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Can God know your thoughts?

Ian Denness — Mon, 09 May 2022 01:42:32 +0000

Who is happy with God listening in to all their thoughts?

Those who voted ‘No God’ made it easy for themselves.

However, there were an equal number of votes for ‘Yes’, God can know our thoughts!

Some of those were Christians (Followers of Jesus).

The majority weren’t. They thought that since they had God in themselves (their pantheistic world view/belief system), then the God within knew the thoughts of the God itself. I am sure they would put that more clearly…

Some thought that this was scary stuff! What if this was true? No privacy!

A vote for ‘Yes’, I think is reality. God, being God, by definition, is ‘omiscient’, all-knowing. That means he knows all our thoughts, and all our words and actions. That’s why God will be the only one who can capably and fairly judge us…

Jesus said,

For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

Matthew 15:19 (NIV) http://www.laridian.com)

What do you think?

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Would Jesus be ‘woke’?

Ian Denness — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 11:43:05 +0000

Depends on what YOU mean by woke…

It really did on the day!

Those who thought that being woke was simply to be someone who rose up against racism and abuses of power in society usually voted “Yes!”. Jesus was certainly against racism, saying that he had come for all people, just as he sent his followers to spread the good news of his life, death and resurrection to all people, to the ends of the earth.

He also opposed the ruling religious class for their spiritual hypocrisy and the way they were unaccepting of other racial groups.

Those who voted “No!” had some idea that Jesus believed, for example, in the creation of the world by God, marriage being between a man and a woman, and immorality being wrong. They felt that the current meaning of “woke” as being progressive would not tolerate such an attitude.

What do you think?

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These days, what can’t we talk about?

Ian Denness — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 12:02:05 +0000

Freedom of public discussion?

Some said on the day that we can talk about everything! What’s the problem?

Others said we can’t, and that there are many things we can’t talk about.

I decided that the former must be people who agree with the mainstream media woke views, and so for them there really isn’t a problem. The latter don’t, and so they do have a problem!

What we say or don’t say has consequences. Nevertheless, public discussion of important issues is necessary for seeking wise ways ahead for issues in society.

Even beyond this are the words of Jesus regarding all of what we say…

But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.

Matthew 12:36 (NIV) (http://www.laridian.com)

What do you think?

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