Comments for the harvard ichthus http://www.harvardichthus.org Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Comment on The Great Horror of Humility by Catholicsalmon http://www.harvardichthus.org/fishtank/2011/11/the-great-horror-of-humility/comment-page-1/#comment-231885 Catholicsalmon Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:20:42 +0000 http://www.harvardichthus.org/?p=6781#comment-231885 Fascinating! I know someone who is incredibly humble about their position and status in society. They work tirelessly to meet a standard of excellence that can only be motivated by an obvious belief in Christ. His dedication to doing everything to the best of his ability, no matter how insignificant it may seem , while purposefully avoiding acclamation and recognition, serves his humility well. He most certainly is not a push-over and is well respected by all who come in contact with him. Through complete servitude has he earned the loyalty, trust and support of those who work for him and with him. His Christian beliefs shape every part of him, and I think this is fuelled by his understanding of his role in society as a Christian, and the example he follows in Christ. It is actually through his humility that his strength seeps through everything that he does. Fascinating! I know someone who is incredibly humble about their position and status in society. They work tirelessly to meet a standard of excellence that can only be motivated by an obvious belief in Christ.
His dedication to doing everything to the best of his ability, no matter how insignificant it may seem , while purposefully avoiding acclamation and recognition, serves his humility well.
He most certainly is not a push-over and is well respected by all who come in contact with him. Through complete servitude has he earned the loyalty, trust and support of those who work for him and with him.
His Christian beliefs shape every part of him, and I think this is fuelled by his understanding of his role in society as a Christian, and the example he follows in Christ.
It is actually through his humility that his strength seeps through everything that he does.

]]> Comment on On Six Packs and Strength by Natalie Stevenson http://www.harvardichthus.org/fishtank/2011/11/on-six-packs-and-strength/comment-page-1/#comment-230606 Natalie Stevenson Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:08:03 +0000 http://www.harvardichthus.org/?p=6827#comment-230606 That was a very nice homage. That was a very nice homage.

]]> Comment on The Great Horror of Humility by Grant http://www.harvardichthus.org/fishtank/2011/11/the-great-horror-of-humility/comment-page-1/#comment-228668 Grant Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:26:23 +0000 http://www.harvardichthus.org/?p=6781#comment-228668 I really enjoy this study of humility. John Dickson wrote a book about this called Humilitas. A lot of what you are saying is included in the book. Have you read it? I really enjoy this study of humility. John Dickson wrote a book about this called Humilitas. A lot of what you are saying is included in the book. Have you read it?

