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One More Time: Epistemology Matters
Somehow I’ve got to find a clear and forceful statement to counter the evil intellectual slavery of minds practiced by Western churches. First, the bluntly stated thesis: If you do not seek to acquire the Hebrew intellectual understanding of reality, … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, epistemology, human intellect, intellect, intellectual background, revelation, systematic theology, western christianity
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Job 26
Most Western readers will not understand what happens here. Eastern philosophers typically skip over a great deal of explanation that they would consider obvious. Bildad’s short speech was true as far as it went. The problem is he carries it … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, epistemology, intellect, Job, mysticism, parable, philosophy, scripture
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Economics Doesn’t Exist
Economics isn’t a useful body of theory, but merely a set of observations of human behavior regarding material goods and services within a specific context. I was certified to teach economics, one of the few public school teachers with that … Continue reading
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Tagged economic theory, economics, education, human behavior, human nature, intellect
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Dead Game
There is devastation all around me. On the one side, I see vast nations of men who languish under the lash of feminism. Worst of all, a vast carpet of Christian men who cannot possibly walk fully in the power … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged civilization, culture, divine revelation, fundamental assumptions, game, intellect, oppression, propaganda, religion
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Contagious Truth
The starting point is recognizing the failure of Western assumptions about truth. Truth is a Person; the notion of some objective thing out there that embodies pure truth is the greatest lie of Satan. The search for truth is inside … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, civilization, epistemology, government, intellect, law, mysticism, objective truth, philosophy, religion, revelation, scripture
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The Business of Prayer
Context is everything. A key element to all my religious babble on this blog is recognizing that you cannot blindly inject your own cultural prejudices into the process of reading the Bible. Scripture arises from a radically different mindset than … Continue reading
Job 18
We begin to understand Job’s visitors do not grasp what parables are, and do not comprehend symbolic language. God has always preferred parable as the means to communicate to mankind because it winnows out the spiritually dead. Only those with … Continue reading
The Mythology of Uniformity
As one reader noted, with full consciousness I subject the intellect to the Spirit. The mind was granted by God to serve the Spirit. Western Christianity typically presumes to intellectualize the Spirit, and that’s backwards, because it subjects the Spirit … Continue reading
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Tagged government, human reason, intellect, mysticism, oppression, peace, psychology, religion, spirituality, western christianity
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Some Limits Apply
The atheist or secularist who takes a poke at faith is merely shadow-boxing. Since they can’t hit the real thing, they simply castigate the effects. Faith is unreasonable in the sense of being far above reason, operating in a different … Continue reading
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Tagged divine justice, epistemology, intellect, law, mysticism, spirituality
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The World Is Mere Context
Revelation is true knowledge; everything else is just application. Further, you must rise to your own application under God’s command. I cannot make rules for you. The most I am permitted to do is decide if your application conflicts with … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, epistemology, intellect, mysticism, psychology, scripture, spirituality
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