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Re: http://thereisatruth.tumblr.com/post/849797328

jarrodpyper — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:31:14 -0000

back to the unjust judge. i don't understand how it can make sense that you interpret the passage as Jesus saying "God is just like this unjust judge." He paints a picture of a man who doesn't care about other people, and who grants justice to a widow only because he's tired of hearing her come and beg for it every day. and then Jesus says, "God is just like that judge." ??? it doesn't fit in with all the other things we know about God. God loves our prayers, they're like fine incense to him, he doesn't answer them only because he's tired of hearing them asked.

imagine if while Jesus is telling this to his disciples, standing nearby is a local judge who fits this exact description. could you see Jesus stopping at the end of the story and pointing to that judge saying "that guy right there, God is like that man when it comes to our prayer?" God is nothing like that unjust judge, he'll give them justice quickly. this verse is similar to Matthew 7:9-11 where Jesus says "If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!" God's attitude and the unjust judge's attitude are opposites and i don't understand how you can say that the one is like the other.

you're example of interpreting the unjust judge to be about health care is ridiculous, mainly because it takes the entire passage completely out of context.

am i right in saying that you do believe that we are made in three parts, body, soul and spirit? I agree with you that we were created good in the beginning, the very beginning. ever since eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, the human race has been infused with the sin nature. every person born of adam is this way. it's why you don't need to teach kids to lie or to steal, it just starts happening. it's part of our nature and with discipline we are trained not to follow our nature and urges but to use our mind (soul) instead. that's why it's necessary to be born again so you are no longer born of the line of adam but right from God, just like adam originally was. as Christians, our spirit is already redeemed. Jesus is our redeemer. the word "redeem" is defined as having to do with paying a price. our flesh is only meant to live and interact with this world on earth. our soul is what needs to be renewed, like what paul talks about in romans (the renewing of our minds).

about being a Christian. i agree that one person cannot be more saved than any other person. I do believe that one can be more of a Christian though, in the sense of being a follower of Christ. reading in the Bible, i think it's obvious which people had better/closer walks with God than others, and that's because of their own choices in following Him. i think we can tell that Peter had a better walk than Ananias or Sapphira did. Peter was a more mature Christian (follower of Christ) but no more or less saved by the blood of Jesus. Assuming that Ananias and Sapphira had already accepted Jesus as Lord and savior, I have no doubt that they went to heaven when they died just like Peter did when he died, though Peter had much more of a reward once he got there.

You can tell a prophet (or Christian or church) by their fruit:

John 14:12 "I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father."

Mark 16:17: And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."

This is what was promised for those who have faith, for those who believe. Jesus didn't lie when he said this, and he didn't say "they'll do this for a while and that will be it." This is a promise for any Christian. The difference is the belief, the faith. I can accomplish any of the miracles that paul or peter or john did, but only through faith and the Holy Spirit in me. the difference between them and me is the faith. Jesus said we can move mountains if we have faith like a mustard seed ("as small as" a mustard seed is an incorrect interpretation), which means our faith grows just like that tiny seed becomes a huge plant.

I left JCC because I don't see the fulfillment of God's promises in that church. more accurately, i saw them someplace else. the kinds of promises that make great changes in people, towns, cities and beyond. if God promised it and it's not happening, the fault lies with us and not Him. I'm following a teacher named Gary Carpenter, as well as his pastor Dave Roberson, as well as another teacher named Alan Taylor, who are all from the Family Prayer Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, because they are obtaining those promises from God. People regularly get healed by them (God through them). They receive instruction from the Holy Spirit, like the Bible says is intended (John 14:26, John 16:5-15, 1 John 2:26-27). I'm following them as they're following God. They're very obviously farther along in their walk than I am, and they're marking the path as they go with their teaching.

Re: http://thereisatruth.tumblr.com/post/667458880

jarrodpyper — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:22:39 -0000

I think I was mistaken. I definitely do not mean that we are to pray *to* our soul. We are to pray for the *benefit of* our soul. We pray to God and God only. As we pray and "remind" God of his promises to us, we are reinforcing his truth in ourselves. When you adopt the spirit/soul/flesh view of reality, it causes other things to make more sense as well. Take James 1:6-8 for example:
"But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double minded man, unstable in all he does."
The man is double minded because on one hand, his reborn spirit from God knows the father will provide for him, but the mans soul does not believe it. With those two parts of him opposed he is unstable and unable to receive the gifts from God.

I disagree with you on my point about God giving us a "waiting period" as far as in the context of my example. He will not require you to wait for food when waiting for it will cause you to die. God has promised that he will supply our needs, and that anything we ask for in Jesus' name, he will give to us. Asking for something in Jesus' name implies that we are acting on Jesus' behalf, so as long as we are proceeding in the will of the Father, he will supply us with what we need (whether the need is food or money or a car or anything).

