Tag: christianity
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A Poem (the love of God)
O fierce and captivating love of God, drive the wind like hope leaping through the riot of the temporal realms of mortal blood, go crash the oceans with strong bounding waves and energise where the waters are quiet; dance on grassy hills and sing in the caves, lend solid rock to the old crumbling mountains,…
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A Vow Tested: A short story part 2
Chapter Two ‘So the turn we have to take is three miles from the path straight from the crossroads,’ said Gamallio as they went, ‘we have to be able to figure out when we are at the crossroads then, and not just walk straight and miss it, so we can estimate three miles from that…
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The fate of the unrepentant?
Which true Christian would not desire the salvation of all souls? The Bible says God desires the salvation of all people, but we do not know if that be realised, even God may not have that satisfaction. I do not know if everyone will be saved or if some are allotted damnation, how can anyone…
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Why the Crucifixion?
God paid the penalty our sin, we, being worthless without God, unable to offer Him recompense for the sins we’ve committed against Heaven, were given eternal hope when God said, ‘I will do it, I will pay the cost for their sin,’ and came in person, fully incarnate to do so. All the host of…
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Parable of the Grapes: A Poem
Grapes I’d a cluster of purple grapes, ‘what sweet succulent taste awaits,’ I thought, taking one for delight, spitting it out, ‘this nothing sates,’ I said, repulsed, ‘such a sour blight, these must be wild grapes alright.’ The grapes are from the Vineyard parable of Isaiah, and seeming good and delicious but in reality sour…
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The Jar: A Poem about Israel
The Jar There was a jar that had a crack, much content for this did it lack; it wished to love it could be back to unmarred state before a whack; but when the potter went to mend it, it balked, for his love did offend it. The jar is representative of Israel as I…
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There is a Grave called Death: A Poem
There is a Grave called Death Some may think it a barren hope, and call the Christian a fool who at the sheer fantastic does grope, and say, ‘calm, you thing of lunatic; but so long is a length of rope.’ And, it’s true it’s a kind of kindness to inform of reality to the…
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Meditation on a leaf: A Poem
Isolated Leaf On a tree a lone leaf that perhaps wishes to entrust a grief to some soul magnanimous enough to consider the dignity of nature’s lowly twig furnisher: its fellows are shrivelling below and it won’t live to see the new green grow. ‘I half wonder,’ it said ‘if my sin was refusing to…
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A short poem with exposition: Do not hope for the world to make you happy
An Ocean There was a sad ocean that saw a distant happy seeming shore, and thought to rinse the sunny land with its deep blue sorrow’s demand, hoping it’d give happy succour; so the tide washed in with a wave: a returned tide was all the land gave, it had not the joy the sea…
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Argument for the Existence of God from Love
Justin: I have been thinking from the atheist point of viewone cannot ascribe to love infinite value,as the atheist, as a materialist, will have to saylove will cease to be when the universe meets its last day;whatever ceases to be can’t hold infinite valueas infinite value depends on eternal accrueof days; without eternity naught is…
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