Waiting for Godot to Leave

There was a potential murder mystery client that I was hoping to land.  He had worked with every other murder mystery company around, and at that time there were three or four others in St. Louis.  They all told me the same thing, "The man is impossible to work for."  None of them lasted more than a few years performing at his venue. "But I can do it!" I said to myself.  "They can't work with him, but I can work with him!  After all, I'm more intelligent and sensitive than they are.  I do well with difficult people.  I'll win him over, get him to like me.  I can succeed where all others failed!" We lasted three months.  He was a monster.

Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed  (ἐπίστευσαν) in his name. But Jesus did not trust (ἐπίστευεν)   himself unto them because he knew all men  ( John 2:23-24 ) The same root word in Greek is used to signify both the faith professed by the people in Jerusalem who are impressed by the signs performed by Jesus, and the thing Jesus will not offer in return. They offer some sort of faith in His name, but He has no faith in this faith, as it were. John explains why in the next verse ... and [Jesus] didn't need anyone to tell him about human nature. He knew what people were really like. ( John 2:25 ) Knowing their hearts  - even without being told - Jesus knows that their faith is not such that He could entrust Himself to them.  Indeed, neither could Jesus count on the faith of His closest disciples, who all abandoned Him in His hour of need. So He keeps a wise reserve. Jes...

Many of you are still mad at me that I make no quarter for Holocaust deniers, thinking that what these folks need is just good plain patience and reasoning, someone sitting down and holding their hands and explaining to them calmly and serenely that the Holocaust happened, and that it was not the fault of the Jews. Maybe this will help explain my position.  It's from an email I sent to a Facebook friend. There is at the root of antisemistism something that's not able to be educated, in my opinion. When a Facebook commenter says, "The Jews elected every president since WWII and the Jews assassinated JFK," there's nothing to say to "educate" that man except addressing the demon he's dancing with, "Get thee behind me, Satan."  Take yesterday. I'm on the fence on gun control. But three anti-gun-control commenters said the following: 1. Gun control is a violation of the Tenth Commandment, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor...

So a group called Patriotic Christian Quotes posts this chart on Facebook ...     And my comment on their Facebook post was this ... The Scriptures have nothing to do with science, and this chart stretches the point. It is very dangerous for Christians to think that the Bible teaches the truth about physics or biology. It teaches a far deeper truth, and the more we confuse the iss ue, the harder it is for us to show that Faith and Reason go together. Take the first item on the chart, for example. Isaiah 40:22 in no way asserts that the earth is a sphere. The ancient Hebrews believed the earth was a round disk floating on water, with the sky pitched as a tent about it. They were wrong about geology, but right about God. This chart is well intentioned but very wrong headed.   And, naturally, I was more or less excoriated by others commenting after me.  One lady said, Science now is proving that what the bible says is true, and always has been....