Three Will

 Ok everyone, today in a writing presentation, we discussed a common theme of free will vs predestination, and I suddenly remembered the third thing in a trio that I thought about a while back.  I was trying to figure out if when you look for a third thing, the conflict goes away, and I do in fact have an idea for a third thing with free will and predestination.  And that third thing would be obedience.  So the idea is that there could be someone freely doing someone else's will. And then the next step would be to see if that trio lines up with the Trinity, and possibly it does.  The Holy Spirit goes where it pleases, God the Father ordains the world, and the son obeyed unto death.  I mean the problem with that is that all three persons are God so God does all three things and there is no need to divide it.  Like the son and spirit also helped create the world etc.  But anyway I look for the correspondence because it helps to see the actual construction of life and the way numbers line up.  And a lot of times, when you have a thing vs another thing, there might be a different way of looking at it and a third middle ground element being overlooked.  Well have a nice day everyone, personally I think I am onto something. They are saying to add this: It does kind of align with Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist theological emphasis.

Jonah and the Whale

 Hello everyone, this is a new worldly monk post about the book of Jonah.  Recently I was thinking about gradual memory loss and wondered if I would ever accidentally talk about “Jonah’s Ark.”  Well that would be embarrassing, but today at a discussion on rest, the speaker compared the Jonah story to a story of Jesus in the boat in Matthew.  Well I thought for a while and reflected on Noah’s ark being a boat story, too, and I discovered something so sweet.  If you think about boat stories, all the animals in the world got included in the story of Noah’s ark.  But what about whales?  They weren’t in that boat because they were in the water.  So God made another story that included a giant fish.  The fish is like a representative for all ocean animals.  And in the story, when it talks about Jonah praying, you can imagine the whale praying and being thankful for its salvation too.  So now I wonder who the new testament boat story included. I will have to go back and look at it.  I think there are a few boat stories.  I mean maybe it is a retelling of the other boat stories.  Well that is all, I believe this is a real biblical teaching of justice.