lil' theology for ya-ya right

wow-so this week has been rather crazy from the bug jar to hockey to random good movies....I just don't have time to update this thing because I sleep untill I leave the house and I am to tired when I come home---so if this is a little jumbbled its because I'm mad tired and have to get up for soundcheck at 8 tomorrow. So I decided that anytime I am miserable I can blame it on someone named Kevin, take your pick.

So tonight I had a conversation with a friend that seems to be a common conversation in my life recently. I tend to have this common theme of talking with people about Christianity and what makes people be okay to enter heaven. Jesus says "I am the way the truth and the light-no one comes to the father but through me" but what about all the good people-are they just damed while others can say a simple prayer and be forgiven?

I grew up in a Christian home which is probably the major reason I am still a Christian what if I had grown up in a Muslim household. I believe the bible is Gods word thats why I believe the Buddhists are wrong---but they believe what they believe full on as well. I dunno-- I don't want to believe in a God that damns these people but I think I have been taught that thats what needs to happen.

What draws the line--who gets in? Is it as simple as saying I believe in Jesus? What about the person that says they do but beats there kids while the Muslim lives and upright modest life trying to follow Allah?

There is a really really interesting article that I would encourage anyone to read here

I was trying to find some lyrics to a CD I have been listening a lot to. The song is called Beauty Shines off of The Corner Of An Unlit World by Jesse Sprinkle. I can't find the lyrics. Its a great CD-buy it.

anyway-one of the lines is "we live and die on the fuller side of Grace and beauty shines in the back of all you know". Now I have to be careful here because I know Jesse and I don't want to put words or meaning behind what he says but I'm going to do a little cultural observation with what my world view brings to the table.

I just have to wonder if thats true-if grace is what makes this whole thing work but we can't understand it all. There is all this stuff with Plato and "The Beautiful" that I'm not going to try to explain because my grasp on it is shady enough. But gosh--Gods beauty backs everything we know because we can't be separated from his good because we are his creation but because of original sin we have to live in grace.

Sorry if that was way off in left field I'm tired and an ornament just scared the crap out of me because it fell off the tree.

film and pictures

wow so I haven't blogged in awhile. Exam week kinda took it all out of me as it does with everyone. Strange things happen during exam week--someone should document them.

Wow being home is so good. I love my friends at Houghton but gosh just being able to hang out with friends in civilization is amazing.

So yeah. I've been meaning to blog about a conversation I had with Dave 2 weeks ago now. It was really super profound and he gets all the credit. Every time I talk to this guy I realize how brilliant he is and how much I have to learn.

So we were talking about film and pictures and two things came out.

1) Pictures are so interesting because that moment in time will never happen again. I never really thought about that. Pictures are totally different than film because film always keeps on going. You capture more than that instant. A really interesting video I saw was made with pictures but had the feeling of film because it kept the story going there was progression but it captured little moments in time.

2) We were talking about film and stuff and I was asking him how we could make a moment in film. Like how do you capture everything in a single moment. I have always wondered that- like how would I make this moment in my life significant to other people. He was telling me how this one director said he makes 2 minutes movies. I guess his films are like 3 hours long. I never really thought about that. How every movie you watch leads up to one significant moment (or several) the only way we think a moment is significant is to spend time with the characters. Its so interesting that in our human capacity we can re-create moments but to re-create a 2 min movement or create a feeling we need hours.

Anyway I just never really thought about that before and I thought it was interesting. Could be because I am a film nerd like him tho. Who knows.