Chuck Smith No More

An early start to a typical Valentines Day (except for the part where I kept coughing on DH, & ran out of Kleenex because last Friday I !ran out! of Zycam...), the 6am Valentines exchage included DH's annual humorous good nature: homemade, hot off the printer, insightful & timely.  He's a genius in the Valentine dept. I went back to bed for the ultimate common cold cure, BEDREST. Darn the iPhone, however, as it's been 2 hrs. of emails and websurf, but NO REST. I blame D#1, Bryan Kemper, and Chuck Smith. The former's email documented the latter's incomprehensibly spineless pro-abortion waffling, and so my viral state continues in every way physiologic, Apple-technic, and metaphoric.

My email response, below, betrays my usual acerbity, proof that AmZyg still has a long way to go before growing up and OUT of angry arrogance. I will try to rest now, under the judgment of my Creator and my own worse self.

Only 2.5 months to go before I am 50. What a burden. As if I were not already in a lamentable state, my Valentine of 28 yrs. (+/- 3 break ups) told me I need to DO SOMETHING to halt my lately balding pate. PHILIPPIANS 4 would have me joyful at this sentiment. It indicates that my DH is finally growing serious about his convictions.

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My email to Pastor Smith:

"We briefly met in the hallway of your Logos Bldg. You sampled my husband's meatballs served to a gathering of Eagle Forum guests & speakers; & we've since boasted to friends/family that 'Hey! Chuck SMITH likes Hubby's cooking...'

But after hearing you equivocate on the SANCTITY of all human life, we will boast no more, sir. We are awestruck and heartsick, & can't help but surmise what other areas of moral compromise must be at work in your life for this counter-intuitive conclusion to be reached??  [OH, I shudder to have stooped to the hypocritical tactic of finger pointing.]  Else, what Bible-based pastor could possibly counsel a woman to "deify" her doctors by holding their Darwinist opinions above Scripture & concede to kill her own offspring? Doctors are not Gods. The AMA's humanist agenda cultivates demi-gods bent on secularizing their realm. You, sir, above all others, should have seen right through their advice.

[I did not, in my headachey state, begin to address all that was offensive in Pastor Smith's answer to 'Nikki from Riverside' --see Youtube link from Mr. Kemper's StandTrue.com. It allowed that we may do whatever we wish in this life, and that the Compassionate Christ, who forgives all sin, will just look the other way!  If this 'anything goes' sense of the Gospel doesn't indicate some morally abased compromise happening in someone's head or heart or doctrines, then AmZyg is not a wily sinner who's own record of justifying sin (pride? anorexia? bulimia? premarital sex? unfaithful anger?) has resulted in untold harm and sizable counseling bills... We cannot just wish away our willful behaviour on the un-biblical, semi-RomanCatholic assumption that "Jesus will just take away my sins." A Just God will press hard into us the ultimatums of right versus wrong, and His judgments are sure and heavy and painful when we refuse to surrender to what His Spirit & Scripture declare is Right. Certainly, when we repent, healing happens in time, and His forgiveness can be real, but the pain of a Believer's regret is a heavy price to pay for wrongheaded willfulness, and the toll it exacts is a lonesome distance between our repentant selves and His ready healing --Lamentations 3 to Psalm 130. This new mindset, if that is what this is, is surely the Emergent Church I keep hearing about.]

I am praying Nikki will get the benefit of true wise counsel and submit to the Awesome Sovereign God of ALL creation, rather than live out her life with the unconscionable memory of blood on her hands.

And the same for you, sir.

Sincerely, Elena Flores Blanco"

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