Despite the crazy name which I don't quite get- NOOMA is the new black in the emerging church. I have so far only seen a few of the dvds but I just discovered I can watch them online too, on a tiny windows media screen on the nooma.com website.
001 Rain is my favourite. It is raw and honest, unafraid to acknowledge the mysteries of life and God. It spoke to my heart, with the story of how my God is longing for me to come to him with all my junk and screw ups. In the midst of the reality of the storm around my heavenly Dad is able to see the way ahead if only I let myself be held by him.
Watch it now
Tuesday, October 17
Thursday, October 12
Liberty and heaven
It's been a while I know, but you can let your breath go and read on, I'm still in blogland.
Today in my philosophy tutorial we were discussing John S. Mill and his theories on the rights and liberties that we hold according to his utilitarian principles. We started discussing true events that have happened and what right does anyone else have to interfer with someone's liberty to, say... harm themselves, take drugs or commit adultery if no one ever finds out. Interesting stuff huh!
In my opinion utilitarianism is a flawed theory, because of the stock standard arguments against it such as the unpredictability of the future and the difficulty in measuring 'happiness'. I do think he has a point on liberty though - If I had no liberty I would not be me, I would have no personality, expression and I would be a controlled robot. Which brings me to thinking about this gift from our creator of choice (liberty to choose) and this is what has caused so much mess on our planet. To think that if we had no choice we would be living in some paradise but the at the same time it would be unenjoyable because we would not have the option of leaving the paradise. If this is the case then I start thinking - what's heaven going to be like?? If it's "paradise" there and we are made perfect then does this mean that our freedom to choose has been removed?? Or is it because we become all-knowing that we in no way want to choose the 'wrong' action? If we can still choose and we choose 'wrong' then do we fall from heaven into some hell or is there imperfection in heaven still?
Woooa, when I started writing I hadn't thought of all those questions! Tell me what you think about my ponderings...
Today in my philosophy tutorial we were discussing John S. Mill and his theories on the rights and liberties that we hold according to his utilitarian principles. We started discussing true events that have happened and what right does anyone else have to interfer with someone's liberty to, say... harm themselves, take drugs or commit adultery if no one ever finds out. Interesting stuff huh!
In my opinion utilitarianism is a flawed theory, because of the stock standard arguments against it such as the unpredictability of the future and the difficulty in measuring 'happiness'. I do think he has a point on liberty though - If I had no liberty I would not be me, I would have no personality, expression and I would be a controlled robot. Which brings me to thinking about this gift from our creator of choice (liberty to choose) and this is what has caused so much mess on our planet. To think that if we had no choice we would be living in some paradise but the at the same time it would be unenjoyable because we would not have the option of leaving the paradise. If this is the case then I start thinking - what's heaven going to be like?? If it's "paradise" there and we are made perfect then does this mean that our freedom to choose has been removed?? Or is it because we become all-knowing that we in no way want to choose the 'wrong' action? If we can still choose and we choose 'wrong' then do we fall from heaven into some hell or is there imperfection in heaven still?
Woooa, when I started writing I hadn't thought of all those questions! Tell me what you think about my ponderings...
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