notes from lisa...

I came across the title of an article, today: Why do Radical Muslims Hate Us? I didn't bother to read it, because I recognized immediately that it is the wrong question to ask. The question to ask would be why are we, as Americans the target of hatred and terror. I mean, our neighbors directly to the North (Canada) and the South (Mexico) aren't. Some of our European allies are, though. Some of the largest "powers" in the world, monetarily and otherwise--like China, Japan, and Switzerland aren't targets, but America is a bullseye. Why do you think that is? The issue isn't the Muslim (even the radicalism); the issue is "US". If we figure out what's wrong with us, we can figure out why there are such radicals and extremists--and by the way, they just happen to be Muslim, and come from the Middle East. If Native Americans or Africans of the 17th-19th century lived today, they might be the extremists and radicals that we would be talking about, inst...

   How men determine and label faith today is vastly different from the biblical model. We deem faithless those that Jesus esteems and values dearly; those that He declares are unfit for the Kingdom of God, we call faith giants.    Today, we view poor people, in the world of Christendom, as weak in the faith; assuming that if poor people would only exercise their faith and raise it to our desired level, they would become prosperous, naturally-speaking. Of course, immediately that logic raises a lot of problems. First, for that to be true, righteousness would have to be equated with prosperity and unrighteousness with poverty. What then do we do with all of the wicked who hold great wealth, yet despise God and His people; and conversely, what do we do with all of the saints willing to be martyred for the cause of Christ, who give up everything rather than denounce Him (there are many around the globe)? Secondly, how do we reconcile such scripture passages as: ...