I just read this:

So I guess I prolly shouldn't have posted that last post. Oopsies.

Yeah that's right... today is fast. But not in the quick sense, in the lack of food sense.

I decided that I would take it upon myself to complete a 72 hour fast starting on Saturday night. It's now Monday night and man, I want food. Actually I thought that it would get progressively more difficult as the days went by, but it's just like a constant hunger. I think that your hunger peaks like a few hours after and then gradually decreases and levels off. So yeah, I'm hungry, but it's not like I can't stand it. But every time I think of, smell, hear, etc food it is harder.

Since last night was church and almost every night after church I do something afterwards that involves eating with a group of friends of mine, it was kinda difficult. We all went out to this pizza place, so there I was, watching everyone eating nice, juicy, greasy pizzas with their melted cheese, onions, ground beef, pepperoni. And I had to settle for a bottle of juice™. Holey, tomorrow after church, I shall eat until I exPLODE! Man... I can't wait.

Oh yeah, so I never esplained (yeah that's right, "esplained") why I am fasting. I'm doing it for my brother, mom and dad so that they all accept Christ. I pray that they do one day. Bahb said that fasting is a powerful weapon to use. I trust his judgement... or at least the judgement of the Bible! My dad just asked me if I wanted some shrimps, but well since I don't really want to have to tell him why I'm fasting I told him I didn't want any. I guess it's not REALLY lying. I want to eat them, but I don't want to break my fast. So uhm. Yeah, anyway I now have less than 24 hours. I can do it!

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"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
-- Charles Schultz

It doesn't make sense that God created the animals on the earth as babies. They had to be full-grown or they wouldn't have been able to survive. Newborn animals usually depend completely on their mothers. If God created unhatched chickens, they wouldn't be able to survive without their mothers, which sit on the egg to keep it warm and help the young chick find food in the first few weeks of its life. So therefore, the chicken came first.

Since I am now taking a class called the Academia de Obreros from my church, I decided to read ahead to one of the last lessons in our little booklet that they give us. It was talking about baptism and trying to say that one of the evidences of being baptised by the Holy Spirit is that you will speak in tongues and it gave reference to the Gospel of Mark, which states:However, I noticed that the text for this chunk in my bible is a smaller font. So I read the notes and it has a lot of evidence why Mark 16:9-20 was not actually written by Mark and therefore was not divinely inspired!

Upon a little research, I also found a similar case is found with John 7:53-8:11, which contains the famous line "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her." or "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone".

The source that listed both of these also said that these are the only two known cases in the entire bible that the scripture MAY not be divinely inspired. My bible has the following footnote after these two passages: "[the passage] most likely was not part of the original text of the Gospel of John. In spite of this, the passage has an important role in the history of the transmission of the text, so it has been included in the translation". Obviously it says "Gospel of Mark" respectively.

I have concluded that to be on the safe side, I will not base any weight on these passages. Since the "gifts of the spirit" and how they are abused has been really bothering me lately, I am going to completely disregard Mark 16:9-20, however John 7:53-8:11 has a really kewl story, so I will consider it as a reference of something Jesus probably did during his life. However it also raises a question. IF John 7:53-8:11 is not scriptural, then the statement "I do not condemn you either" was not inspired by God and therefore has the possibility of not being true. Which leads me to think ...does God condemn sinners? what about those who do not repent? This woman in the story clearly did not repent for her sin. Also, the statement "Go, and from now on do not sin anymore" also seems to me like it may not be something Jesus would say. We are all sinners. We know it, and God knows it even more than we do. No matter how saintly a person may think of themself, this does not get them into Heaven. You are saved by the Grace of God alone, not by your actions. So anyway, God, knowing full well that we all fall short of His glory, to make a statement like "and from now on do not sin anymore" seems a bit bold to me. Of course, God commands us all not to sin. Ever. But, I dunno, I could see why this statement doesn't really match the things that Jesus says. Maybe if he had told her to turn away from her adulterous ways, that would make more sense because then the people would have no reason to stone her to death.

With this passage included, the following passage (John 8:12) seems a bit out of place. After "Jesus was alone with the woman" (John 8:9) all of a sudden, he is preaching to the Pharisees. It doesn't say that he left and went somewhere else. It just starts saying how he just started preaching to the people. However, this would fit very well if it was a continuation after John 7:52. In John 7:52 they are saying how no prophet is from Galilee (referring to Jesus), and in the next one Jesus speaks out saying that he is the "light of the world", sort of negating the fact that no prophet comes from Galilee. What is the light of the world? It is something that will lead the people. This is what Jesus has done. He leads his people to salvation through his death and resurrection.

Why is it that Catholics are so obsessed with Jesus as a baby?

OK, I don't mean to make a habit of posting only on Wednesdays, but well that's how it's been lately. I'm sorry. Stay tuned for a Thursday or Sunday post coming soon to a theatre near you. And yes, I'm Canadian, eh.

So anywhose, where to start.... I had a very productive night. In fact, I feel really good about something right now. Better about this situation than I've felt in a long time. Well, last week, as you can probably tell from my last post, I wasn't feeling too great. I was upset about the church and the leader, and well I still don't agree with everything they do, but I suppose I am less upset by it... well at least right now. So last Thursday my "mom" from my discipleship family could tell there was something wrong with me. She asked me about three times what was wrong and for some reason, for lack of judgement or because I didn't want to tell her the whole story, I lied to her multiple times and said that I was fine. Man... after that I felt like Peter after he lied about knowing Jesus three times and I can completely understand how that happened.

Well it was more than just what was happening in church, but also things going on in my life. There was something that God told me to do and I let my emotions get in the way of it and it ended up blowing up right in front of my face. Because of it I've felt upset towards myself for not having listened to Him and not having acted upon what he told me to do. So today after our weekly discipleship meeting I had a really long talk with my mommy and the first thing I did was ask for her forgiveness for lying to her, and then I told her everything, well... everything about how I didn't listen to God. I didn't tell her that I was upset about some things in church. Maybe I'll save that for another time. But it was great and we had a conversation for about half an hour and she had a lot of great advice for me. One of the things she said was God will tell us things like a parent will say to his/her child "Don't touch the oven when it's on". What is the first thing the kid goes and does? It goes and touches the oven and gets burnt, but even though the child didn't listen to its parent, not only will the parent continue to love the child unconditionally, the child learned two lessons. First it learned not to touch the oven, and second, and definitely more applicable in my case, it learned to trust in its parent. The same thing happened to me. Even though I didn't listen to something He said, I have learned to trust in what He tells me to do and that he will continue loving me no matter what. What does the bible say?I just hope that I have learned my lesson and will listen to God in the future. I hope that I will have the strength to not depend on my own emotions, but will be able to overcome them and do what needs to be done at the time that God wants them to happen.