So Muhammad, who believed Christianity was evil and false, is just as true as Jesus?

It is strange. Our media is personality obsessed.

Please pray for an end to political violence in this country and the world. Please pray that our leaders and fellow citizens would be humbled by our suffering savior to abandon weapons and embrace the cross.

#tec #peace #politics

If political violence is viewed as a valid tool we can use, then we aren't a democracy, or even a civilized country. Those around Christ wanted him to be a conqueror, to bring justice through force as a "martial Messiah," but he offered them something better: salvation through love and restoration.

My prediction is that he'll go further right. They always do.

I think it's sad how people's vocabularies are shrinking and getting more vulgar and simplistic.

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I'm with you. I've never understood the world and celebrities. I don't listen to her.

In other words, we (and perhaps our siblings on other planets) occupy a place in the universe different from that of all other non-ensouled life.

Everything in the universe is God's creation, I simply think humans/ensouled beings are capable of a direct connection with God that other things aren't. You could say everything was "saved" by Christ, but being saved for humans means so much more than it does for a pebble or amoeba.

I'm not sure I buy the idea that Christ has to share exactly in the genetic nature of the ones he is saving. It sort of depends on your atonement theory though. I tend to think of the resurrection as applying to the cosmos and not only to Homo Sapiens.

I'm actually writing a story about this at the moment, and my theory is that Christ's single death is sufficient for all creation. Earth would be, in a way, like the Israel of the universe. Somehow the covenant could be expanded to other species as we met them.

I think this is where “human” as a theological concept just means “embodied person” rather than “biological Homo sapiens” (a concept somewhat foreign to the biblical world anyway), which also makes the possibility of aliens easier too.