I did not come up with all of this on my own. Mostly I'm learning from a man who is-- more obviously than any other person i've ever come across-- following God. He knows how to hear the Holy Spirit and be instructed by him. His testimony is proof enough. The guy's name is Gary Carpenter, his website is garycarpenter.org. he is a teacher. his pastor is Dave Roberson, who also hears God. I've been listening to their sermons and teachings for a few months now, at a rate of sometimes around 10 messages a week. There's a lot of stuff you'll never get out of reading the Bible (and living life) unless you have the Holy Spirit as your counselor, as he was intended to be.

I truly believe that there's so much of God's plan that we've lost over the years because we've fallen out of contact with our guide. Jesus said it was better that he left so he could send the Holy Spirit. The intent was for us to be able to interact with him like we could have interacted with Jesus if we were one of his disciples back in the day.

Re: http://thereisatruth.tumblr.com/post/667458880

jarrodpyper — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:10:43 -0000

I do sort of "wince" on the inside at saying that Jesus is portraying God as an unjust judge. The fact that you ask that question makes me think you have more to say about it though.

I suppose God can seem like an unjust judge, since he will forgive anyone of any sin, regardless of how "great" or small the sin and give them the same reward. but then he *is* just because the punishment for all that sin was paid for in full by Jesus on the cross.

The end of this passage is what convinces me more in favor of the unjust judge being part of ourselves. Faith, the kind that brings results, is what happens when we overcome our soul which tells us things are the way it perceives them to be, regardless of what God's truth is. We need the faith for God's hand in the situation. As Jesus was God's presence on the earth to do his works, we are the body of Christ and God works through us. God will give us the call, the information, and the power to do his plan if we can get the faith for it.

I was thinking a lot while listening to your sermon during both services sunday. I believe that there is a lot more to taming the tongue than being nice and free of strife with others. I believe that the things we say can and do have spiritual consequences to them, good or bad. In Genesis, the Holy Spirit acted on God's spoken command, not his thought. The Holy Spirit knew what God wanted while he was hovering over the waters, but didn't act until the word was given. In the same way, Jesus spoke when miracles were performed. he rebuked the wind, he rebuked the devil, he told men to get up and walk, or just simply said that their sins have been forgiven and the are healed. If we have the same Holy Spirit that was with Jesus, we should consider carefully the things we speak.

but back to the unjust judge. God is not slow(in the sense of speed and time). time is irrelevant to him, he is outside of it. if you are starving and poor, with no way to get food on your own and you cry out to God, "Father, you have said you care for me more than the birds of the air, who do not reap or sow. You feed them, so please Lord, feed me." God does not need you to ask him a few more times or to go through a waiting period before he can get food to you. I know the parable talks about justice, but the injustice in this situation is that a son or daughter of the most high God, an heir, is starving and poor. God did not intend for us to live in lack, that's not the way things started out in Genesis. the adversary is always satan and his lies. trying to tell us that because we're poor or hungry, that stuff about us being heirs must mean something other than what it says.

well that was a lot.

Re: http://pap3rtig3r.tumblr.com/post/667462596

jarrodpyper — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:20:07 -0000

i just never got around to enabling comments on it. should be easy to figure out now.

Re: Lord willing…

jarrodpyper — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:08:40 -0000

thanks! my friend, I can answer your question. it has everything to do with the Holy Spirit. we should talk sometime, or wait until i get around to writing something about it (which will probably be a while). also, that guy i told you about, Gary Carpenter, is also an engineer by training. fun fact.

Re: A Paper Tiger: New business card design i put together. mainly...

jarrodpyper — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:25:49 -0000

well hey, if you're bored go right ahead. i don't mind.

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jarrodpyper — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:23:17 -0000

i love the interview with the game counselor.
he's so knowledgeable!
and the "fun club" president's tie is awesome.

Re: A Paper Tiger: this banner advertisement got a little too...

jarrodpyper — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:51:48 -0000

They've been skimming at least location information for a long while now.
I think they track where your IP is from and customize ads for things in your area.
It just makes me laugh.

Re: a great mystery

jarrodpyper — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:47:18 -0000

woo only 13 days, sweet bro!
i've been taking my sweet time eating the kettle pops that you sent. i've got about half the bag left. so good.

Re: a great mystery

jarrodpyper — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:46:24 -0000

i do have email thru digsby. i still have the compulsion to read or dispose of any email once i know i have it.
and the problem isn't having to visit various blogs, the problem is the fact that i stop what i'm doing at random times to see if anybody has updated. and yes, tumblr does have a feed.

i have good self control, i just need to apply it to my computer/internet usage.
meh. thanks.

Re: A Paper Tiger: It doesn’t even matter what day it is.

jarrodpyper — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:49:45 -0000

ahaha, thanks.

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jarrodpyper — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:38:14 -0000

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jarrodpyper — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:28:19 -0000

i think that sounds like a good deal

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jarrodpyper — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:27:33 -0000

amazing enough to go see?
cuz you're welcome to.