More opinion from the Sherborne St John, Hampshire, vicar who has a column in the village magazine. He says we should pray that the stupid wars we are fighting end soon (because Christians are being persecuted in them), and hopefully, all of the citizens of these foreign lands will end up finding Jesus. That'll sort the problems out, for sure.
"As we consider these things we should remember that, as has been said “Prayer moves the hand that moves the world” and make full use of this weapon that the Lord Jesus has given to all who believe in him.
We need to pray both that peace and security might come and that men of violence might be restrained.
We specially need to pray for Christians caught up in this conflict and often persecuted. And we should ask God that in some way that we perhaps cannot imagine at the moment all that is happening will lead to opportunities for the gospel in these countries and so become part of God’s great plan to save."
PS
Where do these wars fit in with 'God's great plan to save?' Isn't that a funny way to go about it?
6 comments:
so he's praying for God to 'restrain' the nasty non Christians? how very, umm, unchristian
To be charitable, I'd say the Vicar is a tad bit daft. To be honest? He's no freakin' better than his Yank evangelical counterparts and another reason I tire of the so-called Christian attitudes.
As far as I am concerned its all science fiction. More human beings have been slaughtered in the name of Yahweh,Allah,or Christ/God than for any other reason. That is historical fact.
I especially detest the so-called Christian attitude of "love thy neighbor" as long as the following caveats are observed:
No Woman's Right To Choose
No Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, or Transgendered folk,
Oh and most importantly, you MUST believe in ONLY "our" God & savior. By the way, the emblem of our worship is a particularly barbaric form of ancient torture & execution.
One man's mumbo-jumbo is a second man's science and yet a third's religion. Go ahead and worship my friends but please just leave me out of it. Oh, and stop with the hypocrisy already, oh wait, no don't do that, you might put me out of work as there'd be a sudden onset of peace. Not good for a journalist unless i wanted to write recipe columns all day....
Zechariah Sitchen wrote an answer to your question in one of his many books Elizabeth. "The Wars of Gods and Men".
The answer to your question is that the wars were never about saving the earth, they were about the greed of the sons of Anu and their battles with the followers of JWYH and Baal, all of whom were Anunaki attempting to control larger areas of the earth.
In the end they got so disgusted with the whole business they just left the earth, but not before instituting kingship at Ur and not before teaching men how to make war.
Ever since it has just been followers of the various offshoots of the servants of the now non-resident gods (who weren't really immortal, they just lived a very long time compared to men, and even went so far as to protect that by genetically altering mankind so that his maximum number of years would be 120- turns out humans breed about as fast as goats and they were displacing the Anunaki)
So, the gods are gone, and men fight on having forgotten what it was they were fighting for in the first place, and many of the battles take place in areas decorated with the symbols of the absentee landlords who got the whole bloody business started, at least according to Sitchen.
He writes a much more exciting story than the one told in the Bible.
And God was powerless to do anything about it? That's not very Almighty, is it?
Well, YHWH was just another anuna. They worshipped a supreme being who lived in a crystal palace, who was a lot like the Hindu concept of god. The annunaki were just people from the planet Niburu who had longer lives.
They weren't just aliens, they were tricky bastards too. When they figured out the humans thought they were immortal they did things to encourage the belief. Like, when Inanna's husband was murdered and chopped up, she sowed the 12 big pieces of him back together, everything but his penis, and put him on display telling all the people he was just sleeping. (the twelve pieces represent the 12 equal months and the 13th the short month of the lunar calendar)
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