We already have one cat Rick named Kabar after the knife he got in the Marines. We had a couple others, but the coyotes got them. So, today we got two more, Snafu:

 

 

 

And Fubar:

 

 

 

Aren’t they CUTE!?

@soccerdadforlife ‘s page, he asked a few questions on his latest blog. I think they are very important questions, so I would rather answer tham in my own blog than a comment under his. You can read it on his blog here. But I copied it word for word so you wouldn’t have to. This is what it says:

 

 

Let’s assume that sin is real, all men sin, and that the punishment for sin is eternal death.  I have a series of questions related to this.

1. How are people saved, in your view?

2. Why do you think this?  (I’m asking for your evidence to support your view.)

3. What is the gospel, in your view?

4. What is your evidence to support this?

5. What is the connection between how people are saved and the gospel, in your view?

6. What is your evidence to support this?

7. What is the most important question in the New Testament?

8. How does this relate to questions 3 & 5?

Please let me know if you do not want to dialogue about your answers.

 

 

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Here are my answers:

 

1. How are people saved, in your view?

It’s interesting you should ask this, because lately I’ve been thinking a lot about “Being Chosen” vs. “Free Will”. And I have concluded that It is sort of a combination. Because God couldn’t be God and not have known the end from the beginning. So He always knew “from the foundation of the world” which ones would choose Him. And everything I know about God says He is extremely efficient. So He only calls the ones He knows will answer. Yet, because He is just, He took the sins of all on Himself when He was on the cross, so all would have that choice and their rejection of it real and true. Whosoever believes in Him…..If we confess our sins to Him….believe that He was raised from the dead, we shall be saved. 

 

 

 

2. Why do you think this?  (I’m asking for your evidence to support your view.)

 

 

What I’ve read in the Bible. There are MANY MANY verses about these things, but I will put a few of them here.

Being chosen:

Mat 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

Joh 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Eph 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

 

Free Will:

Joh 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Rom 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

 

Act 16:30 – 31 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

 

He took on the sins of the whole world:

1Jn 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

 

 

 

 

3. What is the gospel, in your view?

 

The Gospel is the good news of Jesus Christ – that we have a way to heaven.

 

 

 

 

 

4. What is your evidence to support this?

 

Again, the Bible.

 

 

 

 

 

5. What is the connection between how people are saved and the gospel, in your view?

 

Joh 20:31  But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. 

 

 

 

 

 

6. What is your evidence to support this?

 

The Bible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. What is the most important question in the New Testament?

 

Act 16:30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. How does this relate to questions 3 & 5?

 

I think I already answered that. But, 

Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

 

 

 

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Feel free to write your own blog with your own answers. I learned a long time ago that there is this huge debate going on between predestination and free will. So I predict that there might arise just such an argument in the comments. But, as I showed here, in order to believe only one or the other means to omit certain verses to the contrary. I can’t do that. 

 

 

Well, I saw where @Megabyyte did one, and I have been considering doing one myself ever since. I did one a LONG time ago. So maybe there are new people who would like to know something about me. And since I took down all my blocks, maybe some haters will attempt a really REALLY tough question for me. But here’s the deal, I won’t make a public video of myself without getting all gussied up and trying to look my very best. And if I have to do all that it has to be worth it. So, if nobody asks me anything much it WON’T be worth it. Ask me anything, I’ll do my best to answer. If I get enough response, that is. 

I was a preteen. It was sometime in the mid 80′s. A neighbor (An arch enemy) about five houses down had FINALLY moved away. And a card arrived on our doorstep telling us to welcome Chuck, Becky and Samantha. A Samantha! Nobody else EVER had that name back then! 

We always cut through that yard to get to John’s house. (John was my brother’s best friend. He had a younger brother my age, Daniel. We were like brothers and sister.) So, the lady was out there and we stopped to say hello. She was like a living Barbie doll. I reckon she was in her early 20s, and I asked her if she was Samantha. She said no, her daughter was. (Her daughter was just a little baby, and SO CUTE!) And how did I know that? Turns out the mortgage company left the cards. 

I guess she was trying to hold onto her youth. She began to sort of hang out with us, when she was not at work. She would take us to the mall. And not the one in Winston Salem. The Four Seasons mall that was like an hour and a half away. It was a whole lot bigger. And in those days, all the cool kids hung out at the mall.

She would buy her baby daughter Samantha gummy bears, and we would window shop for hours. It was fun hanging out with her. 

Then she got a new car. I don’t remember what kind, but she was really proud of it. By this time, she had gotten pregnant and was really showing. This guy named Chad had joined our gang, and i had a sort of a crush on him. She had taken all of us to the mall, and it was on the way home. In her new car. I was riding shot gun, and Chad was directly behind me. He was reaching over and tickling me, and I was laughing. And then it happened.

Bu-bump.

 

It was only about a mile and a half from home. When we got out, there was a big dent in the lower passenger side. I don’t know what she hit, but she was very angry about that. Everyone else had trotted on home, and it was just me and her. She chewed me out. 

By the time I got home, of course, I was in tears. My big brother asked me what happened, and I told him. (One of the few times he ever took up for me,) He went straight back to her house and chewed her out. A few minutes after he got back, she showed up.

I knew who was at the door. When mom called me, I said I didn’t want to come out. I sat under my window and listened to her apologize to my mother, blaming her outburst on her pregnancy. But I wouldn’t come out and talk to her. I listened as she said she hoped that we could still be friends and we were still welcome to come over to her house. 

 

I never went to visit her again after that day. Not once. And I never even really thought about that or her anymore for years. 

Today in town, a car went by and someone was reaching from the back to the front, and it reminded me of all that. I guess it’s another one of my quirks, but I have always been that way, as this story proves. If you cross a certain line with me, I am done with you forever. And I guess this is just part of my nature. But this has never changed about me. The line of what I take has, but not that factor after it has been crossed.