Well it's official. My shoulder will need to be surgically repaired. I have a major tear and a second minor tear of the right rotator cuff that will need repaired with some bone spurs that need to be removed. The Doctor says it will not be without pain and discomfort in a long six month recovery period including therapy. The surgery looks to be on Tuesday, October 19th, at Community hospital in OKC.
This is the sixth individual surgery I will have had in the last three years. This old body getting a bit older and worn down is not fun stuff at all, but, keeping it functioning is the only recourse for me. I refuse to quit repairing it so I can keep getting in our pool, riding my motorcycle, and generally living a slight variation of the Paladin principle [Have bible will travel] and I know some will be far too young to know what that means but I'm not going to explain it. ;)
However...I am going to take a hiatus from blogging for a while. I would imagine it will be at least until the first of the year before I'll be personally ready to take it up again if I ever do at all. I enjoy writing but for some reason when recovering from surgery I don't have the wherewithal to be consistent. The pain and discomfort I am already facing is sapping my creative powers a bit anyway. Besides all that I'm a out of gas as far as words are concerned.
I know this impacts only a very few readers but for some reason those few individuals have become very important to me and I want to be up close and personal with you as a sometimes reader of vtmbottomline. It's kind of funny [weird] how I feel close to some people across this world that I've never even met personally and some that I've renewed relationships with after several years apart all because of the gift of the Internet.
All gifts, even good ones, have their up side and down side. If you don't believe it reread 11 Kings 18 where instructions were given to destroy the brass serpent which originally was a great healing gift from God. I guess that downside comes when we start elevating the gift above the God who gave it. That can even hold true for the gift of a healthy body I suppose. So I'm going to receive my body ANY way it comes good or bad, once I've been responsible in caring for it, and rejoice over the God behind it all.
Oops...a bit of creativity slipping out there. Old habits I guess. Seriously, thanks to all of you for our connectedness and I shall return, the Lord willing and the creek don't rise.
Paul B.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
FAULTY CHROMOSOMES
A good theologian and sometimes commenter to vtmbottomline is lin whose blog is here...http://coffeetradernews.blogspot.com/
You will enjoy what he says on his blog which I'm reproducing and linking to below. Enjoy..
Complementarian Genetics 101
Based on 1 Timothy 2:9-15 and what we know from biology, the following is Complementarian Genetics 101:
The “x chromosome” carries the “deception gene.”
The “y chromosome,” however, carries the “anti-deception gene.”
So if a person has two x chromosomes, and is therefore a female, they are by nature and physiology “[completely] deceivable” (εξαπαταω).
However, if a person has one x chromosome and one y chromosome, and is therefore a male, they have a genetic defense against being completely deceived.
It is for this reason that only those with both an x and a y chromosome are to be entrusted with positions of authority in the church, and only they can teach both men and women.
And I would ask: If this is not Complementarian Genetics, why isn’t it?
HT: Eric W at http://www.patheos.com/community/jesuscreed/2010/09/13/a-question-for-the-gospel-coalition/
You will enjoy what he says on his blog which I'm reproducing and linking to below. Enjoy..
Complementarian Genetics 101
Based on 1 Timothy 2:9-15 and what we know from biology, the following is Complementarian Genetics 101:
The “x chromosome” carries the “deception gene.”
The “y chromosome,” however, carries the “anti-deception gene.”
So if a person has two x chromosomes, and is therefore a female, they are by nature and physiology “[completely] deceivable” (εξαπαταω).
However, if a person has one x chromosome and one y chromosome, and is therefore a male, they have a genetic defense against being completely deceived.
It is for this reason that only those with both an x and a y chromosome are to be entrusted with positions of authority in the church, and only they can teach both men and women.
And I would ask: If this is not Complementarian Genetics, why isn’t it?
HT: Eric W at http://www.patheos.com/community/jesuscreed/2010/09/13/a-question-for-the-gospel-coalition/
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