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Teaching Experiment: Earthquakes 1
Just as an exercise, I wanted to share some of my education in the mechanics of earthquakes. I’ve never seen it offered anywhere else this way, particularly in public education. It seems it always has big gaps in it, so … Continue reading
Secrecy Lies
Let’s explore another value shift: secrecy. In the Bible, secrecy is a valid tactic, but is immoral as a strategy. That is, you can deny your enemy knowledge of the facts of your tactical plan, but you cannot hide from … Continue reading
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Tagged Biblical Mysticism, communion, epistemology, faith, Garden of Eden, philosophy, propositional truth, redemption, western epistemology
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A Shift in Values
Some of our biggest challenges arise from overcoming bad conditioning. Our society has an obsession with “saving time” — by which is implied not wasting something that is precious and hard to get. There are a whole raft of assumptions … Continue reading
Adjust Your Perceptions
You cannot know Christ without your heart. It may well be you are His, bought with a price, but you cannot truly know Him without a mystical encounter through your heart-mind. It’s not a question of sentiment, though it will … Continue reading
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Tagged Biblical Law, Creation, divine revelation, Garden of Eden, heart-led, Jesus Christ, natural world, Second Coming, the Fall
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It Was Never Real
Churches that emphasize changing the world are little more than political institutions. Such churches have chosen to participate in God’s cattle-herding of those oblivious to His will. This has nothing to do with whether they might actually be the sheep … Continue reading
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Tagged Creation, evangelism, Garden of Eden, human perception, otherworldly, politics, religion, the Fall, Two Realms
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Lord, Open Their Eyes
One of the primary consequences of the American Christian obsession with “going to Heaven” is the obvious estrangement from Biblical Law and the riches of living in shalom in the fallen world. It’s more than mere disconnected doctrine, though; it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian Zionists, evangelism, Judaized Christianity, military, The Great Commission
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Many Are Called; Few Respond
We cannot know what Adam and Eve knew when they ate the Forbidden Fruit. We do get the feeling they were led astray, which is what we would expect. Satan came to them as a powerful archangel and they respected … Continue reading
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Tagged American Christian, ANE, Creation, heart-mind, Jesus Christ, kingdom of heaven, theology
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The Magic Jesus Wand
Some readers will not get this; sometimes it’s very hard to untangle the lies of linear thinking and binary logic. It’s a standard feature of American theology, as if human reason was the rule to which all belief must bow … Continue reading
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Tagged covering, Creation, Jesus Christ, Law and Grace, Law Covenants, spiritual birth
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No Scarlet Letter
Maybe you remember the story in John 4, where Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman from Sychar. He could read her very soul, and noted that she had a very unstable romantic past. We know very little of the historical context … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft, teaching
Tagged human sexuality, Jesus, marriage, penitence, rituals, scripture, social conditioning
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The Supernatural
Just a quick note… In many ways, the word “supernatural” is mostly used in place of “inexplicable” in the sense that it signals something from another realm of existence. Granted, in movies and other forms of fiction, it is almost … Continue reading
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Tagged heart-mind, human senses, intellect, quantum reality, reason, sensory heart, superstition
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