In this post, I consider a question sent in to
me by a reader about whether or not God can look upon sin and evil.
Warning: This post will interest only the most scholarly among you... It is written in answer to a question sent in
by a reader about Genesis 1 - 2.
-LSB-...] and there were some helpful responses
by readers about decluttering on that post as well.
Amazon is starting to crack down on what keywords you use because they had so many complaints
by readers about searching certain keywords and finding books that were not «romance» or whatever.
I was recently asked a question
by a reader about the drawbacks of getting a private student loan.
Not exact matches
If you want
readers to care
about your story, you need to give them a reason; for instance, may like to start off
by explaining why you decided to write the piece.
Rather than earn revenue from subscriptions, the company would now try to make money
by selling sales leads — data
about readers who had agreed to share their information — to companies and universities.
Recently, when I wrote
about how email as we know it will become obsolete
by 2020, several
readers took issue with the prediction, arguing that email might change but we will still rely on it as a primary form of digital communication.
Instead he tells
readers that proponents of a tax haven't thought
about its consequences and uncritically repeats every piece of nonsense produced
by the financial industry to attack the idea.
Reading this book,
readers will get warnings
about four mistakes that companies commonly make — blindness to interactions between systems, getting locked in to existing ways of doing business, falling victim to cognitive biases, and derailment
by short - termism.
By reading this article
about the real option robot, the
readers will be able to identify the scammers and would thus, be safe from losing their hard - earned money due to the scam.
«I might lose whatever credibility I have with
readers if I suggested flat out that a book centered around the subject of oil, written
by an economist, was a page - turner, but I am willing to say with conviction that Why Your World Is
About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller,
by former CIBC Chief Economist Jeff Rubin, is a fantastically compelling read.
Frequent
readers of this research publication are
by now long familiar with our concern
about an inventory led slowdown in steel (Making Volatility our Friend: Trading the Kitchin Cycle, 5/28/14, Unsustainable Steel Premiums, 9/3/14, Revisiting the Inventory Cycle, 10/1/14).
Readers may recall that we have talked
about the theory espoused
by our previous guest speaker Ben Hunt with respect to price inflation in a period of monetary tightening in a series of recent posts entitled «Business Cycles and Inflation» (see Part 1 and Part 2 for the details).
For the last several years, we've discussed many of these factors,
about which
readers can fully test their understanding
by perusing scores of reports and essays archived here at https://www.moneymetals.com/news You can also find a steady stream of informative, relevant, actionable information on «The Silver Guru» David Morgan's Blog.
by During this banker raid on paper gold and paper silver, while banking shill Nouriel Roubini was spouting more propaganda in the distribution channels of the mass media of a gold collapse to sub-par $ 1000 an ounce prices, we were busy informing our
readers about the «Lies of Nouriel Roubini» (whose sole purpose in life, -LSB-...]
Judging
by the emails we get from our
readers, there appears to be some confusion
about home inspections and FHA loans.
The
reader should not, then, be disturbed
by Jesus» response to the urgent message
about Lazarus's illness (11:3 - 6): Jesus stayed two days longer where he was.
Suggestions to Christian
readers: When reading
about another faith, do not read books written
by Christians, read the ones written
by believers themselves.
If the
reader expects to be entertained, instead,
by the story of the delightful Wife of Bath and her tale
about «What women most desire in the world» — even that is denied us.
I love this painting and was sad to see that it was already sold
by the time I read
about it in my feed
reader.
In response to our coordinate efforts for Mutuality 2012, I have heard from women who say they feel their dignity and worth have been restored, from multiple
readers who have changed their minds
about women in ministry, from couples relieved that they can finally put a name to how their relationship has functioned all along, from singles freshly inspired
by the «great cloud of witnesses» that surrounds them, from followers of Jesus whose passion for justice and equality has been renewed, from women ready to «get on with it» and stop asking permission to use their gifts and start unapologetically using them.
Because he is a voracious
reader who goes in for heavy reading
about ultimate concerns, his humor can be appreciated especially
by those familiar with the pretentiousness of some religious and philosophical literature.
We then have a major section on Ayesha, who is later impersonated
by one of the prostitutes, the whores of «The Curtain,» and from that impersonation the
reader is given full details of Ayesha's strong - willed character, and the scandal involving her and an apparently innocent young man, Safwan, who rescues her on a desert trail only for idle tongues to wag
about their alleged secret conduct.
However, you do yourself and your
readers a grave disservice
by going on, ad nauseum,
about those for whom Obama is a secret Muslim, the Anti-Christ, etc..
When Matthew's
readers heard this, it reminded them of policies they already knew
about: it was the same three - stage procedure that was followed
by the strict community of Jews living at Qumran in Jesus» day.
Beginning with the that that we are what we think, Dr. Earl Radmacher invites the
readers to take a journey of the mind, and then begin to transform their mind
by beginning to think right
about God, church, church leadership, and a variety of other topics.
Before dismissing the above fantasy too quickly, let the
reader think
about why it is that our society seems so little concerned over female homosexuality, has regarded it so lightly, and has no idea of the amount of female sexual activity engaged in
by women who are not admitted homosexuals.
By the end of the book, I think your average
reader will be brimming with anger toward the religious right and fired up mostly
about progressive politics.
