First emailed blog Mar 25, 2005
Yep that's right.  This entry was emailed and automatically posted on my blog.  Amazing, isn't it?  Here's how I fixed all my formatting and other various problems (stop reading if don't even understand those first few lines):  I added a little line to my style.css file:  ".mobile-post {display: inline;}".  This takes the blank spaces out of blog entries that are emailed (because the mobile-post class is automatically set up to use a separate paragraph -- stupid).  Then I figured out how to show all my archives at the top of the page.  This was relatively easy.  But most amazing is this:  sometimes Blogger gives errors that say something like "javascript error EOF bla bla bla."  I read somewhere that you can change your FTP server to its IP address.  This works sometimes.  Or you can close out all browsers and clear all temporary internet files.  This works sometimes too.  Or you can do this:  Go to the template section of Blogger, and click on "Preview."  This opens up anything in your blog, even if it wasn't officially published to your FTP site.  This way, you can at least look at what you just did. 

Don't worry, this hurts me more than it hurts you. #technology
Bible times Mar 25, 2005
I'm thinking that things were kinda different in Bible times.  I think Christianity would be a lot more believable (for people who don't believe) if we were still living in Bible times.  All the people of the nations surrounding Israel acted in a similar way:  they sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings to gods.  To us, this means nothing because we don't know what sacrificing stuff means, and we usually associate it with cults.  But to the people in Bible times, it was fresh in their minds and made all the sense in the world.  So the idea of sin also made sense to them.  If you sinned, you needed to sacrifice to God.  There needed to be blood shed for the forgiveness of sins (Leviticus 17:11).  Similar to the idea of sin, the idea of a savior would also have made sense:  a person/thing to pay the price for everybody's sin.  This would be appealing. 

There was more to this thought.  I just can't remember it right now.  It keeps coming to my mind, and it makes a lot more sense before I try to verbalize it. #religion
Death Mar 25, 2005
This may sound kind of crazy, but I have an idea about death:  I think the purpose of death is to bring people to God.  Think about it:  when people die, it causes us grief because it causes a void, we're unsure of what happens after death, and it scares us to think of our own death.  But with God, we can take comfort in God's peace, because nothing else will fill that void.  We can have confidence that those who know him will be with him when they die.  And we can be sure that death is nothing to fear:  it's when we meet God face to face. #religion