Death

We hear about death at least once a week. Usually, its on the news or from a friend who had a friend who had a friend that had someone die. It doesn't affect us until it hits close to us. Evolutionary theorists and humanists try to get us to believe that death is natural. It is simply a part of the cycle of life. We live then we die. The Bible acknowledges that for each person there is a time to be born and a time to die. But, the Bible does not show that death is natural. It was never a part of God's plan. Death is a consequence of humanity's sin. The Bible says that the wages of sin is death. Usually, I associate this with spiritual death. We will die by being separated from God. I had not fully realized that this verse includes physical death as well. We die because of sin. This is not meaning that those who die unexpectedly or young, die because they are horrible sinners. The Bible speaks in the Psalms how the righteous die but the wicked prosper. People die because each of us sin. We sin, therefore death will come. Death was never meant to happen. God's plan was for us to live forever with him in the garden. Wonderfully, he came into our world as Jesus and made a way for us to restore our life with him. We can't escape death, but the sting is gone. The after effect of separation from God had been demolished for those in Christ. Death sucks, but God has overcome death.

The Name Game

Buckle your seatbelts, hold on tight, place all valuable eyewear in a secure place, get ready for a good ole fashioned rant!

One of my biggest pet peeves in the blogosphere are anonymous commenters. People will come post a comment and not leave a name. Sometimes they post good things, sometimes they post bad things, sometimes they are flat out mean. Yet they never tell you who they were. It could be they simply aren't smart enough to figure out that even though they have to log on as anonymous they can still leave their name at the bottom.

An example:

anonymous said...
i think super dave smells like cabbage.
-Super Dave
12:00 PM, January 5, 2006

See, it's not that hard to do. You may not have blogger, but you can still identify who you are. Some people may say they don't want to leave their name because they are afraid of the repercussions from what they said. Hey if you aren't man or woman enough to deal with the consequences of what you say, then don't say it. Stop being wimps and wusses who aren't willing to stand up and be recognized. Anonymous comments piss me off, but if you talk crap about me in an anonymous comment, I won't respond. I will get pissed, but I won't let it eat at me. I will forget about it. It will carry no real weight with me. I will only get pissed because you didn't have the guts to reveal yourself. What you say will make no difference to me if you don't have the dignity to say who you are.

The moral of my rant, don't post anonymous comments without saying who you are. If you do, I will delete it!