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Biblical Morality: Chapter 7

Posted on August 10, 2013 by ehurst

Fighting Fate Fate is a heathen concept. In some pagan mythologies, particularly those on which the West was built, the universe doesn’t care. Even if we imagine there is a personal entity behind our unpleasant circumstances, it’s an uncaring entity. … Continue reading →

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Biblical Morality: Chapter 6

Posted on August 9, 2013 by ehurst

Limits of Power and Enforcement You cannot separate loyalty to God from social stability. The thread that ties together all biblical law regarding conduct with other humans has always been the necessity of maintaining social stability. This is the primary … Continue reading →

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Democratization of Religion

Posted on August 8, 2013 by ehurst

God is actively involved in devolving human activity down to the control of the individual. This does not contradict my blather about tribal lifestyle in the least. Social stability is the issue, and breaking non-family power structures is an unmitigated … Continue reading →

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Biblical Morality: Chapter 5

Posted on August 8, 2013 by ehurst

And Your Neighbor As Yourself By now you should understand the primary mistake Cain made in answering God’s query about Abel. Cain’s question was immaterial, an attempted misdirection, so any answers people might imagine and promote are missing the point. … Continue reading →

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About the Bible

Posted on August 7, 2013 by ehurst

I’m not picking on anyone in particular here. We talk about the Bible as “God’s Word.” Chances are these days, if some brand of English is your native tongue, you received a really bad education. You aren’t entirely to blame … Continue reading →

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Biblical Morality: Chapter 4

Posted on August 7, 2013 by ehurst

Boundaries “Brother, without hesitation, my life for yours. I’ll never stab you in the back, but that doesn’t mean I won’t cut your heart out if you betray my trust.” Had David held that attitude with his cousin Joab, the … Continue reading →

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Net Speculation

Posted on August 6, 2013 by ehurst

There’s some pretty serious warfare on the Net right now. I’m little more than a power user, not a real hacker or professional technician. I have a computer ministry, but it’s mostly mundane stuff any power user could fix. But … Continue reading →

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Biblical Morality: Chapter 3

Posted on August 6, 2013 by ehurst

It’s All in the Family It’s not for nothing He said we should call Him “Father.” In Scripture, the family is the anchoring point of all human activity. This is perhaps one of the most difficult claims to make in … Continue reading →

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Biblical Morality: Chapter 2

Posted on August 5, 2013 by ehurst

His Call Our Divine Sheikh owns us. You have to wipe away the idiocy of thinking you could possibly be free. That’s a myth peculiar to the West. All living beings are accountable to someone else, and eventually we are … Continue reading →

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We Aren’t Ready

Posted on August 5, 2013 by ehurst

In the social sciences, we are forced to strip out threads of reality because no human can possibly grasp the totality of what happened in the past or what’s happening right now. We do not even have an economic model … Continue reading →

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