How has this question arisen? 

Apple released a new emoji earlier this year for a pregnant man. As well, the leader of the opposition in Australia stated that he wasn’t ‘woke’, and that men couldn’t be pregnant, even though the official and celebrated position of his political party, Labor, is that men can be pregnant.

In 2014, according to Medicare, 54 men claimed rebates for medical services related to their pregnancy. 

Then I understood the context. Those  FTM/Female-to-male transgender persons, who still had a uterus, could become pregnant, and therefore declare that in the census. 

I believe that God cares for each one of us at the very core of our being, even deeper than our sexuality, at the level of our soul.  

Jesus did also. That’s why, at great personal cost, he gave his very life for us, to bring us to God.  

At the same time, he also made statements about his creation. This is one that may challenge some of us. 

“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female…'”

Matthew 19:4 (NIV)(http://www.laridian.com)

What do you think?

A universal law maker? 

If we accept there is universal right and wrong, good and evil, we then have to acknowledge there must be a moral law maker, such as God.

However, if we consider ourselves to be just an insignificant part of a vast, random and purposeless universe, why should we feel strongly about what is right and wrong? To be consistent, Secular Atheism should hold this view. 

Personally, I believe there is a universal right and wrong. I base that on the Bible, the book passed down accurately through the centuries. That topic deserves a full Post for those who may be sceptical of my statement!

The Ten Commandments are a good start to universal right and wrong. I read each as “You will be happy if  you …”

The “Golden Rule” of Jesus works well too.

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 7:12 (NIV) (http://www.laridian.com)

Where do you get your right and wrong from?

When are you supposed to make a bucket list? 

I guess you can never be too young!

To know God better is on my bucket list. That’s the God of the Bible. It is right at the top, followed by less special activities like travel or other priorities.

With that goes not only knowing him better, but also obeying better. 

Jesus said:

“If you love me, keep my commands.

John 14:15 (NIV) (http://www.laridian.com)

What about yourself?

Do you think Christianity is deficient?

What I call ‘Cultural Christianity’ is definitely deficient, in my opinion.

That is what a lot of people think Christianity is, but it is only a name-only version, and a poor one at that. You could call it ‘Churchianity’ with popes, priests and platitudes. Going to church now and again, a thin veneer of religiosity, having a great time at Christmas and Easter, and a bunch of religious formulas, rules and traditions.

The Bible itself is usually secondary in this whole generalisation. Most of the population of our western societies have followed that over the centuries, and this has led to much of the confusion, hypocrisy and rejection of it over the last decades.