Soil from Stone: Regular Guy

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Doctrines vs Commandments

Exodus 20:10 (ESV) ...but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.

Many people will replace God's commandments with man-made doctrines, and then not even follow the man-made doctrine.

Unhappy Halloween?

If you think I accused anyone of paganism with this comic, that's just your guilty conscience talking.

James vs Paul?

Sometimes, I don't think people really think through the implications of their doctrines.

Pastor McJudgey

If Colossians 2:16 really meant what most people believe it means, why don't they apply the same standard to alcohol, dancing, smoking, witches covens, and cannibalism that they do to ham and the Sabbath?

Colossians 2:16 (ESV) Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.

What a Paradise this is!

If this is the New Heaven and New Earth, I think something went wrong.

Love is Love, man!

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

1 John 5:2 ESV

Trust me, bro

I encounter this claim all the time. People who make it must be seriously dedicated to their biases to find this "implication" anywhere in the Bible.

1050 new ways to do legalism

Happy Sukkot!

Like Enoch?

The only complete manuscripts of the first book of Enoch (the only one that has even the remotest claim to legitimacy) are in Ge'ez (Coptic), which Enoch definitely did not speak in 3000 BC. Only a handful of pre-Christian fragments exist in Aramaic (also not Enoch's language) and one or two very small fragments in Hebrew.

If First Enoch represents the actual words of Noah's great grandfather, it is--at best--a translation of a
translation: at least two layers of translator bias between us and Enoch.

Capital punishment?

That was just for the Jews!

Matthew 28:18-20 (ESV) And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. [19] Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, [20] teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Stop oppressing me, man!

Introducing Regular Guy and Friends

Regular Guy's theology isn't deep or complicated. He just takes what Jesus and the Apostles said at face value and believes them. He gets a lot of pushback from people want to pile a lot of nuance and systematic theology onto the Scriptures.

Here are the characters in Regular Guy's life so far: