I don't have anything tying the two together. I'm reading the New Testament. I'm not done with Matthew yet and finishing might not happen because I run across things like this:
"Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven." Matthew 6.1
"Everyone therefor who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven;" Matthew 10.32
At first read, these seem to be completely contradictory - in order to make sense of this I have to start reinterpreting the rules that came before and play games of semantics. Here's where I have a problem: Matthew has just said Jesus has given a bunch of rules and none of them was say my name to others. Furthermore, whenever he cured someone's afflictions he would tell them to not tell others. Faith alone was only enough when he was around. Once Jesus dies, it takes putting his wisdom into practice to get into heaven. Herein lies my complaint: to make sense of 10.32 I have to say that that just means saying you believe in Jesus. The problem with that is the good news of Jesus comes with his message... Maybe Matthew will clear up this confusion (probably due to postmortem editing at the Council of Nicaea), but I doubt it seeing as Matthew hasn't yet referenced his prior writing.
And for the other unrelated part of this post: I want to be a pioneer. I want to go travel off the planet. So I want to become a colonist on the Luna or Mars. That would be so fucking sweet.
Peace.
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