Posted by: the5walls on: May 8, 2008
Someone has taken the time to work out that there are 613 commandments to do with the law including 248 positive commandments and 365 negative ones. Click this link.
What signifies a positive commandment and a negative commandment I hear you ask? Well, as far as I can tell, most of the negative ones start with [...]
Posted by: the5walls on: August 9, 2007
The PTC held it’s annual lecture nite, inviting the Professor of biblical studies of Westmont College and Old Testament scholar, Prof. Tremper Longman III to discuss “The History and Theology of the Exodus: An Assessment of the Current State of the Discussion.” It was an interesting nite focusing on the historical theological background to the [...]
Posted by: the5walls on: August 2, 2007
I’ve just spent the last week reading thru the ‘lost gospel of Thomas’ to see what it says and come up with an idea of why it isn’t part of the biblical Canon. It is quite intersting and for me to really sit down and think deeper into the text would really test my theology [...]
Posted by: the5walls on: July 3, 2007
8. Bring guilty motorists and their victims together, at the appropriate time, so that they can undergo the liberating experience of forgiveness. When is an appropriate time to bring the two parties together? Aren’t they already together at the time of the accident? Why the need to bring them together again? I know that this [...]
Posted by: the5walls on: June 28, 2007
6. Charitably convince the young and not so young not to drive when they are not in a fitting condition to do so. I like how we are told to convince them ‘charitably.’ What is a charitable way of telling people to do something when they are absolutely drunk out of their minds or off [...]
Posted by: the5walls on: June 26, 2007
5. Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination, and an occasion of sin.
Coming from a country that makes Ferrari’s, I wonder how this law goes down with the locals. There goes sub-woofer sales and many other car accessories that people like to do to their cars. You shall not smooch [...]
Posted by: the5walls on: June 26, 2007
4. Be charitable and help your neighbor in need, especially victims of accidents. Does this mean to help our neighbour to jumpstart their car in the morning when they’re late for work and have a flat battery? I think Aussies do pretty well at this but there are the occasional hooligans who cant control their [...]
Posted by: the5walls on: June 24, 2007
3. Courtesy, uprightness and prudence will help you deal with unforeseen events.
Every time you drive on the road, unforeseen events happen. A person walks out infront of your car, someone goes thru a red lite, people are impatient to overtake you.
But again, this doesn’t have to specifically apply to motorists on the road. It [...]
Posted by: the5walls on: June 23, 2007
I wonder how many rules Lightning McQueen has broken and whether kids should be watching movies like ‘Cars’ if these things are so bad? It’s not like I disagree with the rules itself; it’s more the fact that it doesn’t relate to God, it doesn’t point to Jesus and it was issued by a sinful [...]
Posted by: the5walls on: June 22, 2007
Obviously the Pope has been out cruising the streets of the Vatican in his pope-mobile and has across some hooligans wanting to race him from a set of traffic lites or cut across infront of him on a cobblestone street in Rome for him to come up with a 36 page doco on the “10 [...]