Today, a response is shared that was made to a nameless invader who disrupted a Sunday-school class for small children with questions concerning Noah’s Ark. Also, there is more on modern communion. The fighter at “Yahoo! Answers” (whose membership information was hidden) posted the following:
How can somebody believe in the story "Noah's Arc"?
Yesterday (Sunday) I was in church with my little brother so I got the choice to stay in with the adults or go with the younger kids and I sat in with the younger kids and they talked about "Noah's Arc" which really raised questions.. Last time I talked about it I was about 8-9. So their talking about it and I just had to say "How can you believe this?" they asked what I meant and I just asked them a few simple questions "How did they fit that many animals on a 500 feet boat?" They couldn't answer that then I said "How would you feed that many animals" couldn't answer, then "How did 7 people build this amazing boat even though they've never built a boat?" guess what? They couldn't answer that.. Now they pulled me to the side and just told me to listen.. They never answered my questions in the story they told..
P.S. I'm Fifteen and they allow anybody up to 16 in the children class in my church so that's how I got in.
THE BATTLE AXE: Modern Communion? (08/11/2014)—(5.) As a sacrament, sharing the Lord’s Supper does not begin, or complete a person’s redemption and salvation. No one is saved through the observation and practice of Holy Communion. However, Holy Communion continues ones sacred awareness, and multiple links to GOD established by the redemption and salvation of those who are already saved. Operations by the same Holy Spirit that established the heaven and the earth make it that Communion is more than a social custom, a symbolic religious ritual, or a simple practice historically maintained as a tradition. An otherwise invisible incarnation of divinity occurs on behalf of mankind that must be engaged through awareness and self-will (we say, choice and volition). The usual frameworks of time and space must be put aside. Also, believers may not rely upon such finite human tools as intellect, logic, mathematics, philosophy, politics, reason, and science. In the Communion, human consciousness is transformed to apprehend and perceive pure being, deity, and eternal existence. See John 6: 45-68, KJV.
THE GOLDEN ARROW: Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: (Isaiah 28: 9-10, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Origin of Baptism? (06/22/2013); Destroyed in Noah’s Flood? (04/28/2013); Both Born Holy? (04/29/2013); A Second Adam? (03/25/2013); GOD Hiding in Plain Sight (03/26/2013); Foolish For Not Believing? (03/22/2013); Science and the Laws of Nature? (03/23/2013)
Here are a few points you may find helpful when you become a Christian to avoid being seen as an invader or a fool who disrupts, and wants to boast attacking the faith of younger believers, rather than a student seeking further understanding:
1. Accepting and acknowledging truth (we say, believing) is a complex, yet, natural process within human awareness, and is available to small children as well as to adults. Believing expresses resolution of conflict, and therefore, believing does not promote analysis, challenge, and questions. Where there is belief, aspects of ones spirit content (e.g., faith, holiness, wisdom), operations of ones flesh (e.g., appetite, emotion, sensation), and of ones mind (e.g., discursive thought, intellect, logic, reason, recall) all are engaged at the same time. Thus, there must be balance as well as completeness and stability (we say, maturity).
2. Just as we regard as friends and trust only those with whom we share certain common interests, and with whom we share a “history” of experience, Christians embrace Almighty GOD and Jesus Christ through “relationships” having fulfilled expectations, clear explanations, sacred knowledge, sacred practices, and suspension of condemnation or distrust. As with our friends in the flesh, for those in Spirit, there must be acceptance of differences, lack of information (we never know everything about even our best friends), and repeated adjustments of our demands and expectations.
There is far more to be said, correctly understood, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, (3.) Through baptism and other operations that can be carried out only by GOD, created beings and living creatures are established as having discernment (the ability to recognize and respond to spirit content in such life experience as events, persons, purposes and holy writings). Those who receive the imparted spirit content from the makeup of GOD (we say, born again) must also “grow up again” upon the earth to consistently and regularly operate having sacred knowledge and insight.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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