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Talking Past Each Other 2
(The previous post by the same title is about computer stuff, but the principles are similar.) You cannot prove God exists, and they cannot prove He doesn’t. We who are spiritual are aliens to those who aren’t spiritual. They live … Continue reading
Posted in sanity
Tagged ANE, aristotelian epistemology, epistemology, intellect, reason, Two Realms, western epistemology
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Flaming Sword of Future
Islamic scholars say you cannot really understand the Quran until you read it in Arabic. The issue is not making your own internal translation from Arabic into your native tongue, but translating your mind into Arabic thought. Frankly, the Bible … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged ANE, divine revelation, epistemology, mysticism, science, scripture, spirituality
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Job 41
If we haggle too much over what creature is marked by the nickname Leviathan, we would miss the point entirely here. Should we need something approaching a literal animal, a crocodile or any of the larger sea creatures seen from … Continue reading
Christian Troops?
If we understand that God’s Laws predict a general non-compliance by humanity, if not open hostility, then our efforts to live His Laws begin to make more sense. We are not the Truth Police and there is no human on … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, church, government, military, mysticism, religion, scripture, spirituality, war
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Job 40
Again we must renew our awareness that the text says Job did not sin, but that he went too far in his use of parabolic expression. He is not condemned here but corrected. Job got too wrapped up in answering … Continue reading
Job 39
Is it so hard to imagine that God would speak to man in his own language? And is it so hard to imagine God would use a man’s own cultural images? Some cultures and languages do lend themselves much better … Continue reading
The Stink of Hell Nearby
What we know of the Spirit Realm cannot be stated in literal terms. Jesus taught in parables because all truly spiritual teaching is of necessity parabolic. The logic and the language is symbolic, not analytical and descriptive. I have no … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, Charismatics, law, mysticism, oppression, spirituality, Two Realms, unexamined assumptions
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The Western Devil
God revealed Himself to humanity through a long path of ancient lore. Abraham came out of Mesopotamia, a land renowned in its day for hosting a vast lore of archives representing ancient religions and mythology. Some of that traveled far … Continue reading
Posted in prophecy
Tagged ANE, civilization, epistemology, history, human reason, intellect, Mesopotamia, mysticism, scripture
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Job 34
Elihu endeavors to use the same linguistic manners as Job and his friends. So he offers words on their level and invites them to assess carefully in a wider context whether the things they have said make any sense. Elihu … Continue reading
Posted in bible
Tagged ANE, biblical languages, civilization, culture, Elihu, human reason, Job, law, scripture
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Job 32
People in the Ancient Near East would recognize that most moral questions can be answered differently on different levels. They were untroubled by apparent paradoxes and reversals of good and evil when viewing the exact same issue from different contexts. … Continue reading