Wonderful Matters

I was listening to Greg Koukl's podcast yesterday and he had a personal take on the Bob Dylan major motion picture biopic that came out a few months ago. First of all, I'd mentioned Mr. Koukl in my latest home page piece in the context of his unwillingness to call out the Roman Catholic Church for what it really is, only because his tax-exempt non-profit relies on the ecclesiocratic hegemony and all its devout followers to fund his enterprise. Otherwise, he does do pretty decent explication of Christian things. In this instance he pointed out how influential Dylan was on a whole generation, there in the 60s, but that the foolish idealism that exuded from that whole mentality is so destructive. He specifically noted the zealous insistence that young people were going to save the world, and then asked the important question. "Do you know why young people will not save the world?" At that point I instantly thought these words -- and yes, quite sadly, a very veritable Tr...

18 years ago the best explainer of World System activity against the beauty and glory and wonder of the Kingdom passed away. Tupper Saussy and his seminal work Rulers of Evil  brought together much of the history of System machinations and clearly exposited its real meaning: That God has allowed it all for the expressed purpose of highlighting the evil that it and normal human beings do so people would call on the name of the Lord. None of this is hidden or new or esoteric or unfathomable or the exclusive purview of those who are insightful enough to see what "secret societies" do. The history is there to read and understand. The current events happening today are right there for anyone to see and hear. Above all Scripture is very clear about the distinction between the World and the Kingdom. But yeah, it is my firm belief the only way anyone can  see and hear and understand -- and yeah not be  blind and deaf and dumb -- is to ask Christ to make them see. Otherwise just a...