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Spiritual Warfare 05
More Problems and Questions In CS Lewis’s Screwtape Letters, he imagines a senior demon reveling in consuming great sinners’ souls. He complains that humanity is becoming commoditized, that while there is a vast bulk of souls to consume, the delightful … Continue reading
Radix Fidem Curriculum: Conceptualizing
Part 3 (exploring Biblical Law) 1. Conceptualizing We need to think in terms of Biblical Law. It’s a blessing from God that we have the written record of the Covenant of Moses, for it exemplifies Noah, which remains in effect. … Continue reading
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Tagged conscience, conscious awareness, Creation, faith, Garden of Eden, heart-led, the Fall
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Pastoral Psychology and the Heart 04
Moral truth was firmly established before Creation. The fatal flaw in choosing the Forbidden Fruit is that the human intellect is utterly incapable of being objective. Reason leading to objective truth is just a myth. Inevitably the traffic feeding into … Continue reading
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Tagged conscience, conscious awareness, convictions, Creation, heart, psychology
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Answering 06: Freedom
The truth will set you free. If all you have is mere factual knowledge and analysis, it won’t matter how much or how deep is your knowing, you are still trapped in this world and on the way to Hell. … Continue reading
Posted in sanity
Tagged conscious awareness, divine revelation, faith, freedom of conscience, government, heart-mind, moral authority, moral truth, psychology, religion, science
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Heaven, Hell and Here
This isn’t theology, as if God and His revelation could be subjected to human reason. This is doctrine in the sense of teaching that serves to characterize my limited understanding. Teaching is pulling down out of my heart the moral … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, conscious awareness, Hebrew Mysticism, mysticism, New Testament, scripture, spirituality, symbolic logic, western bias, western christianity, Western mythology
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Proverbs 16 (Part 1)
(Divided into two posts because it’s long.) This chapter addresses divine sovereignty from the unique worldview of a mystical Hebrew mind, fully aware of the complexity of human nature. 1. The ordering of the heart in man, and the answer … Continue reading
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Tagged conscious awareness, Hebrew Mysticism, human awareness, human nature, King Solomon, scripture, social stability, wisdom literature
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Locus Focus Hocus Pocus
(Posted early as tomorrow’s message.) I’ve tried to warn my readers that we should study the Ancient Hebrew mindset as best we can, but never pretend it is necessary or even possible to duplicate it in ourselves. We do not … Continue reading