Tag Archives: epistemology

ACBM: Part 3 Chapter 4

Posted on August 1, 2013 by ehurst

Chapter 4 — Recap God’s personal presence pervades all of His Creation. Here inside our tiny bubble, the time-space continuum of human existence, this presence is not obvious. There is no compelling proof that logic cannot deny; it requires more … Continue reading →

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Proposal: A Course in Christian Mysticism

Posted on June 6, 2013 by ehurst

I am a true Christian Mystic. That should not be taken as a suggestion everyone else is false, but that I obviously disagree with just about everyone else promoting Christian Mysticism. If you understand anything at all about mysticism in … Continue reading →

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Untangling Activist Logic

Posted on June 4, 2013 by ehurst

Activist logic does not even qualify as decent Aristotelian logic. In order to reject the primacy of Aristotelian epistemology, I first had to understand it to some degree. This didn’t come as some dreamy longing for swords and sorcery. It … Continue reading →

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Morality Defines All Things

Posted on June 2, 2013 by ehurst

Morality is defined as obedience to God’s revelation regarding things in this life. It is living in this fallen world according to a divine understanding of what’s wrong and what’s right, but it assumes an understanding that is higher than … Continue reading →

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Truth Seizes a Few

Posted on May 30, 2013 by ehurst

Whether you seek it consciously or not, truth will seize only a few at a time. That’s pretty much the meaning of the twin parables of the Found Treasure and the Pearl of Great Price (Matthew 13:44-46). The other point … Continue reading →

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Prophetic Reasoning in Disasters

Posted on May 23, 2013 by ehurst

(This is a prophetcraft post.) Let’s clarify the biblical understanding of disasters. The starting point is humanity is fallen. In Adam, we all chose the wrong path; we chose human reason over the direct guidance of the Holy Spirit. We … Continue reading →

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The Wisdom of Solomon

Posted on May 19, 2013 by ehurst

Spoiler alert: I’m going to explain how the book of Ecclesiastes turns out, while our weekly study will continue running for a couple of months. First, a little context. Solomon took the throne rather like a big fish in a … Continue reading →

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Emotional Devotions

Posted on May 13, 2013 by ehurst

The hardest thing for a Western Christian is separating emotion from Spirit. My single strongest accusation of fraud against the modern Charismatic movement is their vociferous, almost hateful insistence that their emotional manipulation is the hand of God. No, you … Continue reading →

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Mankind Is Fallen

Posted on May 10, 2013 by ehurst

Perhaps it seems a bit odd I should have to use a title restating a pretty basic Christian doctrine. By no means am I trying to address those who might actually dispute the assertion. I expect that from the fallen … Continue reading →

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A Theology of Theology

Posted on May 7, 2013 by ehurst

theology: the study of God and of the nature of religious truth; a school of thought arising from such study; an organized course of study within the academic field of religion There is no theology in the Bible. There entire … Continue reading →

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