At the garden of Eden, God created humanity, breathed into it, a part of the divine. The connection was made with humanity with God walking in the garden to meet and talk with Adam and Eve. As a result of the fall, the humanity that was residing in flesh created from dust was to return to dust because of the knowledge of evil, ie the presence of sin with its decaying power. The divine nature that was within us, the Spirit man, was to be lost forever apart from the body of flesh. When Jesus died, He preached to those residing in this spiritual wasteland.

In this season of Lent, it was in the searing heat of the desert that the weakness of humanity was most profound – felt through hunger and thirsts. The desert was a place of death, where nothing grows, a direct contrast to the Garden Eden which flowed the river of God. Humanity was to tend the garden but the fall resulted in the emptiness of decay in the futility of the desert. Continue reading →

With such provocative headlines as “Which Of These Celebs Might Secretly Be Jesus?’ and ‘Jesus 2.0: What Can We Expect? and a picture showing “Jesus”, with a sub machine gun with a large strap of ammo, the Singapore FHM magazine withdrew its latest magazine after complaints from the National Council of Churches in Singapore. They were accused of making fun of Jesus and causing serious offence and hurting the sensitivities of Singaporean christians.

Whilst the FHM magazine was offensive, the Christians in Singapore shouldn’t have been reading such racy magazine with semi nude women posing front cover. They should have called for a ban of the magazine because of its semi nude photos since they were perturbed by the male upper torsos at Orchard in the giant ads by Abercrombie and Fitch Continue reading →

Gen 17:4 As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

Gen 6:4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

For some the battles between Abrahamic faiths are rather ironic for they say they are of the same God. However, Abraham was the Father of many nations ie Israel and the Arab nations have a common ancestor rather than necessarily worshiping the same God of Abraham or doing what Abraham would have done in their own faith walk.

Our spiritual family lineage is of great blessings but it does not mean much if our faith tradition doesn’t build on the faith of Abraham. By the time of Jesus, the Jews wanted to stand on the blessings of Abraham of whose covenant with God was a matter of grace, but yet they were living their faith based on the Mosaic Covenant which was essentially blessings by the good religious works and morality. Continue reading →

Gen 6:3 And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive[a] with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

Bishop Yvette Flunder, a Lesbian Pentecostalist Pastor said that as she got older, the less she was certain. In my journey of Christian Faith, the opposite occurred. In the mega churches in Singapore, I had many questions which often went unanswered as I read the bible or doing bible studies in cell groups. I had a questioning spirit with a seeking heart to know more because I sought the fellowship and communion with Jesus Christ.

Maybe there were no answers to many questions. However, in my faith journey towards accepting my sexual orientation, many questions and answers came because I had to humble myself to walk in close communion with the Holy Spirit. When you loose everything, it is when God becomes clearer. The bible was written not from a high places of society but by those at the edge of faith and society. Continue reading →

Gen 6:1,2 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

Gen 6:4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Jude 1:7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

In the religious and social journey after the flood, we see a profound fear that God will destroy mankind with a mentality for women to cover up as a matter of religious duty in case angels were tempted again. It was heterosexual sex producing strange flesh that caused the destruction of the world into a slippery slope of immorality. Continue reading →

Gen 6:1,2 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

Gen 6:4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

We often quickly go passed the story of the flood and assigned it to folklore for it just doesn’t make sense why God could be seemingly so cruel. We focused instead on the rainbow, being the covenant of grace. However, the impact of the flood left a profound mark on mankind and religious faiths.

Firstly, God is indeed a covenant God. He works on the basis of covenants whether conditional or unconditional, each with two parties, an initiator and a receipient with applicability requirements. There are four major covenants in the bible:-

• Noahic covenant – Unconditional, applicable to humanity
• Abrahamic covenant – Unconditional, applicable to Jews
• Mosaic covenant – Conditional, applicable to humanity
• Gospel – Unconditional, applicable by faith

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