicemaker.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6147103.post-37812406576187386982009-10-17T07:58:23.664-07:002009-10-17T07:58:23.664-07:00MIND Over glands
The defenders of homosexuality ...MIND Over glands<br /> <br />The defenders of homosexuality continue the oxymoron<br />contradiction of attempting to use the mind to justify the <br />rule of carnal glands.<br /> <br />Thinking Americans still don't give 'a tinkers-sham' what <br />homosexuals do with their body-parts. An individual or<br />a society which is by law and tradition committed to the<br />natural human hierarchy of mind over body will not, how-<br />ever, ever sanction glandular rule over the human mind.<br /> <br />Undisciplined human desire can induce distorted perception.<br />The disturbed personality or inverted character can be<br />considered to be cognitively confused. This description is<br />confirmed by the work of English psychoanalyst Money-<br />Kyrle, who indicates that it is more accurate to recognize<br />such a condition as the result of distorted perception.<br /> <br />Neurosis, psychosis, stunting of growth, etc., are all, from<br />this perspective, cognitive diseases contaminating not only<br />perception but thinking, learning, remembering, valuing, and<br />decision- and choice-making.<br /> <br />Money-Kyrle affirms that scientific truth is not attained by a<br />trendy self-serving fashion, confession of inadequacy, <br />abdication, or collective majority-vote. There is no excuse for<br />professional ignorance willfully maintained.<br /> <br />By definition, a standard that is flexible is not a standard at all.<br />The human mind requires a standard of comparison that is<br />invariable. A criterion must be greater than the value measured<br />in order to supply value-meaning in a predictable direction of<br />survival and progression. The mind thus equipped is enabled <br />to maintain a natural dominion over the body and its appetites.<br />The very survival of the body itself, therefore, depends upon this <br />maintained intellectual authority. Romans 8:6<br /> <br />Our posterity cannot respect what it does not perceive, and it<br />cannot perceive that which has been abandoned or inverted to<br />an appetite of physical expediency by the equivocal person.<br /> <br />With confidence in the laws of human nature, we can know that <br />in the clash between carnality and intellect, the 'man of the mind'<br />will always prevail. <br /> <br />That is nature and GOD's way and intent all along.<br /> <br />"No one is smarter than their criteria." selah jfb<br /> <br />Jim Baxter<br />Teacher - 30 years<br />pointman/follower of The Lion of Judah<br />Santa Maria, CA<br /> <br />semper fidelis<br />Sgt. USMC<br />WWII & Korean War<br /> <br /> + + +Jim Baxterhttp://www.choicemaker.net/noreply@blogger.com