Q&A: Round 1 (and some pictures)

Just a couple tonight.

Travis asks . . .

“What is your current favorite disc to spin… errr… album to queue up on your iPod?”

Right now, I’d say that my favorites are The Light Divides by Winterpills and (no surprise) Derek Webb’s The Ringing Bell. I’ve been spinning Shearwater (thanks, Travis), Eluvium, and Half-Handed Cloud quite a bit lately, as well.

Of course, you could just look at my Last.FM music profile.

Dad asks

“Is the evil in the world a before the foundation of the world type predestined, God determined set of events?”

Yes.

Okay, more than that would probably be helpful. How about some Westminster Confession of Faith goodness?

WCF III.1: God from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will, freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass: yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.

This is an admittedly difficult and funny-tasting pill to swallow, even for those of us who love Westminster, Calvin, and all that good “reformed” stuff. God ordains all acts, even those that HE has called evil. But at the same time, he’s not the author of sin, and he does not “offer violence” upon the will of those who commit such acts. Huh? Maybe I’ll dedicate a post to this one of these days.

Round 2 tomorrow. Meanwhile, have some pictures.

(This is what I wore to church tonight.)