Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Is there any place today for "bad news" of the kind Ezekiel proclaimed?

They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not obey them. For flattery is on their lips, but their heart is set on their gain.
~Ezekiel 33:31


In your relationship with God, are you more concerned with past failures? Or with hopes for the future?

In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, someone who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen.”
~Ezekiel 33:21

I would say that it's a combination of the two.  If I made a mistake in the past, I don't want to make the same mistake again.  If I did something that could benefit the future, then I hope that that task has come to fruition.

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Do you believe in universal standards of right and wrong? What "code of conduct" applies to everybody, regardless of their upbringing?

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful punishments. Then they shall know that I am the Lord, when I lay my vengeance on them.
~Ezekiel 25:17


Sunday, April 5, 2015

Have you ever loved someone who didn't love you back? What emotions do you feel?

Then I said, Ah, she is worn out with adulteries, but they carry on their sexual acts with her.
~Ezekiel 23:43

Yes, I have loved someone that didn't love me back.  Maybe I still love them, I just can't bring myself to say it until they do.  That's how I feel I can protect myself from being hurt because all I feel is angry and sad altogether when I can't tell that someone doesn't care for me the same way I do.