Contention Four-Syllable Prompts

Please forgive the following list of theme or topic prompts for this blog. They will (presumably) make more sense later.

1. Storm of the Eye 2. Fear Need Want God 3. Mercy Play Work 4. Sin Sincerely 5. Life is Past Change 6. The One-Role God 7. Across God’s Edge 8. Not Natural 9. We’re Not Like Us 10. Dead Trees Walking 11. All Indulgence 12. Being of Pain 13. Co-Editors 14. Expanditure 15. Pillars of Fear 16. Hell’s Not a Tale 17. Non-Unbelief 18. Dispense with This 19. Pray Like Jesus 20. Lord Abraham 21. Mountains Climb Us. 22. My Eye, God’s Glass. 23. I Want His World 24. Sex is What’s Left 25. With Me One Hour 26. Which of You Will 27. Reckoning’s Realm 28. Angels Up Down 29. I Speak Nonsense 30. Truths Only Teach 31. Context with Words 32. Always Always 33. Living the End 34. Sired Not Twice 35. No Nearer Peace 36. Would Have Told You 37. Piercing the Mind 38. Buried Alive 39. The Primal Cry 40. Burning with Salt 41. You Can’t Be One 42. You Can’t Have That 43. The Empty Whale 44. The Judas Goad 45. Father of Sons 46. Stretching the Time 47. Not Your Perfect 48. Torrent of Gold 49. The Naked Saint 50. The Waiting Saint. 51. I Spoke, I Lied 52. Refrain Retain 53. Always a King 54. The Dying Rock 55. Be Choose Choose Be 56. Do My Damnedest 57. Give the Business 58. Grace in Your Face 59. All You Can’t Do 60. Will a Miracle 61. Fisher’s Dozen 62. Born Yet Again 63. Pardoned Before 64. Named For the Shame 65. Jesus’ Skin 66. Said He’s Not God 67. Want’s Perfection

Earliest Scriptural Premise: Mercilessness, Not Sin

The declarations featured in this blog are derived from Christian traditions, but such traditions stripped to the core premises of the existence of Jesus of Nazareth, the presentation of his statements and actions in the standard four gospels, and the necessity of crediting his spiritual contentions if those gospels are to be taken as substantive.

In short, the Jesus of the canonical gospels existed, and he existed in the fullness of the divine.

In regard to “Earliest Scriptural Premise”, it is the premise of this blog that the thrust of Jesus’ ministry is aimed not at the problem of sin—so often taken as the root of humanity’s alienation from God—but at the problem of mercilessness. The earliest humans were not sinless, yet they were in communion with God. That communion was broken when Eve and Adam first began to exercise judgment—invariably imperfect judgment—against human beings. Eve and Adam, in other words, had eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The story of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis—the first book of the Bible—is logically the presumptive Scriptural foundation of Jesus’ exhortation “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” (Matthew 7:1, KJV)

Roused, Readied, Reaped blog description

Roused, Readied, Reaped blog description

Our lives last until the first moment we condemn a person.  For the rest of our mortal days, we choose between the salvation of wakeful death and the damnation of slumbering death.