Twin Mass Shootings Hit U S

It's as of America were in the climactic throes of some horrible disease of violence and hatred.  Last Sunday it was a mass shooting at the Garlic festival in Gilroy.  Yesterday at 10:39 there was a call of an active shooter at a Wall Mart in El Paso in the Mexican district only a few blocks away from the border.  This shooter just turned 21 and he put a manifesto on line a few minutes before the shooting and they wanted to make sure it was genuine.  It is, and the guy admitted that his mission is to shoot as many Mexicans as he could.  He gave up without a fight and no shots were exchanged with the police.  He was taken alive.  He killed twenty people and put 26 in the hospital meaning that 46 people were hit from his AK 47.   Patrick Crusius is from Allan, Texas near Dallas and it’s 600 miles away.  He had to plan for this shooting.  Yesterday afternoon they had Governor Abbot and the major and the chief of police in a major press conference where they were still non-committal.  Nobody wants to hear what the president has to say.  He’s the one who created a climate in which this violence can occur.   Then this morning there were reports in the morning news of a second shooting.  This one was in the entertainment district of Dayton, Ohio.  There are a lot of theaters, bars and restaurants and nine people were killed in this mass shooting.  27 people were injured.  The cops only took a minute to respond to this shooting and the guy was shot dead.  That’s the expeditious way to solve a problem.  This guy was wearing body armor and had extra magazines of amo with him.  This guy was ready for a protracted fight and if the cops hadn’t taken him out when they did, he would have killed a whole lot more people.  Strangely the news has tended to focus on the El Paso shooting, but the press conference they just had on Leo Laporte was on the Dayton shooting.  The funny thing is that early last evening I prayed a prayer to God “and if anybody else is preparing to do a mass shooting like around here or something I pray that they decide not to do it”.  Should I now thank God for keeping me safe?  Two things pop out at me.  The one line of course is, “Well it’s too soon to start being political and talking about gun bills.  Wait till things settle down a few weeks”.  The problem here is this was the 250^th mass shooting we’ve had this year and there is just no time for things to “settle down”.   The other, and I expect Paul and Judy to use this line, is the line about “Well you can’t blame trump or anything; this is just another sign that we are in the ”End Times” and as such is to be expected.   That free pass card God has been using for forty years has long expired.  You can’t use that “end times” crap as an excuse any more.  We have all grown old waiting for the “end times” to be resolved.  I’ve heard this line since I was in my twenties and I’m an old man now.  Hopefully Joe Biden will be elected president next year.  We need a man of calm disposition to tranqualize the American public with soothing words. 

Theologically we are to assume as students that everything a theology teacher says we can believe with an unshakable certainty.  Therefore when said teacher says that Jesus died for our sins volentarily and said teacher says that Christ was always omnicient then we can believe that.  Since Jesus was God he was always superior to us and knows more than we do at any given time.  Then how come some preachers say that Jesus had to "trust God for the promise of a resurrection" as though it weren't a certainty.  It's like Stephan signing all his property to his wife right after they get married "trusting in her" that said arrangement is only "temporary" and done for a legal manuver.   I bring this up because in Jesus Christ Superstar Jesus has his hour of doubt before going to the cross not being sure that it's the will of God.  This is a theological impossability.   We also know from theology school that if God never created a thing- - not the universe or stars or us- - then his worth would not diminish one but.  God is also omni-value, if you will, in addition to all of the other omnis God has.  Therefore why would God "sacrifice" his son to die for the sins of people who if they never existed, God's glory would not be subtracted one bit?   I have one more for you.  This odious "agregate worth" doctrine.  This is like the U S economy.  The agribate worth of the economy is constantly rising because of all of the rich people in the world throwing off the economic indicators with their near infinite worth.  Meanwhile us peons out here remain poor.  It's like this Simpson's episode where there was this baseball team full of duds.  But also Daryl Strawberry was on the team.  Every time he gets up to bat he hits a home run.  If you were to acquire that team you would be doing it to get Daryl Strawberry.  The others would quickly discard.  So it is when scripture says that God so lover the world that he sent his only son into the world that whoever believes in him should not die but have everlasting life.  Chuck Smith puts it this way.  Sure God loved the world in the agragate but it loved it because of the treasure in it.  Jesus died for the treasure in the world, which may not include you and me but only those "elect" fundamentalists, who are sure of who they are.  They think they are perfect it.  If these people were ever to ask for forgiveness from you your response should be to tell them "Well I would forgive you, but it's awfully hard to forgive someone who thinks they are already perfect".  (Selah)  It is said that there are no moral requirements to becoming a Born Again Christian.  But if we don't have the required "Faith" we are "Baad!" and therefor for this reason to be condemned as not worthy- - - because we "rejected" God.  Christians love to talk a lot about rejection they have suffered.  And yet as Trump conservatives they are busily REJECTING the majority of Americans who "in the agrigate" are not necessarly white or married or over 35 or Bible Thumping Gun Toting red blooded Americans from the heartland.  Pardon me if I said the same thing in the previous posting.  Did it ever occur to these people that "building up your faith muscles" so you can "believe God for more" is not in the Bible?   Being counted WORTHY not for your deeds but rather what you have been GIVEN is not my idea of true morality or virtue.  As soon as you can get the stench of Trump off of religion, I might we willing to take a second look at it sometime.