Day Bidet #77

And sorrow and mourning shall flee away:

1. “[W]e also have to monitor when our systems of interpretation are being privileged over hearing the Word of God afresh.”
2. Clown World (buy hey, America’s got talent!). Clown World. Clown World. Clown World. Demon World (the two always go hand in hand). Demon World—homeschool your kids.
3. “Testing is a motif that runs through the whole narrative of God. … Affliction tests, probes, forming; it is character formation.” (Related—Tozer: “What pressure and suffering [Jesus] endured grew out of His position as the world’s sin bearer; they were never the result of moral uncertainty or spiritual maladjustment.”)
4. “The American university does not have a pope. It might as well have a pope. It is as ideologically uniform as the College of Cardinals…. What is up with that?” (Related.)
5. “[That] the quotation goes back to Jesus is clear from the intentional wordplay between ‘son’ and ‘stone’, ben and aben in Aramaic.”
6. “One cannot begin it too soon.”
7. Donne: “No man is an Island, intire of it selfe; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.” (Related.)

More:

Where’s the lie? Where’s the lie? Where’s the lie(s)? Where’s the lie? Where’s the lie?

Where was the Garden of Eden?

Para bellum? (Related, but good news. Related, but…not good news.)

Jeremiah 2.5, 11-13: “Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in Me, that they are gone far from Me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? … Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but My people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”