We are soon to be beekeepers.
Roy’s father and maternal grandmother had backyard hives, and so he has absorbed some beekeeping lore from them.
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We are soon to be beekeepers.
While I believe in hell, I simply cannot believe that people are condemned to hell because they have not believed in Christ. Christ himself did not say that.
Acts 10: 34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism 35 but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.
Romans 2:6 6 God “will repay each person according to what they have done.” 7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. 8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. 9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; 10 but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 11 For God does not show favoritism.”
I am aware that on this point alone I diverge from the standard evangelical interpretation of these Scripture–and on this point, I have always diverged from it.
I simply cannot believe that God will condemn the many kind, gentle, lovely people I have met on my travels who have never heard about Christ to torment.
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Irene’s (in red) 12th birthday party in our conservatory |
Fab, busy fine-tuned day. Got Zoe off to the Lake District for a week’s post-GCSE holiday–9 teens together in the Lakes, absolutely no adults. Fingers crossed! Transported Irene to a friend’s iceskating party & back, then on to drinks to celebrate the wedding of lovely Lesley Fellows, blogger extraordinaire (revdlesley.net) and Alan Crawley. And then gardening in late June’s golden light!
Imae: Joyce Kimball Smith |
Roy and I were chatting with someone who’d worked as a psychologist. After an hour or so together, he guessed that on the Belbin Personality Inventory, I would be a Planter, and Roy would be a Completer/ Finisher.
Circumcision of the Heart |
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17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; 18 if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; 19 if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— 21 you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? 24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
Circumcision of the Heart |
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17 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; 18 if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; 19 if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— 21 you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? 24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”