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Technology Bringing Change?

August 28, 2011 by Fritz

“[T]here is no new thing under the sun” Ecclesiastes 1:9b

Technology is often pointed to as refuting the Bible’s statement about change.

I found interesting what Steve Jobs, technology leader and Apple CEO now retiring due to ill-health, said:

“[T]his stuff doesn’t change the world. It really doesn’t. I’m sorry, it’s true.

Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time … technology is not changing it much — if at all …

[I]t’s a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light — that it’s going to change everything.[Wired, February 1996]

Only Jesus can affect real change – a change of heart, motives, and action.

— fritz@langgang.com
Also see: “Fluff” – March 22, 2011

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Prayer and God’s Timelessness

August 27, 2011 by Fritz

“Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: – 2nd Thessalonians 3:1

I’m sure glad I’m not the only one who thinks this way — the logic goes like this:

  1. God lives outside of time, it is all now to him;
  2. God acts on prayer from us;
  3. So why can’t my prayer now affect events in the past as easily as the future?

Logically there is no reason why not but how can they if they have already happened? When Paul or Jesus in the Bible asks believers to pray for something is it not biblical for me to pray now?

Philip Yancey in his book on prayer thinks through the same thing, finding help from C.S.Lewis

“How does God’s timelessness affect prayer? C.S.Lewis decided it altogether reasonable to pray at noon for a medical consultation that might have been conducted at ten o’clock as long as we do not know the final result before we pray. “The event certainly has been decided — in a sense it was decided ‘before all worlds.’ But one of the things taken into account in deciding it, and therefore one of the things that really cause it to happen, may be this very prayer that we are now offering.” – Prayer, by Philip Yancey quoting C.S.Lewis, Miracles pg. 185-6

Prayer:“Father I pray for the Apostle Paul, as he requested so many years ago, that your words spoken through him will have free course to spread, glorifying God in my life and in my world! Amen!”

— fritz@langgang.com

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The Answer for Arguments

August 26, 2011 by Fritz

And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will. – 2nd Timothy 2:24-26 (NIV)

People are not changed by arguing but by repenting.

The answer for arguments and stubborn objection is not more arguments, convincing reasons, or strict logic but a change of heart and only God can do that.

This works on ourselves, too. Having trouble believing? Ask God to first change your heart (your “want to”) then the mind will come right along!

— fritz@langgang.com

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