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Resistance in Love
It is the nature of Hebrew language to be indicative. It was never supposed to be legalistic; that was a perversion introduced with Hellenism after the conquest of Alexander the Great (323 BC). Rabbis began absorbing the delirium of human … Continue reading
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Tagged blood guilt, Covenant of Noah, Hebrew language, resistance
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Lust for Sex or Control?
When your conscious awareness is heart-led, you will find that a lot of moral truth lies dormant until provoked by the need of the moment. It’s a sense that, if the right question comes along, the Spirit of the Lord … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient hebrew culture, English translations, heart-led, Hebrew language, Hebrew Scripture, men versus women
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Why We Teach Biblical Law
Among the many different ways we might formulate an answer to the question in the title, there’s one that really matters: keeping morality conscious. The power of human coercion is emotion. The negative emotions that bind us all tend to … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient hebrew culture, Biblical Law, emotional manipulation, epistemology, heart-led, Hebrew language, languages, legalism, oppression
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Radix Fidem Curriculum: Hebrew Language
The curriculum work continues. We are now entering Part 2, which is the background for shifting to a more biblical point of view. Part 2 1. Old Testament Hebrew Language One of the languages Abraham spoke was Aramaic. It was … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient hebrew culture, ANE, epistemology, Hebrew language, radix fidem
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Jeremiah 17:9
Several people have asked me how to reconcile our talk here about being heart-led with this verse in Jeremiah. Most English translations go something like this: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? … Continue reading
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Tagged epistemology, fallen nature, heart-led, Hebrew language, prophet jeremiah, Satan
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Getting Lost on the Road
How did a Gentile become a part of Israel? It was all a matter of the Covenant. Anyone who was willing to embrace the covenant in full could become a part of Israel, and it had nothing to do with … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient civilizations, ANE, Biblical Mysticism, culture, faith, Hebrew language
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Proverbs 20 (Part 2)
(Recall that the context here is contrasting human justice against God’s divine moral character.) 16. Take the garment of him who is surety for a stranger; and take a pledge from him for strangers. Making loans on these terms are … Continue reading
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Tagged covenant of moses, culture, figures of speech, Hebrew language, proverbs, wisdom literature
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Heart: Awake and Clear
We have two concerns when we study how the Hebrew and other ANE cultures took seriously the heart as a superior intelligence. First, we have a massive barrier in the form of Western Civilization. It’s not enough that the West … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, aristotelian logic, civilization, epistemology, Hebrew language, mysticism, philosophy, quantum reasoning, scripture, sensory heart, spirituality, western civilization, Western mythology
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Proverbs 10
We begin with an early collection of proverbs Solomon heard or spoke himself. Scripture text is in italics. 1. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother. Whatever sorrows life might … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient hebrew culture, Hebrew language, King Solomon, moral character, proverbs, wisdom literature
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