Immunisation*

Christians should be pro-immunisation with three caveats:

1. Sadness, that linked to one of the vaccines are the abortion of two little babies. The Measeals-Mumps vaccine is developed using a cell line from two babies aborted in the 1960's. I gather the babies were aborted and cells kept from them and used ever since. WI-38 a girl at 3-month gestation and MRC-5 a boy at 14 weeks gestation. 
2. Wary of the ruling ideology. Generally what's observable and sensible correlates with Christianity but sometimes the dominate ideology makes cultural demands that are repugnant, think Orwell's 1984 or Aldus Huxley's Brave New World for possible trajectories.
3. Suspicious of conspiracy theories because they also like the ruling ideology demand total allegiance and require you to leave what is often the observable and the sensible into a smaller ideological circle. 

However with those three caveats in mind vaccinations are part of living in community, living alongside others and loving your neighbour. 

15 Biblical through-themes

Carson has a list, somewhere, of about seventeen whole Bible themes that are emphasised throughout Scripture. What do people think of this list, have I missed one?

1. Creation and Brokenness 
2. Culture: what should I create?
3. Ethics: how then should we live?
4. Eternity (time)
5. Evil (theodicy)
6. Grace and obedience = God's activity and our response
7. Gospel = Good news, Saviour and Bad news
8. Identity
9. Judgement and Mercy
10. Saving and Common Grace
11. Sin
12. Supernatural and Providence
13. Trinity
14. Thanksgiving 
15. Worship

The Trinity = Something taught

Fred Sanders in the Credo Magazine on how we arrive at the doctrine of the Trinity.

"The   idea   that   we   could   read   doctrines   directly   off   our   spiritual   experience   was   a   hallmark   of   classical   theological   liberalism,   and   did   not   normally   promote   the   health   of   the   doctrine   of   the   Trinity   (see   the   treatments   of   the   doctrine   by   Schleiermacher   and   Ritschl,   for   instance). The   doctrine   of   the   Trinity   doesn’t   spontaneously   emerge   from   spiritual   experience;;   it   has   to   be   carefully   taught." (22)

Then later about how this learning reveals how Trinitarian the Gospel and our salvation is.

"When   we   know   all   of   this,  we  know  where  the   gospel   came   from.   We   know   that   in   this   work   of   human   salvation,   the   character   of   God   is   made   known   to   us,   and   that   character   is   the   triune   character   of  Father,   Son,   and   Holy   Spirit.   Taking   the   big  view  of  how  we  know  the  details  of  the   doctrine  of  the  Trinity  helps  explain  the  odd   situation  we  started  with:  that  everyone  who   gets   saved   has   had   this   deeply   trinitarian   experience,   but   few   notice   the   trinitarian   character   of   it." (24)

And finally an excellent comment about the place of the Trinity in the church.

"The   doctrine   of   the   Trinity   is   the   quintessential   catechizing   doctrine.   Whenever  and  wherever  Christian  churches   have  understood  the  urgency  of  the  task  of   teaching  the  truth  to  believers,  the  doctrine   of   the   Trinity   has   thrived:   think   of   the   fourth   century   and   the   sixteenth   century,   both   periods   rich   in   catechetical   literature   and   practice.   On   the   other   hand,   when   the   practice  of  catechesis  has  fallen  into  neglect,   the  doctrine  of  the  Trinity  has  lost  its  luster "(25)

[Again my apologies for the weird formatting, cut and paste from a PDF]