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Patriots win will not mean God has forsaken Tim Tebow
By adamg on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 2:28pm
Owen Strachan, a theology professor who admits to following the Patriots since the days when "Drew Bledsoe was completing cannon-like passes to more sideline coaches than receivers," struggles with the issue of whether God's hand is guiding Tebow's arm and what happens if the Patriots repeat their earlier stomping of Denver (Ed. note: Wouldn't it be something if the Pats won 66-6?), concludes that since the Bible basically promises suffering to Christians:
It means that there is no reason to believe that God has failed Tebow, that the light of the divine in Tebow's life is extinguished. God's Spirit, directed by God's will, blows like the wind where it wishes (John 3:8). It may be that Tebow will succeed in spectacular fashion; it may be that he will have the worst game of his life. Either way, the Bible assures us that God loves his chosen, God is orchestrating every detail of their lives, and God will lead them through success or failure to the end of all things. Sometimes God grants believers great victories, and sometimes he asks them to walk through the fire. This is true whether it is experienced on the football field, in the office, or in a country that rewards outspoken Christianity with a sword to the throat.
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Secret of Tebow
A normal-looking guy. Have all the other celebrity quarterbacks had cosmetic surgery?
Eh
More like a pundits wet dream. Lots of angles to fap to if your some mouth breathing sports broadcast journalist looking for news (controversy) to create and keep talking about on The Ocho.
Honestly, it's Sports TMZ'ation. We even see it in the Globe, with sports column written only to generate strife. A mans version of Oprah.
I'm kind of embarrassed when grown men are swooning over ESPN like a women over vogue magazine, especially when they don't realize it. Maybe I'm too cynical. But it just feels patronizing and ridiculous.
Heads he wins, tails you lose
So...tell me again how you know this sky genie is even there?
Even where?
It's just a foundational axiom of existence. The fact that we pretty much see the same world, we all agree that the Patriots will play the Broncos Saturday, we beat them last time, is due to God willing it.
Who IS this guy?!?
Sounds like a kid given to pulling the wings off of flies. And some people worship this guy?!?
Football. Now that's worthy of worship! :) :)
God Loves "HIS CHOSEN"?
"God" is responsible for the life of everybody who was ever born on this Earth; nobody ever ASKED to be born, and when people are conceived and born, they have no say over their life circumstances. And yet "God" CHOOSES some people over others to receive all sorts of goodies, while others are condemned on this Earth to be starving Somalis or untouchables in India, only to be sent to eternal damnation afterward because they WEREN'T born into a belief system of which this "God" approves? And all of the above is perfectly ok with numerous religions?
But they get their reward
But they get their reward later in Heaven. Trust him.
Owen Strachan, theology professor
http://www.boycecollege.com/discover-boyce/faculty...
I wouldn't want to live in a place like THAT
Man, what an awful country that must be to live in. I'd hate to live in a place where you couldn't speak out about your religion, say, in an editorial in a major publication without now suddenly fearing that someone will come breaking down your door to kill you.
But then again, that "reward" would just be adversity that God was putting you through...just like he ascribes to Job. All these other countrymen are only enacting God's will that you have a sword to your throat. Right? I mean all those outspoken Christians being threatened with a sword by their fellow countrymen are experiencing God's will blowing like the wind where it wishes (John 3:8). So I'm not sure why it sounds as if he's complaining about all the God's will that keeps coming his way in the form of perceived persecution. Don't they want God to have a hand in their lives or not?
But does Tebow do his own laundry?
This editorial was written by the same guy who thinks that God made women just to have babies (it's their curse) and do housework. Go get'em, Swirly.
Boyce College is the undergraduate holding house for the Southern Baptist Convention and their Theological Seminary located on the same grounds. Ah, the Southern Baptists...probably the ugliest characterization of Christianity outside of the Westboro compound.
Disclaimer: one set of my grandparents are Southern Baptist.
Is Tebow the Anti-Christ?
http://boston.barstoolsports.com/m/random-thoughts...
As for Southern Baptists, they are free to believe in their own misogynist blatherings and find others that do. I only take issue with them when they try to use the law to impose their Biblical Sharia on the rest of us through lawmaking or intimidation of doctors and such.
Wait - Swirly is a Stoolie?
We really are at the end of times...
Guilt by Association
The author is a high school classmate of my husband.
There is no God.
Only worms.
Te-Bowie (Ziggy God-Dust?)
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2012...
Ahhh...religion
grabbing onto anything to try and remain relevant in a world that is slowly passing it by. Let's see how the good professor spins it when Tebow comes out against gay marriage. Or gays in the NFL.
when Tebow comes out
period
Don't you mean "for gay marriage"?
The professor is a Southern Baptist. The only spin he'd do if Tebow came out against gay marriage and gays in the NFL is a spin into the end zone. SBC considers homosexuality a sin. Their official stance is to pray for the sinners and hope that they eventually come around to leaving their sins for the Lord instead. What that usually equates to for most Southern Baptists is hating homosexuals.
But if Tebow came out on the side of gays (marriage, NFL, or otherwise), then I would love to see what the professor thought.