Author: trinityweb
If God is the Lord of hosts, then God’s Son is the Prince of Peace (Part I)
Embracing my inner atheist, I notice some situations that I would like to consider: Although God is the same yesterday, today, and always, in the Hebrew Bible we read that God is too violent. This is manifested in all the wars in which God ordered the annihilation of entire towns without having mercy on anyone (by the way, there is not much difference between these texts and the current actions of some extremists, violent groups in the world, specially in the Middle East).
Jesús fue un refugiado
Veo por la televisión las atroces imágenes de gentes aterrorizadas que buscan refugio, después de haberse jugado la vida cruzando el mar a bordo de pequeños barcos de papel. Detrás tienen la muerte que los espera con sus fauces abiertas una vez más. Delante se encuentran con vallas levantadas por gobiernos que supuran miedo al diferente, ordenando a sus lacayos que repelan con uñas y dientes la avalancha de los nadies. Y no puedo más que recordar a Jesús de Nazaret…
Jesus was a refugee
I see on television and social media the atrocious images of terrified people seeking refuge after having risked their lives crossing the sea aboard small paper boats. Behind them is death that awaits them with its jaws open once again. Ahead, they find fences erected by governments that exude fear of the different, ordering their lackeys to repel the avalanche of nobodies. And I can only remember Jesus of Nazareth…
La oración que no cambia las circunstancias
Muchas lineas se han dedicado para hablar de la oración. Casi que cada disidencia del cristianismo tiene una postura diferente sobre el poder de esta o su aplicabilidad. Incluso, muchos debates se suscitan en diferentes medios, llegando a desembocar en acaloradas discusiones sobre la pertinencia de orar de una u otra manera de acuerdo al mandato bíblico.
When prayers do not change circumstances
Many words have been dedicated to understanding matters around prayer. Almost every current of Christianity has a different position on its power or its applicability. Many debates even arise in different media, leading to heated discussions about the relevance of praying in one way or another according to the biblical mandate or personal and community experiences.
La asquerosa cara de la guerra
En la guerra no hay ganadores, todos somos perdedores. Es el pueblo el que pone las víctimas, las muertes, las lágrimas, el hambre, la desesperanza, el dolor. La guerra ha sido narrada en tintas de diferentes colores, muchos de ellos. Se...
You won’t be the winner. Me neither
In war there are no winners, we are all losers. Oppressed people are those who bring, from their midst, the war victims, the deaths, the tears, the hunger, the hopelessness, the pain. War has been narrated in inks of different colors,...
Why a dove?
It is curious (to say the least) that, according to the gospels and in the context of the baptism of Jesus of Nazareth, the Divine manifests the Holy Spirit by flying like a dove. Having any animal symbol or metaphor available, God chooses that one.
¿Por qué una paloma?
Es curioso (cuanto menos eso) que, según los evangelios y en el marco del bautismo de Jesús de Nazaret, el Espíritu Santo se manifieste volando como una paloma. Teniendo a su disposición cualquier símbolo o metáfora animal, escoge ese.
