The Hip Opinion

Well we all got problems don’t we? A quick surf of the net or a newscast on TV will abundantly confirm this.

I like to ponder stuff you know? I like to try and “figure it all out”. And wonder what a “Higher Power” should be doing about all this.  He is supposed to be all powerful right? Can’t He fix this world that we humans have totally screwed up?

Or is it up to us? Religious people tend to be just trying to hold on until they get to the great by and by. Right? I mean, I have heard it said. “This is not our home, our home is in heaven”

Jesus is coming, right? Could be today! But, what if it’s not for another 50 millennia? Hey, that’s a long time.  There’s gonna be a lot of generations of people that have to try and make due until they get to heaven. Meanwhile the world get’s worse.

Big Global Problems

• Hunger and malnutrition
• Climate Change
• Conflicts
• Financial instability
• Water and Sanitation
• Subsidies and Trade Barriers
• Population/migration
• Communicable diseases
• Education
• Governance and corruption

What a list.  those are real problems.  Who is gonna fix this mess?

I have heard Bible teachers say that this “fallen world is too far gone to be fixed. It will take a complete regeneration from God to fix this. ”

Maybe. But, perhaps talking about it would help to get ideas to give the Big Guy a hand in it. Most of us have children and grandchildren right? Each of us do our part?

I’m just a middle aged hipster. I probably got a few years before I go to the pearly gates.  Perhaps, there is SOMETHING I could do to make a difference here and now. You dig?

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Who goes to hell? Well I suppose it’s people that deserve it huh? We all know or have heard of people that certainly deserve to go to hell for the terrible things they have done. It is, of course, assumed that Hitler is obviously in hell..

But what about that nice gay guy down the street. He is a really nice guy huh? But according to “The Bible” he is damned. And so is the new Hindu guy you met in your new humanities class at collage… He is “damned”

How do I know? The “Bible” tells me so right? See here:

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS. (Matthew 25:41)

 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night… (Revelation 14:11),

Oh my… There it is. There’s gonna be a lot of folks in the fire… With my mediocrity in obedience and “Back Sliding Baptist” ways I question rather I’ll make it either… Oh I suppose I could repent on my death bed… (If I have time)

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• What’s Wrong with Organized Religion?
• Top 10 Worldly Problems. Solutions?
• Who Goes to Hell? Part 1
• Is Smoking Cigarettes Bad for You?
• Is Jesus God?

In a word: YES! Smoking is bad for you…Ask any smoker…They (we) all know this. And we are all trying to quit. That would be almost 50 million of us that know it’s bad… And yet we keep doing it… What a trip!

How do you know it’s bad? It says (in effect) that it will kill you right on the side of the pack… Smoking contains carbon monoxide… Isn’t that deadly?

Many cigarette companies offer little pamphlets in the pack or carton that offer websites and tools to help you quit… Perhaps even THEY know it’s bad for you. Go figure… Or it may be that they have been in hot water before because of lawsuits. They knew it kills people and is very addictive…And they made it more addictive. So are they responsible? I don’t know..We smokers already know it’s bad for you… Right?

Gee after typing all that I need a smoke…

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