]]> Comment on faith alone, not a faith that is alone by Theodore A. Jones http://www.harvardichthus.org/fishtank/2011/09/faith-alone-not-a-faith-that-is-alone/comment-page-1/#comment-225496 Theodore A. Jones Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:02:36 +0000 http://www.harvardichthus.org/?p=6611#comment-225496 Why is baptism in water a requirement in the process of becoming born again of God? There are many religious proposals asserting that if they are believed and followed the result is a union with God, a god or many gods, which are supposedly unseen beings of supernatural power. "No man hath seen God at any time." The main claim the Bible makes is that the god it describes as God is the only Living God. And it is only this God who has supernatural power for no other gods have any power whatsoever. "There are no other gods besides Me and you shall not have any other gods beside Me." Period. But devious sinful mankind, who is practically unalterably wicked because of being a natural descendent of Adam, has the devious idea that the Living God did not mean exactly what he said. And no matter what form God presents himself in, unseen, manifested in the flesh and even in one Word, devious wicked mankind always erroneously thinks he has the best ideas regardless of what the Living God says. There is nothing of greater contrast, absurdity and oxymoronic than this one term, YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN, to the naturally born human. Because the naturally born erroneously thinks he is a child of God, but the actual truth about him is "Ye are the children of your father the Devil" which is the curse of natural birth to both the Jew and Gentile alike. There are two things we all know from the Bible. But regardless of whether one accepts these things as being true it does not change these facts into not being true. The man, titled as the Lord Jesus Christ in the Bible, is God manifested in the flesh. The man, titled as the only Begotten Son of the Living God, has perfected the only Way any child of the Devil by natural birth can escape from that curse by his crucifixion. However the naturally born must have the faith to use, put into physical human practice, exactly what the Lord thy God says through the apostles to become redeemed from the curse of your physical natural birth. This has only produced another child of the Devil. In all of your cases there are actually four things you must have the faith to do in order to be redeemed from the curse of your natural birth. 1. Lay aside every contemporary explanation of salvation which you have read, heard from any contemporary church's pulpit. The salvation doctrines of all theologians and whomever they have taught, and whoever positively pontificates in any form that what theologians teach about the Lord's Way of salvation is not falsehood. For their doctrines of salvation are specifically designed to keep you out of God's kingdom and t 2. If you get over that hurdle, which I doubt many of you will, it is necessary to test what I teach. In other words you will have the faith to try what I teach to prove or disprove what I teach. If any of you sincerely obey my gospel one or more of the spiritual gifts listed by the apostles will be physically manifested in you proving what I teach is actually true. But the required confession must be your honest conviction or it is a lie. 3. Hurdle three. Where the rubber meets the road and what every theologian and contemporary preacher hotly contests and must contest. But if you continue to believe what they contest and pontificate there is no hope of you escaping the curse of your natural birth. None. For this is the actual key you must have the faith to hope, trust in, and in sincerity use to escape from the consequence of your natural birth. For there is absolutely no other way of escaping the curse of natural birth and the curse of the law. For by Jesus' crucifixion a law has been added to the law. And you must have the faith to obey this law exactly as you have been commanded by the Lord thy God given through the apostles. Or willfully disobey a law of God which is not forgivable. Which is what Jesus meant by saying “they are now being forced in” by the law added to the law by and after his crucifixion? 4. Hurdle four. Recanting your former ways of salvation and be baptized into the new testimony about Jesus' bloodshed. For without the shedding of His blood there is no remission of sin's penalty for any of the naturally born. But understand me clearly. The crucifixion of Jesus' has only perfected the Way you might escape from the curse of your natural birth and the law's penalty. But to escape both you must by faith, sight unseen, obey an actual law that has been entered into the law as an act of righteousness. That if correctly obeyed by any naturally born individual God will declare him righteous as he promises. "It is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous."Rom. 2:13 The only Way this law, the Law of the Spirit, can be obeyed is by making this confession directly to God sincerely meaning it in your heart and be baptized in water to receive the promise. "Oh God I am so truly and sincerely sorry your only begotten son Jesus' lost his life by bloodshed when he was crucified." There is no other way to escape. "I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that confession which I have committed unto Him against that day. Theodore A. Jones Why is baptism in water a requirement in the process of becoming born again of God?
There are many religious proposals asserting that if they are believed and followed the result is a union with God, a god or many gods, which are supposedly unseen beings of supernatural power.
“No man hath seen God at any time.” The main claim the Bible makes is that the god it describes as God is the only Living God. And it is only this God who has supernatural power for no other gods have any power whatsoever. “There are no other gods besides Me and you shall not have any other gods beside Me.” Period. But devious sinful mankind, who is practically unalterably wicked because of being a natural descendent of Adam, has the devious idea that the Living God did not mean exactly what he said. And no matter what form God presents himself in, unseen, manifested in the flesh and even in one Word, devious wicked mankind always erroneously thinks he has the best ideas regardless of what the Living God says. There is nothing of greater contrast, absurdity and oxymoronic than this one term, YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN, to the naturally born human. Because the naturally born erroneously thinks he is a child of God, but the actual truth about him is “Ye are the children of your father the Devil” which is the curse of natural birth to both the Jew and Gentile alike.
There are two things we all know from the Bible. But regardless of whether one accepts these things as being true it does not change these facts into not being true. The man, titled as the Lord Jesus Christ in the Bible, is God manifested in the flesh. The man, titled as the only Begotten Son of the Living God, has perfected the only Way any child of the Devil by natural birth can escape from that curse by his crucifixion. However the naturally born must have the faith to use, put into physical human practice, exactly what the Lord thy God says through the apostles to become redeemed from the curse of your physical natural birth. This has only produced another child of the Devil.
In all of your cases there are actually four things you must have the faith to do in order to be redeemed from the curse of your natural birth.
1. Lay aside every contemporary explanation of salvation which you have read, heard from any contemporary church’s pulpit. The salvation doctrines of all theologians and whomever they have taught, and whoever positively pontificates in any form that what theologians teach about the Lord’s Way of salvation is not falsehood. For their doctrines of salvation are specifically designed to keep you out of God’s kingdom and t
2. If you get over that hurdle, which I doubt many of you will, it is necessary to test what I teach. In other words you will have the faith to try what I teach to prove or disprove what I teach. If any of you sincerely obey my gospel one or more of the spiritual gifts listed by the apostles will be physically manifested in you proving what I teach is actually true. But the required confession must be your honest conviction or it is a lie.
3. Hurdle three. Where the rubber meets the road and what every theologian and contemporary preacher hotly contests and must contest. But if you continue to believe what they contest and pontificate there is no hope of you escaping the curse of your natural birth. None. For this is the actual key you must have the faith to hope, trust in, and in sincerity use to escape from the consequence of your natural birth. For there is absolutely no other way of escaping the curse of natural birth and the curse of the law. For by Jesus’ crucifixion a law has been added to the law. And you must have the faith to obey this law exactly as you have been commanded by the Lord thy God given through the apostles. Or willfully disobey a law of God which is not forgivable. Which is what Jesus meant by saying “they are now being forced in” by the law added to the law by and after his crucifixion?
4. Hurdle four. Recanting your former ways of salvation and be baptized into the new testimony about Jesus’ bloodshed. For without the shedding of His blood there is no remission of sin’s penalty for any of the naturally born. But understand me clearly. The crucifixion of Jesus’ has only perfected the Way you might escape from the curse of your natural birth and the law’s penalty. But to escape both you must by faith, sight unseen, obey an actual law that has been entered into the law as an act of righteousness. That if correctly obeyed by any naturally born individual God will declare him righteous as he promises.
“It is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.”Rom. 2:13
The only Way this law, the Law of the Spirit, can be obeyed is by making this confession directly to God sincerely meaning it in your heart and be baptized in water to receive the promise.
“Oh God I am so truly and sincerely sorry your only begotten son Jesus’ lost his life by bloodshed when he was crucified.” There is no other way to escape.
“I am not ashamed: for
I know whom I have
believed, and am
persuaded that he is
able to keep
that confession
which I have committed
unto Him against
that day.
Theodore A. Jones

