3. One more not very related comment. I am an unapologetic Old-earther, but find that Evolution is the biggest scientific idiocy, that is until recently, when they (athiestic type scientists) started talking about infinite/Multiple universes. Me thinks they doth protest too much against creationism.

1. Took my little girl there for her 7th birthday. Was great!

2. Am a Software Engineer (47 yo), but can’t get into social programs like facebook, don’t have a blackberry nor a cell phone!!! But I do love Java, for applications, not the web. Also love ADA. Know what that is?

3. I love the Shack. I understand there were certain Pharisaical reactions to it, and it was not perfect. But I do believe it is the modern day Job story, and in the end it shows the radical nature of God’s love in such a fallen world. Take the good, throw away the bad, and you will get it. One comment I can’t resist. There was some comment about the Holy Spirit, I forget what she was called in The Shack, and dimensionality. I believe, not dogmatically, that everything that we can know and understand about our present universe is created. That includes time and dimensionality. God is outside of all that.

4. My little girl eats Pizza. Isn’t that nutritious?

6. 24, NCIS, House (though when they talk about diagnosing MS in a few hours it makes me barf). I have MS and the McDonald criteria of 2005 says a minimum of 6 months. I also barfed at a recent show where House went on Methadone instead of Vicodin and all the doctors were so incredibly upset. Idiots. I was on very large doses of Methadone for 2 years for 3 bad discs. And once he was on it, it would take a long time to go off. The withdrawal is hell. Other shows: Life, Lie to Me, The Unit, Saving Grace, The Mentalist, The Beast, Law and Order, etc. Spend a lot of time in bed with no energy to do much. A lot of these shows are like living a separate vicarious life for me.

10. Not a Calvinist in any way, but not Arminian either. Go figure. No, I mean really, go figure that one out. It is possible to be neither.

11. I am an engineer. That problem I would have done in 7th grade.duh.

12. Yes, I Love RAP! I admit it and will not repent. I am white and 47 and am not doing it to connect to one of my older kids. Anyone who hasn’t listened to 2Pac needs to. Listen to people who have lived thru stuff most of you never will. On the Christian side, listen to Emmanual Jal (Warchild) from The Sudan. That is an example of a REAL Christian.

14. I would have to do that. All the women in my house are deadly afraid of spiders. The dogs and cats don’t eat them often enuf.

18. I am a little OCD, but there is this segment that causes hyper-focus with regards to my work, and it works for me. I would never change that. It also got me thru Engineering School graduating Summa Cum Laude. So there to anti-OCD’ers

I thought this was a pretty reasonable discussion about the Shack.

http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=6198

Michael,

I got through about 75% of “The Shack” until a devout Christian friend of mine–after telling him I was reading it and he should give it a look–told me that it had theological problems and he’d bring the Bible and I could bring “The Shack” and he’d show me.

I never said it was a perfect book, I just suggested or asked him if he had read it. His reaction put me off because of his self-righteous reaction. I got what I wanted out of it. The Bible is still my only authority, not “The Shack.”

That being said, I hope you devout a post to your review of it. I may pick it back up and finish reading it.

Michael, you absolutly have to explain why you , being a calvinist , go to an Arminian church. I just have to know!

I’m rather surprised that you’d say you love The Shack (I’ve consistently heard bad reviews from conservative Christians). What about it do you like?

10. I thought I was the only one. Is your wife arminian? That’s why I go to an arminian church. It also helps keep me thinking about things I think I am settled on.

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I am very happy to hear you like The Shack. Most Calvinists don’t like it.

I love 24 and Lost, but this season’s Prison Break is the best season of that, I don’t know when they will pick it back up in Belgium, though. 24 has been ok this season. Still contemplating Lost. It is getting a little too sci-fi for me. I used to watch Smallville, but it got so sensual I let it go. I love Superman and that story, but Smallville was a Dawson’s Creek version of Superman (guess that is what you get from the CW).

And, Rey, I am happy to see you posting here.

Rey. You say there was a season when it wasn’t?

*Picks up a stone*

I heard Smallville actually was good this season.