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Sep. 11th, 2008 08:55 pmGot hit in the glasses with a frisbee on Tuesday night. Friendly fire. As a consequence, my right eye has been a bit swollen the last couple of days; not much, just enough to make wearing glasses decidedly uncomfortable and leaves me with the choice of having a headache from not wearing my glasses or having a headache from the pressure while wearing them.
Took yesterday off work, did a lot of housework and got really bored from not being able to read or go on the computer much. Was mildly entertained by the Jehovah's Witnesses who called. I'm terrible at getting rid of such people - I get the fact that I'm a Christian and belong to a Baptist church out there and then see what tack they take.
This lot tried talking about the name of the LORD as written in the Bible, and why you don't see Jehovah written in the Bible anymore. *shrugs* Unfortunately for them, I'd already heard both reasons they gave and don't see why, if you show respect in the use thereof, it matters whether His name is written the LORD, I AM, Father, the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, Jesus, the Prince of Peace, or the Holy Spirit. Which name is used where if often important, although neither they nor I went into that, because it can show which aspect of Him is foremost, but the who and how that is being referenced is what's really important, not whether you use YHWH, the LORD, Jehovah or Adonai.
This is not to say that I don't occasionally argue finer points of interpretation at times, because I do quite happily. It's just as I get older and I mellow, some of the specifics become less important in favour of the general.
Took yesterday off work, did a lot of housework and got really bored from not being able to read or go on the computer much. Was mildly entertained by the Jehovah's Witnesses who called. I'm terrible at getting rid of such people - I get the fact that I'm a Christian and belong to a Baptist church out there and then see what tack they take.
This lot tried talking about the name of the LORD as written in the Bible, and why you don't see Jehovah written in the Bible anymore. *shrugs* Unfortunately for them, I'd already heard both reasons they gave and don't see why, if you show respect in the use thereof, it matters whether His name is written the LORD, I AM, Father, the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, Jesus, the Prince of Peace, or the Holy Spirit. Which name is used where if often important, although neither they nor I went into that, because it can show which aspect of Him is foremost, but the who and how that is being referenced is what's really important, not whether you use YHWH, the LORD, Jehovah or Adonai.
This is not to say that I don't occasionally argue finer points of interpretation at times, because I do quite happily. It's just as I get older and I mellow, some of the specifics become less important in favour of the general.