]]> Comment on What I’ve learned from reading Wodehouse by MARINOLE http://www.harvardichthus.org/fishtank/2009/07/what-ive-learned-from-reading-wodehouse/comment-page-1/#comment-215337 MARINOLE Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:00:02 +0000 http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~ichthus/wordpress/?p=902#comment-215337 I LOVE WODEHOUSE TO THE POINT THAT I HAD A BELOVED DOG NAMED PLUM. THINK WODEHOUSE WOULD HAVE ENJOYED THAT!! I LOVE WODEHOUSE TO THE POINT THAT I HAD A BELOVED DOG NAMED PLUM. THINK WODEHOUSE WOULD HAVE ENJOYED THAT!!

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]]> Comment on Science of the Gaps by Joseph Hardy http://www.harvardichthus.org/fishtank/2009/07/science-of-the-gaps/comment-page-1/#comment-209093 Joseph Hardy Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:44:45 +0000 http://www.harvardichthus.org/?p=1077#comment-209093 Here is a snippet on the science-of-the-gaps hypothesis which is a video excerpt from a larger work entitled "Does God Exist?" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS7Rsuoartg): Science-of-the-Gaps Hypothesis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_xT3mPoQyY Here is a snippet on the science-of-the-gaps hypothesis which is a video excerpt from a larger work entitled “Does God Exist?” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS7Rsuoartg):

Science-of-the-Gaps Hypothesis
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]]> Comment on The Function of Divine Election: Part 1 by Jack Oakes http://www.harvardichthus.org/fishtank/2009/11/the-function-of-divine-election/comment-page-1/#comment-204550 Jack Oakes Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:15:35 +0000 http://www.harvardichthus.org/?p=2065#comment-204550 Joseph, The fairness of election is always the sticking point for people. They say that because God chose some to election that he chose the rest to go to hell. God wills that none perish and Jesus died for the sins of all according to the bible (not Calvinists). Jesus made provision for and God would be ecstatic if someone not chosen were able to overcome and obtain saving faith. The end of 2nd Timothy says to "instruct those who oppose themselves, peradventure God gives them repentance so that they can recover THEMSELVES, out of the snare of the devil". Of course they catch 22 is that unless one was chosen, it is virtually impossible to overcome. I would use this argument toward Christians not believing in divine election, but most are so hostile to the idea that conversation is virtually impossible. It is not a doctrine for "babes in Christ" and the gospel should be heralded long before springing this upon someone or better yet, leaving it to the Holy Spirit to reveal it as he has done with me. God Bless !!! Joseph,
The fairness of election is always the sticking point for people. They say that because God chose some to election that he chose the rest to go to hell.
God wills that none perish and Jesus died for the sins of all according to the bible (not Calvinists). Jesus made provision for and God would be ecstatic if someone not chosen were able to overcome and obtain saving faith. The end of 2nd Timothy says to “instruct those who oppose themselves, peradventure God gives them repentance so that they can recover THEMSELVES, out of the snare of the devil”.
Of course they catch 22 is that unless one was chosen, it is virtually impossible to overcome.
I would use this argument toward Christians not believing in divine election, but most are so hostile to the idea that conversation is virtually impossible.
It is not a doctrine for “babes in Christ” and the gospel should be heralded long before springing this upon someone or better yet, leaving it to the Holy Spirit to reveal it as he has done with me. God Bless !!!

]]> Comment on Matteo Ricci and the Adaptability of Christianity by David http://www.harvardichthus.org/fishtank/2011/03/matteo-ricci-and-the-adaptability-of-christianity/comment-page-1/#comment-200887 David Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:25:58 +0000 http://www.harvardichthus.org/?p=6148#comment-200887 There are many house churchs in China,Praise the Lord! let us pray China's people will see God There are many house churchs in China,Praise the Lord! let us pray China’s people will see God

]]> Comment on Women’s Superiority and Submission by Jihye http://www.harvardichthus.org/fishtank/2011/10/women%e2%80%99s-superiority-and-submission/comment-page-1/#comment-190458 Jihye Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:49:06 +0000 http://www.harvardichthus.org/?p=6740#comment-190458 Hahahahaha. How did I miss this? ;) Hahahahaha. How did I miss this? ;)

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