Paul's Passing Thoughts

Blank Check Forgiveness Necessarily Calls For The Shutting Down Of All Discernment Blogs

Blank Check Forgiveness Equals Zero Sum Life

Why Church is the Perfect Storm of Evil: Carte Blanche Forgiveness, Part 1

Why Church is the Perfect Storm of Evil: Carte Blanche Forgiveness, Part 2

Romans 12:17-21, More on Forgiveness and Enemies

Let’s Try This Another Way: Forgiveness Only Occurs Among Repentant Believers

Christians Should Know What Forgiveness Is, But…

Forgiveness After Forgiveness?

Carte Blanche Forgiveness is NOT the Goodness of God that Leads Others to Repentance

The Pseudo Worship of the Spiritual Tyrant: When Forgiveness Replaces Reconciliation

Romans 12:14-13:7; Forgiveness

More on Forgiveness: Loving Our Enemies Reopens the Door for Repentance and Reconciliation While God’s Justice Looms

Forgiveness, and How We are All Good Calvinists

Biblical Forgiveness

Are Love and Forgiveness Always the Same Thing?

The “Cross Story” and Sanctified Rape in the Church

How convenient that church can claim to be a friend of science through creationism alone. And, creationism always serves to prove the Bible is scientifically correct, and therefore, the basis for church authority, while giving a wink and a nod to individual autonomy. However, physiology, a subject mostly avoided by the church, raises all kinds of questions found pesky by the church. Martin Luther, in particular, found it to be in league with reason, which he considered to be the enemy of faith, and counterproductive to pain and suffering, which he saw as the primary catalyst for sanctification.

I don’t see nursing and Protestantism fitting together well. Protestantism focuses on the weakness of the individual and subsequent need for seeking ongoing mercy from God. Nurses hardly see weakness as a sin. One does harm, the other invokes needed care.

Protestantism focuses on the inability of mankind. Nurses can’t do that; nursing demands perfection. Someone in nursing school may do really well on a test, say they only missed three questions out of 100 on a test. That’s pretty good. The only problem follows: theoretically, three people could be dead.

In nursing school, we are learning that the initial introduction to a patient must establish trust. What do you think of this as an introduction?

“Hi, my name is Jake, I am the RN that will be working with you pre, and post op. Say, I am seeing on your chart that you are a fellow Baptist, and so am I (does this establish trust via the Christian label?). So, as you know, this is all in God’s hands and I am just a totally depraved sinner saved by grace. By no means put you trust in me, a mere sinner. We want God to get all the glory on the results, so I won’t be very diligent because I don’t want to please God ‘in my own strength.’ I will do the assessment, and then we will pray.'”

Indeed, Protestants should pray much.

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