Fizzle

Wow, our first hurricane. Actually, it was a tropical depression. I don't know why it's called a depression, cause the folks here in Florida are celebrating and they are not depressed by Ernesto. It rained some last night and then again this morning. I was indoors most of the day so I didn't see much outside. I don't think it did much so I didn't miss a thing. There was a lot of activity because of the storm. I read that Lowes sold 30,000 bottles of water on Monday. That's a lot. I guess our meteorologists have to warn us because if they don't then everyone is mad. Yet, all the stores where goods are sold that will benefit people during a hurricane made out well. This was a little like a coming snow storm in Jersey. People go out a buy supplies as though they were going to be stuck inside for days. Oh well.

I was thinking today about original sin. I don't know why but I was. I 'm not sure whether or not Adam and Eve passed on some genetic predisposition to sin or not. Of course it would explain why everyone sins. However, the problem isn't really in the doctrine of original sin but rather in applying the doctrine. Once you come up with the doctrine then children (actually infants) are suddenly lost. Yet the Scripture requires faith to be saved. If a child cannot believe then whether or not they have original sin doesn't matter, God has placed them in a safe position. Instead religions have to change baptism (really immersion - Romans 6:3-6) to sprinkling to accommodate infants.

Then of course there is the thought that people are so depraved by original sin that they cannot even respond to God, so religions come up with the quickening of the Holy Spirit before conversion. The quickening supposedly makes it possible for the sinner to respond. Yet in Scripture God requires humans to respond to him. Humanity walked away from God of their own free will, so Scripture seems to indicate that God wants us to come back of our own free will. That makes sense to me. This false application is like forcing someone to love you. Surely God doesn't do that. I don't see it in Scripture.

So that's my theological thought for the day. It was a good day. I like being here. I hope God allows us to stay for a long time.