Even higher than Christ the Redeemer.
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Very happy to hear it.
Uh, I forgot to mention that this body of Christ reformation/revival that I’ve been writing about….it’s global. Yeah.
…at one time, they had a MASSIVE porn shop at the foot of the Christ The Redeemer statue.
Building idols makes neither you nor the ground holy, sometimes it just makes you more of a hypocrite.
Especially considering this;
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.”
Exodus 20:4
…better you should worship the real thing and use the stone for a house of worship. God doesn’t always appreciate bad likenesses, as they once found out in Monroe, Ohio one stormy night…
https://youtu.be/6Mf2u9VWAhM
Did they depict this statue as being a “Black Woman” (for the Woke Crowd)?
This one will have just one arm raised, pointing toward the U.S.
Pogo
APRIL 14, 2021 AT 7:01 AM
“Did they depict this statue as being a “Black Woman” (for the Woke Crowd)?”
…I once watched a movie…well, I’ve watched it a FEW times, it’s really helped me…called The Shack about a father who’s daughter is abducted, presumably raped, and murdered, and how he turns his back on God and drifts from the rest of his earthy family until he returns to the eponymous “shack” where his murdered daughter was found in response to a mysterious invitation, and he goes back with a gun seeking revenge.
There instead he meets Jesus, who leads him into the woods to meet God the Father and The Holy Ghost. I’m not going to give it ALL away but it deals with some very thorny issues of why God “lets bad things happen”, forgiveness even in the face of the most extreme evil,trusting God to exact punishment, judgement, and what is possible with Christ (everything!) and I can’t anyway because I’m trying to work and just thinking about it is tearing me up because I have some very, very good reasons to hate child abusers (some I’ve discussed here, others…not) and some EXTREME anger issues from it that God brought me to this movie to help me with and to aid in my understanding of His word and His will.
But here’s the thing.
The producers of this movie chose to make God a Black woman for much of the movie.
And there’s NO problem with that.
Because it’s NOT for WOKE reasons.
The point they make is that God IS in EVERYONE and can BE anyone He WANTS to be at any time, and that was the face that the man in the movie needed at the time. Later, when he has to bury his daughter symbolically, God appears as a Father because that’s what he NEEDS at that time.
And it WORKS.
…I do NOT have a problem with a Black God, because He IS Black. He is ALSO White, Brown, Red, Yellow, or any hue in between.
Because He is ALL our Father.
I don’t like “woke” reasonings either, but that doesn’t mean I will recoil from an image of God as a race that is not mine, because He made every race and can appear to every race AS that race, because He is as much THEIR Father as he is MINE. The only time I think there’s an issue is when a race tries to take him over TOTALLY, as in liberation theology where they say any God that doesn’t serve Black interests must be killed (not kidding, https://btpbase.org/if-god-is-white-kill-god-why-dr-james-cone-was-once-the-most-hated-theologian-in-america/), but MY God is the God of ALL, so he can LOOK like all…but He is STILL God.
…and I DO recommend that movie.
Here’s a taste…
https://youtu.be/CL0yUbSS5Eg
Jason
APRIL 14, 2021 AT 7:22 AM
“This one will have just one arm raised, pointing toward the U.S.”
…and one finger on the hand on that arm raised as well…
SNS, The Shack was one of the books that we read in our book club. I haven’t seen the movie but I hope that the scenes where he meets with God on Wallowa Lake in North Eastern Oregon are as good they were depicted in the book. Wallowa Lake and the entire Wallowa valley with the Eagle Cap Wilderness area to the South is one of the most beautiful, isolated, off the road, out of the mainstream places left in this country. My moms sister and her family lived there and we visited it quite often when we were younger.
Does Brazil count peeps who died in vehicular head-on collisions as “covid” deaths like we do? Or are they a tad more honest?
Inquiring minds want to know.
izlamo delenda est …
The US Army ran and chased Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians out of the Wallowa Valley in the 1870’s leading to the Nez Perce Indian War in 1876. The Army chased them all the way into Northern Montana and captured them just short of the Canadian border before they could escape into Canada. And we gave them crappy, treaty land up around Nespelem, Wash. to be settled on. Now a lot of the Nez Perce Indians have resettled into the Lewiston, Idaho area along the Clearwater River and up around Cottonwood and Grangeville, Id. on the Camas Prairie just North of their original homeland of the Wallowa Valley across the Salmon River to the South.
AbigailAdams April 14, 2021 at 6:31 am
Uh, I forgot to mention that this body of Christ reformation/revival that I’ve been writing about….it’s global. Yeah.
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This must be what Dr. Steve Turley is talking about. He’s an upbeat guy.
A Conservative Christian Majority is RISING! Dr. Steve with Sebastian Gorka!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXFuPTe85RI
I’ve seen the Christ Redeemer – it’s a beautiful tribute to God.
geoff the aardvark
APRIL 14, 2021 AT 8:53 AM
…I never read the book so I can’t say, but their outdoor scenes are beautiful.
And thank you for your description, it sounds like a nice place and there’s less of those around every day.
…Maybe I should read the book too…
Golden Fox — Thanks for the link. Yes, Turley has part of it (a small part). This is so much bigger. It’s so much more than “religiosity” (as he put it.) 🙂
SNS, The Shack was a very controversial book among Christian fundamentalists who hated this book because of it portrayal of God as a black woman which they considered to be blasphemous. I didn’t find it to be blasphemous but it was an enjoyable read from a different perspective about God and spirituality. These are are lot of the same types of religious phonies who love the Left Behind series which I consider to be garbage trying to scare people into believing about the end times and the Rapture. Just like Hal Lindsay and his book The Late Great Planet Earth back in the 70’s which scared a lot of gullible people into becoming Christians only to fall away quickly when things got tough. Another great book is called Peace Like A River by Leif Enger which I suggested for our book club after reading it. This book should be made into a movie as well because of it’s theme of redemption of a family from Minnesota and their trials and tribulations of seeking after a son who has gone astray. It’s a great read as well. I generally don’t like so called Christian books written specifically for Christian readers because they are almost always poorly written, stereotypical Christian pablum that only preach to the choir. I prefer books that are about real life written by fallen authors who have been redeemed by the blood of Christ and their writing shows by their struggles with redemptive themes. Which is why I love Dostoevsky, CS Lewis, GK Chesterton, Herman Melville, Victor Hugo, Nathanael Hawthorne, Flannery O’Connor (one of my personal favorites with short stories like A Good Man Is hard To Find) etc. and the novels of Michael D. O’Brien a Canadian Catholic author who writes incredible books about themes of redemption as well.
Try “Lord of the World” by RH Benson.
Powerful.
izlamo delenda est …
Where’s Oral Roberts’ 900 foot Jesus?