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Hello there.

We decided that we were long overdue for a Gong Show… so we did one!

We get under the fingernails and discuss the recent posts on the UFaith site. Lots of interesting discussion.

Strong Caution: The post-show content contains a discussion that some may find offensive due to it’s mature nature.

[podcast]http://unbelievablefaith.com/wp-content/audio/UFaithEp028.mp3[/podcast]

Mass: We Pray – The Video Game.

J.C. sent me this link to a interesting new game for the Wii. Thanks J.C.!

Can/should church be simulated in the home through a TV screen?

Is this just a gimmick intended to make a company money, or is there a place for this?

More importantly, what would a Pentecostal Wii game be like?

I thought this was kind of an interesting warning label (from blogs.discovermagazine.com ).

Comments?

Karl Barth is great. He always challenges and this quote is no different:

“It is not the right human thoughts about God which form the content of the Bible, but the right divine thoughts about men. The Bible tells us not how we should talk with God but what he says to us; not how we find the way to him, but how he has sought and found the way to us; not the right relation in which we must place ourselves to him, but the covenant which he has made with all who are Abraham’s spiritual children and which he has sealed once and for all in Jesus Christ.” The Word of God and the Word of Man, pg.43.

Thoughts?

Wally sent a few of us this comic recently. As always, the comments below are almost as enjoyable as the orig content.

Non Sequitur, October 29, 2009 — UCLICK GoComics.com.

Hey All,

So, as I read more and more theology, I find more and more subjects to whet my intellectual appetite as well as confound my thinking. Here today, I present you with one such subject:

Divine Suffering. Did God suffer? Can God suffer? Now, the obvious remark is, of course God suffered on the cross. If we want to avoid all kinds of bad theology, in particular, theology that denigrates or completely undermines the truly radical notion of incarnation as God becoming flesh (!) then we must not say that Jesus just “pretended” or “appeared” to suffer. However, the traditional doctrine about Jesus is that he had two natures in himself in perfect unity, the divine nature, and the human nature. This is what theology calls the hypostatic union. So, the question is, was it only Jesus’ human nature that suffered, or can/did the divine nature suffer and if so, what does this tells us about God? Implications might include:

Is God unchanging? If so, how can he suffer?

Does God contain in herself the fulness of everything? If so, how could God experience a lack?

Discuss please.

Z