Jots and Tittles

Huzzah, it's snowing!  I love snow.  Even though I have to drive in it.  And it's a Tuesday, and Tuesdays are always good.  Well, Tuesdays from about 8:30 onward, anyway. ^_^  Today has been a good day, even though I'm really tired.  I don't think I'll go to Old C's tonight, because I need sleep.  But on the plus side, I BSed a quiz pretty well (I think), my writing arguments class is going well (shocking!), adolescent's lit was... well, I'm not sure, to be honest, since I quit paying attention halfway through so I could write a story instead. >.>  Ahem.  But then after school I got to meet with Rich, the senior pastor up here at First Pres, and we had a really good conversation about the whole Voices of Sophia mess and what is being done to bring the church back to orthodoxy.  I found out that I really know a lot more about this business than I thought I did.  And it's kind of cool that I was bringing up ideas that he hadn't thought of before.  Like how one of the problems with the Sophia people's argument that the Atonement isn't valid because it paints God as an abusive parent (grr!  no!) is that they're confusing justice with mercy.  Justice, in and of itself, is harsh and it certainly isn't a "nice" thing.  If God was only just, and that justice wasn't tempered with mercy, then God would have let us all burn in Hell, since that's what we deserve.  In fact, that wouldn't be punishment enough.  "For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God."  That sort of thing.  But that's not how it happened, because God's justice is tempered with mercy, and therefore he sent his son, his beloved son, who could handle the punishment, to take it for us.  That's not an abusive parent!  That's love at its finest!  And Rich brought up a good point, too, that I hadn't thought of, because he said that the Sophia women are operating from the faulty notion that all suffering is inherently evil.  Which it isn't; suffering can be (and is) redemptive, if we let God work through it. 

Oh, and we talked about the Confessing Churches, and how our church joined (glorious!), and what our church believes.  It was just all so good.  God is the awesomest.  Wow.

So, yes.  It's been an excellent day.  Truly excellent.  And now I'm off to read some C. S. Lewis before I go to the Source, because I can use it as reading for class!  ^_^  Did I mention that today was a good day? 

-Jaya-