A Knight's Blog

  There has been a very destructive concept that found it’s way into the Church through monasticism and asceticism. The idea that body is flesh and vile, and that spirit is what must be cultivated. This comes from a heresy known as Gnosticism that claimed a duality of body and spirit, that the body was evil and the spirit was good. This very dangerous concept not only survived in spin offs called Mainchaelism which had Augustine of Hippo for a time, and Catharism which was rampant in France in the Middle Ages, but it is in direct violation of the Incarnation of God, our Lord Jesus Christ who the Nicene Creed affirms was Born of the Virgin Mary, who did have sex later with Joseph her husband and had kids, “But he did not have sexual relations with her until her son was born. And Joseph named him Jesus..” (Matthew 1:25), but she was a virgin when she had Jesus. The Apostle John tells us to be beware of these heresies against the body, because they speak against Christ, “I say this be...

  There is this great song by Creed, song by Scott Stapp that goes, “What’s this Life For?!” It’s a introspective piece meant to urge the listener to take stock of their own life through self examination. I recently watched The Neon Genesis Evangelion Rebuilds (1.0, 2.22, 3.0, and 3.0+1.0), four movies, not the original bleak series. While I was put off at first by Lilith and the Kabala elements with the angels, the overall message of the story is very profound and Christian. Shinji, the main pilot of Eva 01, a mecha Kaiju (giant robot monster like Godzilla) like creation to fight the angels bent on mankind’s destruction is traumatized by having lost his mother at three years old, and his Father Gendo ignores him except to exploit his prowless in Eva mechs. As I watched the series of Shinji doing battle with the angels I could not help but wonder do we Christians not fall for the same trap? Feeling our higher purpose is to do spiritual warfare and make war against the angels that f...

There is a very intriguing verse in the epistle of Peter that says, “like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 2:5). What are these sacrifices? I admit I had to do something research. Most believe it is priestly duties of fasting, prayer, worship, and alms. I however, found the Got Answers list to be rather more in tune with other Scriptures, “Spiritual sacrifices include the believer's prayers, praises, will, bodies, time, and talents.” Of those that stood out to me talents, for Jesus gives a prable of the talents, which many view as money, but I believe it purposefully named to fit what it means today, “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talen...

  The devil is cunning and crafty, the apostle Peters tells us, “The devil is like a lion going about looking for someone to devour.” (1 Peter 5:8). The problem is that Scripture documents Satan and his ways in depth in Ezekiel 28:10-28, Isaiah 14:11-14. Genesis 3:1-19, Revelation 12:4-12, Matthew 4:1-10, and etc. We have in our Bibles his tactics well described and the methods in which to resist so that he shall flee (James 4:7). His companion, who I am convinced is Ashteroth, Isis, and all chief goddesses next to the Baal’s equivalent in each culture, who is goddesses of fertility and war, her true name Lilith, is but in one Scripture, “Lilith, the night demon, who is in wilderness, there she will find rest.” (Isaiah 34:14). We are not armed with her tactics in Scripture because Jews fear her and have had her removed from most Masoretic and Hebrew texts, they even have talismans with three angels to protect their children from her. Lilith has become a “she that we do not speak of...

  The original Devil Wears Prada movie was about how the Runaway, the “beacon” of the fashion industry was run by a woman akin to the devil herself, Miranda Priestly, played by the legendary actress Meryl Streep. One of her interns, Andy, played by Ann Hathaway is tested as she is transformed by her job from a kind hearted gal to someone willing to throw people under the bus to keep her job. At the end Andy faces a cross roads, and decides not to become the devil’s daughter, and instead chases her journalism goals. The film is a classic, and when sequel was announced I had reservations. The first film tells Andy’s story as protagonist so well from beginning to end, that a sequel felt unnecessary.  My reservations about sequels have merit for some of worst films are sequels made too long after the original, examples being Coming To America 2 and Happy Gilmore 2. Usually what happens is a major regression of the progress the characters had, which a chief example of this is The B...

  The Apostle Paul warned the Church of Corinth that they put up with another gospel, “But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his trickery, your minds will be led astray from sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted,  this  you tolerate too easily!” (2 Corinthians 11:3-4), and that anyone who preaches another evangelion (gospel in Greek) is condemned, “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel (evangelion) other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!” (Galatians 1:8-9).  Neon Genesis Evangelion is a acclaimed anime that is as well known as Gundam. The story uses many symbols, themes, and t...