Josiah Concept Ministries

Okay, I haven’t been feeling well these past few days.  I won’t go into gory details; suffice it to say that I feel better now and will continue to work on my response to the nonsense that is the Jesus Family Tomb.

Next on that front is an article on the patina evidence that links the James ossuary with the actual tomb.  The problem that I’m facing there is twofold: 1) I don’t have the book, and that is where the bulk of this material is located; and 2)  I know next to nothing about patinas in the first place.  My plan to remedy this is to visit my local library branch and read some Archeology 101 primers that have information about patinas and patina evidence so that I can have at least a rudimentary knowledge of what I’m supposed to be seeing in regard to that.  Then, I can take a look at what information I can find about the patina evidence that they’ve collected.

From what I understand, the dimensions on the James ossuary do not match the dimensions of the ossuary missing from this tomb, which of course makes it very doubtful that this is the genuine article.  Of course, I’ll have more on this later in the week, hopefully by about Friday or Saturday.

In closing, I wanted to comment on this article.  Since starting this blog, I’ve become a bit more conservative where gay rights are concerned.  I think that, as Christians, we should be more accepting of the people, but not of the sin.  General Peter Pace has given us a perfect example of exactly what I’m talking about.  Why should we tolerate amoral sexual behavior?  I’m a sinner, but I don’t flaunt it for all the world to see.  It is a private hell for me; I know it’s wrong but I can’t stop.  And I hate myself for it.  I don’t want everyone to know about it, I don’t want everyone to see my shame.  But the thing I want to do the least with my sin is create a rubber justification for it and the flaunt it for all the world to see, to wear armbands, to have parades for it, to create civil rights groups to protect my right to sin!  No, I want to pray to almighty God to come inside my heart, my hardened, sinning heart, and to regenerate it and make it in His image, so that I please Him.

But gay people don’t want to do that.  They want to flaunt their sinful behavior.  They take pride in their sin.  They want everyone to know that they live in rebellion against their Creator!  And worse than that, they want hide behind the law and use the law to silence anyone who would dare speak out against what they do!

Well, I would like to offer Gen. Pace a hearty congratulations for having the courage to tell it like it is.  All of the flack that he has gotten over this is more proof that God is giving people over to their sins, and sending them a powerful delusion to justify rebellion against Him.  He certainly seems to be hardening more people than He’s saving these days, and I say thank God that He chose me to save.  Obviously, I don’t merit saving.  But I’m glad that He called me nonetheless.

It just makes the fact that I still do sin all the more reprehensible to me.  I need to pray harder for the guidance of His Holy Spirit, that I may walk away from temptation and live in His truth.

It’s especially sad that more people don’t think like that.  “God has a plan, and that’s all nice, but we can do it better.”  What all sin boils down to is that mentality.  Isn’t that what Original Sin itself was?  “God said not to eat that fruit, but we know better.”  How arrogant that we think we know better than Him that created us.