August 24, 2012
Saved
As Jesus hung on the cross bystanders were heard saying, “Let’s see if Elijah comes down to save
him.” (Matt 27:49b NIV) I find it interesting that the more outspoken
believers are about their faith, the more they are scrutinized. Bystanders are
just watching to see if Jesus will come down and save them from every
predicament and struggle they have in life. What they fail to realize is that,
like Jesus, we’ve already been saved.
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Gail;
-----The whole Jesus tricked, arrested, and hung on the cross thing surfed a wave of totally ordinary human nature. By “tricked” I don’t mean Jesus was deceived or cheated into going to the cross. I mean the Passover situation was the opportunity actively seized by Jesus’ enemies and converted by trickery into serving up His demise. There is always a small group of infectiously deceitful people around to play the shallow ignorance of the masses for effecting their own carnivorous aims.
-----Jesus spoke in parables so that hearing, the people who do not hear would not hear. God is very accommodating in ways like this. That’s why life is so dangerous. Most people are certain they have heard, so they’re not very willing to hear or think more. A few people are anxious to crucify whoever stands in the way of their shaping and harnessing public sentiment. So instigators concern themselves with sheltering the masses from the truth about matters while driving them rabid with passionate impressions. “Barabbas! Barabbas!” “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!” Afterwards, of course, the crowd stands with blinking eyes wondering, maybe hoping, something saves the poor chap.
-----Outspoken believers are not perfect believers. The passion of their belief often draws out passionate expressions, which is not always wise. Although the substance of what they say is practically true, the words they choose can be ambiguous enough to create a “Passover situation” for enemies of truth.
-----I, too, cringed at Todd’s idea of “legitimate rape”. But I refused to yell, “Crucify him!” Instead, I mixed some research into what I already knew. The percentage of rapes resulting in pregnancy is nearly 400% higher than that of pregnancies occurring from unprotected, consensual sex. What makes the rape victim 400% more fertile? Maybe rapists are most virile and choose only the most fertile women for victims. Really?! Almost every woman who reports rape is believed. Then statistics are made. The problem is that many rape victims are teenagers with parents to face or women with reputations to maintain. They tend to “become raped” when they’ve learned they’ve become pregnant by the consensual experience they once or more often enjoyed. I know; I’m toast. The truth ruins us today. Big deal! Now I recognize what Todd meant by “legitimate rape”. I would love to revisit the statistics on pregnancies resulting from women and girls taken completely against their will, most often violently, and always in emotional violence. Everything I’ve seen and read before the Akin moment indicated that the great pleasures of consensual sex enhance the probability of impregnation while severe stressors diminish it. That is the evolutionary take, especially (of which the Akin executioners mostly are.) But after Akin, everything known before Akin is trashable. Regardless of the meaning or rhyme or reason of what he said, Todd’s at least partially true expression had enough ambiguity in it to serve the deceitful intentions of people who refuse to hear what he meant. Almost the entire country now sorts themselves out as righteous by slamming the Akin.
-----Sorry. I will neither sort myself that way nor stand around wondering if he is salvageable. He is toast from the heat of the masses frenzied by the evil intentions of a few spiritual gremlins. And we’ve become more evil by not demanding his intent be heard at least alongside the intent of his executioners. We trade our honor for mindless passion, then we wonder why we get what we elect.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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