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The Theology of Division
There is so very much that we simply cannot see unless God shows it to us. I’m not sure there is any way to draw a line between heart-led moral perception and a direct move by God to point something … Continue reading
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Tagged epistemology, fellowship, mainstream churches, objective reality, systematic theology, virtual parish
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There’s More We Can Do
We don’t want Radix Fidem to become popular, but we do want it to spread so more people can share in the blessing. Nobody has to tell us that this will never be mainstream; Jesus warned that it could never … Continue reading
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Tagged Biblical Law, Biblical Mysticism, divine calling, evangelism, heart-led, mission, Noah's Covenant, radix fidem
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Christian Fake News
Using your favorite Internet search engine, look up the term “Christian news.” You’ll probably get a list of rather popular sites purporting to offer news stories of particular interest to Christian believers. Let me restate that: Mostly it’s news filtered … Continue reading
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Tagged American evangelicals, marketing, news
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Dispensationalism: No Rest for the Weary
The wedge issue has always been Dispensational eschatology. I came to full religious awareness while living in Anchorage, Alaska. It was about the time I turned twelve years old. My family was attending a particular Baptist church where the pastor … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian Zionists, church politics, Dispensationalism, education, eschatology, Hal Lindsey, personal experience
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Extravagance Is Not Shalom
Cruising the Christian News sites, I see the current big money items. 1. Vanity toys: Can you take him seriously? I prayed for a bicycle, and before that a used car for my working wife. That doesn’t make me holier, … Continue reading
Boundary or Not
To many Christians, I sound like a conspiracy theorist when I mention the Hellenizing of Hebrew religion into Judaism. It’s particularly odd when any decent Bible college teaches the widely known history of Post-Exile Jerusalem. They talk about the conquests … Continue reading
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Tagged American evangelicals, Apostle Paul, epistemology, Judaizers, Pharisaical Hellenism, theology
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Unraveling Some Threads of Folly
There’s a long-running cult in Anglo-American history, much bigger than any single group. There is a core of belief that the Anglo-Saxons, among other Germanic tribes, are God’s Chosen. How that moved from Israel to Anglo-Saxons varies among these groups. … Continue reading
The End of Religious Schlock
The cards are not in your favor, Christian bookstores; read `em and weep. I’m just enough iconoclast to appreciate the death of so-called Christian book stores. In the middle ages it was alleged relics of the New Testament figures and … Continue reading
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Tagged books, business, economics, mainstream churches
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More on Meta-religion
What holds us together? We have no ideal. At least, we have nothing that most humans would recognize as an ideal, because our aim is otherworldly. Our union is communion on another plane. What holds us together is not in … Continue reading
Closer to Iran than Bellicose America
In logic, we call it a “category error” when someone tries for to force something into the wrong category of logic. It’s one thing to cling tenaciously to Aristotelian denials of other realms of existence; it’s another thing to try … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, epistemology, Islam, philosophy, politics, western bias
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