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Conscience and Conviction
We can say that your conscience is your capacity to read your convictions. Conscience is the interface between your conscious mind and your convictions. But the conscience needs training; the convictions do not. The convictions are not developed but discovered. … Continue reading
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Tagged conscience, conviction, divine revelation, Hebrew epistemology, Hebrew language, Hellenism, sin, the Cross, Western mythology
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The Omphalos
Re: Naked Bible 124: Ezekiel 17 You can quickly discern who is a fake scholar of ancient religions by how they take the ANE mythology literally. Fake scholars (the kind typically hired for TV shows about ancient history) will talk … Continue reading
We Struggle with Prophecy
I once knew a public school teacher who was fond of using the expression: “You better get on board or you’ll be left behind at the station!” Most of his students knew it meant he was angry, but they confessed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible translation, hebrew culture, Hebrew language, hebrew literature, jesus parables, prophecy, propositional truth, symbolic communication
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Poking God in the Eye
Re: Naked Bible 115: Ezekiel 6; supplementary papers on High Places and Idols Basic principle: God will get what He wants. He made it painfully obvious from the very start that He would have a human family to represent Him … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible History, Hebrew language, high places, idolatry, King David, King Josiah, King Manasseh, Michael S. Heiser, OT History, Prophet Ezekiel
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Languages of the Bible and in the Bible
In order to handle one particular Bible passage, we need a wealth of background explanation. All the more do we need it because we need to clobber some false notions common in our day. Abraham was referred to in Scripture … Continue reading
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Tagged Akkadian, ANE, Aramaic, biblical languages, Canaan, Greek Language, Hebrew language, languages, Mesopotamia, Sumer
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God Demands Mysticism
Let me bring to your attention the excellent comment posted by Jackabond: There’s a great deal of scaffolding in the established Church, such as Christology, that has been erected around Christian beliefs that aren’t consistent with a spiritual or mystical … Continue reading
If We Must Act
We warned some years ago that the only way conservatives can survive in America would be to violently purge the government — at all levels — of leftists. Not just government, but the same purge must happen in media and … Continue reading
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Tagged evil, Hebrew language, human government, law, moral values, secular state, the Covenant of Moses, violence, Zionism
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False Equivalence
Trying to uproot western mythology is like fighting Bermuda grass. Any gardener knows it burrows deep and in all directions. You can scarcely get rid of it once it gets started. It can even pull apart asphalt once it starts … Continue reading
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Tagged Covenant of Christ, grammar, Hebrew language, Jeff Benner, Ten Commandments, the Covenant of Moses
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Half-intentional Sins
Re: Heiser on Leviticus 5 — The main point Heiser makes for here is that God recognizes fine gradations in judging whether a ritual defilement was intentional or not. In analyzing the Hebrew language of this chapter, there is at … Continue reading
HTCG 03e
Chapter 3: Time and Space Section B: The Israelite Conception of Time Part 2: Psychic Time Subpart c: The Time of History Boman takes a couple of pages to warn us that the western notion of time is quite confused. … Continue reading
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Tagged grammar, Hebrew epistemology, Hebrew language, time and space, western epistemology
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