No Fillers In The Patty Please
Extra Episode 239 with Andy, Jeff, Greg, Paul, and Matt the Producer topics include
- Seahawks
- Burgers
- 1 Corinthians 11 and the Lord’s supper
- How critical should we be of church leaders?
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Interestingly enough, I’m currently studying Social Psychology as part of my undergraduate degree and what Jeff refers to at the beginning of the podcast is actually a psychological occurrence, attributed to something called counterfactual thinking. This is the process of changing, mentally, how an event is thought of through imagining how the event might have gone had things happened differently. This happens typically after a negative event and is stronger the closer to “missing” the negative event we are (so you would regret missing a plane more if you just missed it by 2 minutes rather than by an hour). This can result in a paradoxical effect, where the further away from achieving the goal you are, the happier you are (a bronze medal winner is actually happier than the silver medal winner). So yeah, actually: lose early!
Hanna, I appreciate your comment, “a bronze medal winner is actually happier than the silver medal winner” it’s interesting how a person can be the medalist winner or a spectator and feel that same elation or disappointment, like when the Canuck’s lose by 4 goals right after the 1st period, no big deal, but when the get so close to winning a game and give up a 2 goal lead in the final minute and lose in overtime, ggeeeeeeeeesh, not again…
I want to thank Andy and Jeff in the discussion about Romans and election… no fista cuffs… awesome… After working this through for over a year when this troubled me a few years back, I silently worked it through and must say I still lean to Andy’s argument… Why, though there is tension, yes, but when I look at God’s attributes through out the bible the other passages and the character of God sways me… Much in the way when he says he made us in His image… As a Father, I could never imagine not choosing one of my children, and not the other, regardless of their actions, because of my love for them… Why would I respond in actions different then my Father… When the disciples asked, who the Father was, he responded by saying, John 8:19
Then they asked him, “Where is your father?” “You do not know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
This is lengthy but for me it was important, there are a lot of “whoever believes”… and no “whoever is chosen who believes” …
Mark 16:16
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:18
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.
John 5:24
“Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
John 6:35
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
John 7:38
Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
John 12:44
Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.
John 14:12
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
1 John 5:10
Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son.
God bless …
“As a Father, I could never imagine not choosing one of my children, and not the other” (I meant) As a Father, I could never imagine choosing one of my children, and not the other…