Another day in the media elite. But...it got me wondering - if the Rome Gazette had named the top 100 movers and shakers of the world in the last year of Jesus' ministry, would he have made the list? Would Paul have made it, during his last missionary journey? Doubt it!
posted by Matt Friedeman @ 5:00 PM
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'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world. (William Booth)
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Did you see the column in the top 100 about Judge John Jones,"the Judge who ruled for Darwin" Pg 82?
Apparently you can make the list if you claim Christianity as your belief system, yet state that creationism is "Breathtaking Inanity". The whole column is wrong on so many levels, you will fall over, from the authors thinly veiled dismissal of Christianity, to his glee at An Agenda Thwarted. Time Marches On.
Even if someone at Time considered a Christian leader to be important he still would not be listed, because they do not want a right wing tag. Recycling the list of pop culture heros is in their small minds a non confrontational stance. Perhaps it is time to confront them.
Doesn't the Bible say somewhere, "Beware when all men speak well of you"?
TIME's cofounder, Henry Robinson Luce, was a missionary's son who as a boy attended the China Inland Mission's CHEFOO SCHOOL (for MKs)in Shandong Province. He was an intellectual giant, even as a young man, and used to compose poetry in Greek (among other things). He was an outstanding student at Chefoo and later Hotchkiss and Yale. When he passed a very difficult mathematics exam on one occasion as a youngster of about 13, Hank Luce reverently gave all the credit to the Lord, exclaiming, "It was all God!"
On TIME's 75th anniversary, the current 'eminences' paid tribute to the founder saying that Luce's purpose for the magazine was to christianize America. But they stated that that was not the purpose of the present administration.
So TIME has drifted from its original moorings. Sad.
Oh yeah, Al Gore, I can't believe they put him on the list. Instead of putting a former congressman, who was also Vice President of the United States and won the popular vote of the United States for president, they should have put a preacher. Vice presidents-like they're important. HA!
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