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3/24/15 11:37 AM |
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Pleas forgive the crosspost, even if it is only in part. But as I was posting on the Google Article, I realized a good part of what I wrote applies here. So, here it is:We are now in a time where 40% of the population spends 80% of their time with their face in their phone. At work, on dates, at sporting events, at church. Every place, and every social construct had been affected. People in their 40s, and 50s are approaching the maturity level of what was a 14, or 15 yr old 40 yrs ago. As they play games, text, twit, and Facebook all day long, people have lost the ability to think for themselves, interact with their physical environment, and be responsible. Irresponsible marketing is largely to blame, as they purposely seek to get us addicted to the newest gadget. There is a place for much technology, but we have gone way beyond that. Of course social engineers never waste an opportunity to capitalize. |
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3/24/15 11:22 AM |
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If I remember right, The premise of A "Brave New World" was that people would be so entertained (by design) that they would not know that all of their rights were being taken away. We are now in a time where 40% of the population spends 80% of their time with their face in their phone. At work, on dates, at sporting events, at church. Every place, and every social construct had been affected. People in their 40s, and 50s are approaching the maturity level of what was a 14, or 15 yr old 40 yrs ago. As they play games, text, twit, and facebook all day long, people have lost the ability to think for themselves, interact with their physical environment, and be responsible. Irresponsible marketing is largely to blame, as they purposely seek to get us addicted to the newest gadget. There is a place for much technology, but we have gone way beyond that. Of course social engineers never waste an opportunity to capitalize. |
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10/1/11 11:38 PM |
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www wrote: By leaves "the church" do you mean the people of God or a building? You really Have swollowed the whole Emergent Error. I was going to ask why you keep asking questions when It's obvious you don't want answers. But it's obvious. You are being dishonest by asking. People reply, but you just ask questions of their replies. You are under the impression that your questions are irrefutible statement of fact. The way you reply to people's statement evedence that you cannot follow closley reasoned arguments (or even compound complex statement for that matter), and that your responses are based upon the Emotional Ferver you feel at the moment, rather than reason, or scripture. I'm afraid you will never, in this life, find out how totaly wrong you are. You have been given more than the first and second admonition, by people who have a level of spiritual maturity you don't. Yet you arrogantly question anyone who doesn't follow your emergent view. You seem to believe that anyone that is old and doesn't go chasing after the latest religious fad. Bottom line. There are only two approaches to church: Give God what He has required in His word, or give people what they want. I will not reply to any more of you argumentative questions. |
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9/15/11 10:12 AM |
Joe the Protestant | | 2525 | | | |
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OHM wrote: does it really matter if we call them real human beings, or, rather, did Moses include them so that, instead, they would teach us important biblical concepts? Is our salvation predicated on Adam's and Eve's bones literally being buried somewhere or on Christ alone through faith by grace alone? If the First Couple were vital for faith, why are Adam & Eve omitted from every creed? Very simple. If the First Adam was allegorical, and the fall fiction, then the second Adam (Christ)and his death would either be allegorical and/or unecessary. The need for the Atonement is predicated on the fact that a real hisorical person, who was the first man, and all of us proceeding from him, and partaking of his fallen nature, were in need of one perfect sustitute. As to why Adam was not mentioned in any confession of faith; if a confession were to mention everything, it would be the size of the Bible itself. Also, confessions are a guide, and not infallible revelations from God. |
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8/23/11 11:15 PM |
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Christian Atheist wrote: Once again the Dispensationalism of the new world order colonialist take over another sovereign country and American's think that it is a good thing. Even a wild donkey's colt has more common sense. I didn't realize the Muslim Brotherhood were Dispensational Christian Colonialist. May the Emergent God, as we feel him to be, at the moment of our ongoing, ever morphing conversation, deliver us. |
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8/14/11 8:04 AM |
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Bibliophile wrote: Was in the PCA prior to converting into the Roman Catholic Church. They (and every other conservative Presbyterian denomination I know) recite the Gospel Summary (Nicene Creed) regularly and have never removed nor quibbled at all with its baptismal phrase. Still up to your obsession of turning these threads into pro catholic threads eh? After your Apostacy into catholicism you should have gone to a catholic webite, and quit involving people in turning every article into debates over catholisism. |
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8/12/11 10:43 AM |
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Bibliophile wrote: Please help me understand: Please be honest. You don't really want an answer. You just want to defend your position. If you spent half as much time listening to the sermons on this; Protestant, Reformed, conservative, Fundamentalist website, you would not only have your answers, you would not have time to fill up all these threads with pro catholic arguments. [that was 2] |
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8/10/11 5:10 PM |
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fromold wrote: You sure??? "The first information about the heliocentric views of Nicolaus Copernicus were circulated in manuscript. Although only in manuscript, Copernicus' ideas were well known among astronomers and others. His ideas contradicted the then-prevailing understanding of the Bible. In the King James Bible Chronicles 16:30 state that "the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved." Psalm 104:5 says, "[the Lord] Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever." Ecclesiastes 1:5 states that "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose."" (Wiki) Read the Whole comment I wrote my myopic friend. Your selective editing is very close to misrepresentation. |
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8/10/11 11:18 AM |
Joe the Protestant | | 2525 | | | |
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Book of Science wrote: The Book of Scripture reads as follows: 1 Chronicles 16:30 tremble before him, all earth; yea, the world stands firm, never to be moved. Psalms 93:1 The Lord reigns; he is robbed in majesty; the lord is robbed, he is girded with strength. Yea, the world is established; it shall never be moved. Psalms 96:10 Say among the nations, "The Lord reigns! Yea, the world is established, it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity." Before Galileo's 16th Century scientific expertise, how would you have interpreted these verses? Geocentrically? Heliocentrically? Relatively? Most would have interpreted them in a literal sense. If so, would that have made you non-Christian? Wow! You had best stay with your so called science and not attempt Hermenutics. You obviously don't know what you are doing in that area. None of those scriptues say the earth is the center. Not to mention the most basic element of sound interpretaion, have for 2,000 plus yrs. recognized when poetic language is being used and when literal language is being used. You believe the T.V weather don't you. The weather man said Sun Rise would be at such a time. Yet we know the sum does not rise, the Earth spins. It's the language of Phenomena. |
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