https://usgraceforce.com/jesus....-and-all-good-shephe

https://thehill.com/opinion/he....althcare/553739-cdc-

On this episode of "I Told You So, with Mike Rowe," we begin with a brilliant observation from the attached article by an excellent writer named Kevin Williamson.

Kevin writes...
"What human beings are genuinely compelled by is not rules but allegiance.

“Do I wear a mask in this situation?” is not the question that really drives people — the question that drives us is, “What kind of person am I if I wear a mask in this situation, and what would it say about me if I didn’t?”

For those keeping track at home, I wrote the same thing on this page, back in March of 2020.

"Wearing masks will prove to be very tricky," I wrote, "because for many, masks will come to signify all sorts of things that have nothing to do with science.

Just watch.

Those who now demand universal mask compliance in the name of safety, will insist on wearing them long after medical science says they aren't necessary."

I was shooting in Phoenix last week, when the CDC announced that people who have been vaccinated didn't need to wear a mask indoors.

Guests were delighted, but the hotel where I was staying simply couldn't get their minds around it. So corporate simply ignored the new guidance

. The staff kept yelling at guests to "mask up" when they walked through the lobby, but many of the guests refused.
In the restaurant, the manager reminded us, in a somewhat exasperated tone, to "mask up" on the way to the table.

"For the love of God," I said. "Why? We've all been vaccinated, the table is ten feet away, and nobody seated is wearing a mask."

The manager didn't have an answer. But the attached article does. Give it a look. Lot's of food for thought...

https://www.nationalreview.com..../2021/05/the-mask-is

DEBUNKING EHRMAN: ‘We Don’t Have Copies of the Copies of the Copies of the Originals’

"Not only do we not have the originals, we don’t have the first copies of the originals. We don’t even have copies of the copies of the originals, or copies of the copies of the copies of the originals. What we have are copies made later—much later. In most instances, they are copies made many centuries later. And these copies all differ from one another, in many thousands of places." - Agnostic NT textual scholar Dr. Bart D. Ehrman

LEARN MORE ...
https://christianpublishinghou....se.co/2017/05/08/deb

DEBUNKING EHRMAN: ‘We Don’t Have Copies of the Copies of the Copies of the Originals’

"Not only do we not have the originals, we don’t have the first copies of the originals. We don’t even have copies of the copies of the originals, or copies of the copies of the copies of the originals. What we have are copies made later—much later. In most instances, they are copies made many centuries later. And these copies all differ from one another, in many thousands of places." - Agnostic NT textual scholar Dr. Bart D. Ehrman

LEARN MORE ...
https://christianpublishinghou....se.co/2017/05/08/deb

PREPARING FOR CHRISTIANITY: Central Position of Christ in the History of the World

To see clearly the relation of the Christian religion to the preceding history of mankind, and to appreciate its vast influence upon all future ages, we must first glance at the preparation which existed in the political, moral, and religious condition of the world for the coming of our Savior.

CONTINUE READING ....
https://christianpublishinghou....se.co/2021/05/16/pre

PREPARING FOR CHRISTIANITY: Central Position of Christ in the History of the World

To see clearly the relation of the Christian religion to the preceding history of mankind, and to appreciate its vast influence upon all future ages, we must first glance at the preparation which existed in the political, moral, and religious condition of the world for the coming of our Savior.

CONTINUE READING ....
https://christianpublishinghou....se.co/2021/05/16/pre

Who Were Christianity’s First to Third Centuries Non-Christian Witnesses for the Historicity of Jesus Christ?

As Christian apologetic evangelists who must reason, explain, prove, persuade, and defend, Christians show that Jesus Christ did live by using sources other than the Bible and the writing of the early Church Fathers. For those who question Christian the authority of the New Testament documents, examine carefully what the secular historians and other writers have written that, in fact, corroborates the testimony of the Bible.

LEARN MORE ...
https://christianpublishinghou....se.co/2020/06/21/who

Who Were Christianity’s First to Third Centuries Non-Christian Witnesses for the Historicity of Jesus Christ?

As Christian apologetic evangelists who must reason, explain, prove, persuade, and defend, Christians show that Jesus Christ did live by using sources other than the Bible and the writing of the early Church Fathers. For those who question Christian the authority of the New Testament documents, examine carefully what the secular historians and other writers have written that, in fact, corroborates the testimony of the Bible.

LEARN MORE ...
https://christianpublishinghou....se.co/2020/06/21/who

Day 136

Catch up if you’re behind and take some notes of your pastor’s sermon, if you’re a note taking person. If you have any favorite verses, or questions, from the passages we read this last week share them in the comments!

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