Archive for May, 2011
Pass the Salt!
Ye are the salt of the Earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Matthew 5:13
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Luke 14:34-35
PLEASE PASS THE SALT
Salt is a common ingredient found in every kitchen, and it has been reported that there are 14,000 different uses for salt. In the early Bible days there were sacrifices, and most sacrifices required meat. Almost every sacrifice was accompanied by salt. Jesus said in Mark 9:49, “For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.” With no refrigeration in those days, it was necessary to use salt to preserve meat and keep it from spoiling so quickly.
Salt was also used as a token of a covenant. If you and I made a covenant, we would have a salt covenant. Salt was a very important item in the days of Jesus. Salt mainly comes from our oceans. Scientists say if all the oceans in the world were to dry up, there would be 23 quadrillion cubic feet of salt piled up. According to Windows to the Universe, ocean water is about 3.5% salt. That means that if the oceans dried up completely, enough salt would be left behind to build a 180-mile-tall, one-mile-thick wall around the equator. About 90 percent of that salt would be sodium chloride, or ordinary table salt. It is also a medical fact that there can be no life on earth without salt. Salt is just as vital today as it was during the days when Jesus was on Earth.
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An Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living
It was the philosopher Socrates that said that an unexamined life is not worth living. There are many parallels that can be drawn from that philosophical tidbit as well as others. You see, philosophy can often be used to validate Christian or religious principals.
Let’s take what Jesus said about seeing the mote in your brothers eye while having a beam in your own. Which is to say that you should not try to correct others without first having looked at yourself. There were many philosophers, even as far back as such as Confucius, who believed that one must work to change and improve himself before he could be effective in bringing about positive change in others. This would not just be a philosophical outlook on things but an example of the realities of life.
If you were to examine your own life, on a regular basis, to see where you could improve yourself as an individual, and continuously worked at it, you would be the type of person who others would admire and possibly be inspired by. You would also have more credibility.
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The Secret on Ararat
Once again, Tim LaHaye and Bob Phillips have teamed up, this time bringing us an adventure centered around locating Noah’s ark. Michael Murphy teams up with a skilled and diverse group and sets out on an expedition up this great mountain – after, of course, the appropriate background research.
The Babylon Rising series are engaging and intriguing, describing some fantastic possibilities. The action is non-stop, and those secrets are, for the most part, well written. I again take umbrage with the initial mixed up sequencing, but otherwise the scenes are well crafted. As with the last book, I resent (and am bored by) being lectured to, but at least the authors are consistent.
I really enjoyed the way Noah’s ark was linked to the New Testament prophecy made by Christ, and how that worked itself into the story to make this one of warning. I think that LaHaye has always been successful at subtle missionary work, along with a few passages of blatant conversion aimed towards unbelievers in the book. The subtle works the best, I think, because it digs deep into the readers mind without their even being aware of it.