The author covered the sex abuse crisis for Newsweek and has produced a big book, mainly
about people and events in Boston, that will hold the attention of
readers interested in a journalistic account that tries to be fair - minded, although it is not untouched
by moments of legitimate, indeed necessary, outrage.
Actually a fourth and least authoritative line of inquiry might be added, consisting of (4) «Mere Rumors and Things Said
by Bertrand Russell on this Subject» postmodernist
readers may wish employ the same four lines of inquiry, and simply reverse the amount of attention given to each, and they might also add an account of the telling things that no one said or thought
about Bergson and Whitehead.
PJS: Before talking
about the contents of the
Reader, I have to say that I was struck
by something you mentioned in the introduction: how terrible the readily accessible translations of many of these documents are.
Shug Avery's famous advice to Celie
about the color purple might well be taken
by the white
reader as a message
about another important color, black.
Dr Hardy told The Sunday Telegraph: «People tend to talk
about [the King James Bible] as a distinctively English cultural product, as something that was made in England,
by Englishmen, for English
readers.
The average Bible
reader sits down for
about 30 minutes for each reading, and that number doesn't vary
by...
As we've been discussing homosexuality as part of our yearlong series on Sexuality & The Church, I've been surprised
by how many
readers have contacted me
about their mixed orientation marriages, both past and present.
Justin notes that Paul's rhetorical strategy here is to begin
by talking
about wicked people who had turned from God and gotten caught up in all kinds of sins, only to turn the argument on his
readers by declaring, «Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges.
The controversy has been sparked
by what Pastor Benke actually said in his prayer — and here Mr. Nuechterlein does a disservice to his
readers by failing to provide a single bit of information
about the content of Dr. Benke's prayer.
A book review illustrates this very well; for the reviewer not only tells his
reader about the book but,
by the way he talks
about it, he reveals himself as well.
Understand the exultant release that awaits a
reader in a society weighed down
by ideas of ancestral curses or hereditary taint, a
reader who discovers the liberating texts
about individual responsibility in Ezekiel 18.
In The Art of Biblical Narrative, Robert Alter suggests a key to characters» inner thoughts and motivations which would be helpful even to the inexperienced
reader of Scripture: first, external details (appearance, clothing, gestures); second, «one character's comments on another»; third, «direct speech
by the character»; fourth, «inward speech... quoted as interior monologue»; and fifth, «statements
by the narrator
about the attitudes and intentions of the personages» (pp.116 - 117).
One senses that today
readers are confronting the world of the Old Testament (that is, the world presented
by the text in its present form) for the first time and not being altogether sure they like what they see; or, if they like what they see, not being sure what all the historical - critical commotion is
about to begin with.
Some have applauded the book as creating a teaching moment
about the contours of Christian history and theology, and thoughtful
readers might well be intrigued
by complex questions the novel raises
about Christian origins.
Thankfully, my parents were voracious
readers of such Carmelite luminaries as Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, and Thérèse of Lisieux, and their shelves brimmed with books
by and
about the saints.
Thus, a
reader is led from thinking
about the patience of God as displayed in the Bible... to early Christian thought as displayed in Tertullian, Cyprian, and Augustine... to the characteristically medieval emphases of Gregory the Great, Aquinas, and Thomas Kempis... and finally to Calvin, Jeremiah Burroughs, and Kierkegaard - men who, though quite separated in time, represent perspectives shaped
by the Reformation.
... wow, lot's of mis - statements here
by people speculating
about the Bible and Jesus, including those of you who think the books of the Bible were written a few hundred years ago (Moses penned it around 1400BC)... the Bible is a collection of the most investigated writings of all time, so there is a tremendous amount of credible archeological and scientific material in this world available for review rooted in verifiable investigations... my response, read the Bible, do your own investigation, determine the Truth for yourself... hopefully, anne rice's denouncement of faith in the God of the Bible (it's difficult for me to believe she ever had Saving Faith in the first place) will bring some
readers to investigate and find the Truth... God will call the Elect, not one more, not one less...
[The
reader may find additional material
by or
about Samuel Shoemaker, Jr., at: (1) the Maryland Historical Society, Manuscripts Division, under «Shoemaker Papers;» (2) the Princeton University Archives at Princeton University, Olden Lane, Princeton, New Jersey, in the Samuel Shoemaker alumnus file; (3) the Episcopal Church Archives in Austin, Texas; (4) the Library of Congress, in the Ray Foote Purdy files of the Moral ReArmament (and Oxford Group) Archives; (5) the Maryland Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church; (6) the Stepping Stones Archives, Bedford Hills, New York, the Shoemaker - Wilson letters; (7) the Hartford Theological Seminary Archives, Hartford, Connecticut; and (8) the parish offices of Calvary / St.
Well isn't that nice?You know the more I hear
about this bible makes me wonder
about the people who read it.In fact I have been betrayed
by more than 90 percent of bible
readers I've met.No wonder it's the bible thumpers who seem to begrudge healthcare for those who cant afford it.
In regard to the comment
about how Herd Evans provides little guidance in this critique, I would encourage
readers not to seek step -
by - step guidelines for what to do next but to exegete the situation on their own
by engaging the tension through ongoing dialogue with millennials (or anyone who has become jaded with church).
Written
by C. S. Lewis from the perspective of a senior devil mentoring a junior devil in the ways of temptation, The Screwtape Letters edifies the
reader even as it engages difficult and ugly truths
about human experience and total depravity.