![]() I have spent the majority of my life as an adulterer towards God chasing after worthless idols, not as an obedient son deserving of His favor. The most apparent reason being that I am just not deserving of His blessing and favor. It almost seems selfish to think that he wants to see me prosper. Matthew 9-11 - Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! - Matthew 9-11I don't know why, but I have always had a hard time seeing God as a father who wants to reward and bless me. Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.2. How does this relate to my daughter? Well, let's just say that my first four weeks with her have helped me to better understand God's will for me as my Father, as outlined in the following scriptures:1. The result of that belief is that they do not pray for healing, and, therefore, don't see people physically healed.Īs outlined in the above example, what we believe about God and His will has astronomic ramifications. Those people don't believe that healing is for today. They believe that healing was only used in the early days of the church to affirm the early apostles and spark the initial growth of the church. There is another segment of the Christian population who does not believe that it is God's will to heal. As a result, they tend to see people healed of diseases and ailments. The result of that belief is that those Christians pray for healing. There is a segment of the Christian population who believe that it is absolutely God's will to heal, and that it is not His will for people to be sick. ![]() ![]() I would just like to point out the repercussions of our beliefs. The point of this post is not to debate this topic, so I am not here to argue either way. For example, one part of God's will that is highly debated among Christian circles is physical healing. Understanding, accepting and BELIEVING God's will is essential to living the life that He has called us to live. Now I do! And I am sure that most parents can understand what I mean.This week, I want to write a little bit about God's will. Up until recently, I wanted to understand, but I had no life experience to help make it tangible. It's hard to describe just how much being a father is helping me to understand God as my Father. My next several posts will probably be centered around my daughter and the things that God is teaching me as I learn to be a father. Thus, it can be viewed as a fictional narrative embodiment of Karen Barad’s theoretical reconfiguration of materiality as discursive and of performativity as a dynamic process of constraining iterative intra-actions rather than of determining interactions.If you happen to be someone who reads this blog regularly, I'm just going to provide some full disclosure here. This same-sex cross-species futuristic love affair that develops across two different space-times succeeds in blurring the boundaries between humans and machines, thus prompting readers to overcome their anthropocentric worldview and to abandon the deep yet narrow concern for the moral and cognitive implications of the humans’ fate at the end of the de-centring process brought about by the posthuman turn, urging them to consider, instead, more significant and wider issues such as accountability and responsibility. ![]() ![]() This paper examines, through the lenses of agential realism, the uncanny sense of posthumanist relational subjectivity that Winterson’s utopia evokes through the twofold romantic encounter between female scientist Billie Crusoe and humanized sherobot Spike. ![]()
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