joyfulchristian

Memorial Day

I don't have anything special or powerful to say about Memorial Day. I'll just take a moment to say thank you to everyone in the services for all they do and have done for us.

But is it the same God

Via the InstaPundit I found this rant by Bloodthirsty Liberal against Al Sharpton.  It seems Al Sharpton questioned Mitt Romney's belief in God and is now trying to say it never happened.  Sharpton originally said:

“As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways, so don’t worry about that; that’s a temporary situation,” Sharpton said Monday during a debate with Hitchens at the New York Public Library’s Beaux-Arts headquarters.

He now says:

“What I said was that we would defeat him, meaning as a Republican,” Sharpton said. “A Mormon, by definition, believes in God. They don’t believe in God the way I do, but by definition, they believe in God.”

The idea that Sharpton wasn't saying that Romney didn't believe in God is laughable. He clearly did. What I want to address is something else entirely. I have no qualms with Romney, as a Mormon, being elected President. I know of nothing about Mormonism that cause me to believe his religion would be a problem in the presidency. That being said, I would not agree that Mormons believe in God.

Mormons definitely believe in a god. If you ask them will certainly tell you that they worship the God of the Bible.  However, I've studied with Mormons and I've read good sections of the book of Mormon. It's been a good long while so I don't remember the specifics, but I do know that I didn't recognize the god I found there. When I compare what I read there to what I find in the Bible, there just not the same.

I have seen some people argue that "clearly" Christians and Muslims worship the same deity because they're both monotheistic.  However, the god of the Koran, while identified as the same god, does not behave like the God of the Bible and I would not describe them as worshiping the same God that I worship either.

I'm sure that a lot of people would blast me for this and if I was more widely read there would be a good chance of a hate storm.  That would be in error.  This is not a slam against either of these religions.  I simply don't see my God when I look in their scriptures.

Consider an example. I believe in Dad.  I know other people who also believe in Dad.  Yet when I describe my father and they describe theirs, it doesn't sound like the same person. We may call him the same thing, but it's not the same person.

Now obviously this analogy isn't perfect.  This goes one step further. Not only is the god they describe not the same as the God I describe, but I don't believe their god exists.

I'd like to try to flesh this out, but I'm not all here right now.

Our little goalkeeper is coming along

I never knew much about soccer until my daughter Larissa started playing. I'm learning as we go.  She loves playing goalie and she had an awesome game this week.

Their opponents had the best player we've seen so far. (He scored while playing goalie. Just took the ball and zipped down the field.) He was an awesome player and he got a couple by her, but she did an awesome job of stopping his 1 on 1 attempts. He took one shot that caught her square on the eye (she's got a tad of a shiner). That knocked her out for a while, but she came back with a vengeance.

I didn't know she had all that in her. It's nice to be pleasantly surprised.

What is it Glenn Reynolds says

A pack, not a herd.

A BOY has been saved from possible abduction after his friends pulled him out of a car he had been dragged into by a man.

A man drove up to the group of friends at Midland train station in Perth and called them over yesterday evening, police said today.

When the boys refused, the man demanded the 13-year-old boy approach the car, saying he was a family friend.

When the boy went to the vehicle the man tried to pull the boy inside.

The boy broke free with the help of his friends and they called security guards.

It's clearly good to have friends.