Griffith Obsevatory + Sushi @ East

Hi Everyone! Sorry for not posting as often as we should. Well, our desktop crashed and we just got a new laptop which I am still setting up. This picture was taken at the Griffith J Griffith Obsevatory overlooking the Hollywood Sign. Yup... we are your typical small eyed Asian couple... well... the sun was really burning our pupils so we had to keep our delicate eyes protected! HAHAHA!


This is Alina Chau and Anusha. Alina is an amazing artist who could not help but sketch and paint as we were up there. You can find out more about her sketches and designs at http://alinanimation.blogspot.com/ Anusha is an architectural lighting designer like Crystal and her colleague, Shigeki. On the subject of Mr. Fujii, he had a sushi meal (what else?!) at East Yakitori. To find out what I was doing before they came from the office, do check out
http://jawn-tze-hin-lim.blogspot.com/2007/02/where-can-i-see-this.html

CROOKED CUTS

This is a GREAT LIST of Techniques to Misunderstand the Bible. I just thought I share this. Amazing how we can conveniently apply much of this to our advantage when we do not want to hear what God wants to say to us. Well, I hope this would be helpful.

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“CROOKED CUTS”

By Richard Mayhue
Grace Community Church

A Text Without a Context

PROOF-TEXTING: Stinging together an inappropriate or inadequate series of Bible verses to prove out theology.

ISOLATIONISM: Failing to interpret a single Scripture text in light of its context.

Adding to Scripture

SPIRITUALIZING: Reading a spiritual or historical truth into a text rather than extracting truth from it.

NATIONALIZING: Seeing one’s own country as the recipient of natioinal promises made by God in the Bible to Israel.

Editing God’s Mind

EMBELLISHING: Reading current thinking into the Bible.

METHODOLOGIZING: Interpreting the Scripture by means of an unproven theory about the Bible’s literary origin.

Modernizing the Bible

ACCOMODATION: Viewing Scripture through the lens of human reason.

CULTURALIZING: Limiting a text to a specific time in history or culture, when in reality the text demands a wider application in time. OR extending a past practice or culture into our time, which in fact should have been limited historically.

Twisting Scripture

REDEFINING Giving historically accepted biblical words new definitions to support our theology.

ANGLICIZING: Reaching inaccurate conclusions by drawing theology from the English text alone.

MYSTICIZING: Finding hidden meaning in Scripture that can be understood only by the one who knows the “secret code”.

Over Literalizing

LETERISM: Ignoring figures of speech and drawing woodenly literal conclusions.

LEGALIZING: Overemphasizing the letter of God’s Word at the expense of its spirit.

Reverse Interpretation

GENERALIZING: Assuming that any specific historical experience reported in Scripture is a valid, general experience for today.

EXPERIENTIALIZING: Reasoning that if any experience has occurred in Scripture, and I have the same experience, then it must be from God, i.e. using experience to validate Scripture instead of vice versa.

Over Systemizing

DOGMATIZING: Starting with a conclusion, which is then used to interpret the evidence, thereby assuring that the desired conclusion will be affirmed, i.e. circular reasoning.

DISPENSATIONALIZING: Overemphasizing the variations in God’s stewardship of redemption throughout history while minimizing God’s never-changing dealings with mankind according to His never-changing character.

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