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Psalm 67
David specifies that this psalm is best with stringed instruments. It’s easy to miss the profound thoughts carried in so few words. We should examine the contextual meaning of the phrases here. Even if Israel failed often as a nation … Continue reading
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Tagged Creation, divine justice, Israel, King David, Psalms, revelation, stringed instruments, worship
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The Cult, Part 2
Throughout recorded history, Jews have had a tough time with everyone else. That the rabbinate became Hellenized does not mean they were Hellenic. I refer to it often as a bastardized intellectual shift because it is not exactly a full … Continue reading
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Tagged epistemology, hebrew prophets, history, intellect, Israel, oppression, philosophy, propaganda, scripture
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The Cult, Part 1
There is a secretive cabal committed to enslaving humanity to their agenda. Try to understand that my use of the term “cult” here does not signal a discrete organization as we might typically expect from our cultural mythology. In fact, … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, civilization, cult, divine revelation, epistemology, flaming sword, history, intellect, Israel, mysticism, philosophy, revelation, scripture
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Psalm 60
The header references a tune David called “Lily of Testimony” and events narrated in 2 Samuel 8. We catch only some vague hint that David’s source of trouble is likely something to do with Edom. We might reasonably guess that … Continue reading
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Tagged Edom, Israel, King David, old testament history, Psalms, survival, war, wisdom literature
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Our Witness
We are aliens. If you follow much of my teaching on this blog, there’s a pretty good chance you would be alien even to Petra, the band who recorded this song more than thirty years ago. They were fairly generic … Continue reading
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Tagged Contemporary Christian, evangelism, Hippie Jesus Freak Movement, Israel, mysticism, Petra, religion, spirituality
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Psalm 47
This second song in a trilogy has become the source for quite a number of hymns and praise songs in recent decades. The first half serves to justify the rest. In these first four verses, this psalm written by the … Continue reading
Psalm 44
Western scholars seem to be unsure whether the Sons of Korah wrote this or if it was simply dedicated to them. English translations vary on whether it is “by” or “for” them. Even more disturbing is the insinuation by Western … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient hebrew culture, ANE, human suffering, Israel, Job, mysticism, Psalms, Western scholars
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StT: Galatians 3:10-12
(A little more from Gospel Red Herring: Spiritualizing the Text.) Galatians 3:10-12 Westerners tend to demand a semantic precision that is often absent in the New Testament. In this context, Paul uses the term “law” (Grk: nomos) in place of … Continue reading
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Tagged covenants, epistemology, faith in God, Israel, Law Covenants, religion, the Covenant of Moses
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StT: Acts 8:32-33
(Another sample from Gospel Red Herring: Spiritualizing the Text.) In the prophetic literature of the Old Testament, Israel was characterized in many different ways. Sometimes as the land she occupied, or some of the fruit-bearing trees there, perhaps as a … Continue reading
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Tagged human suffering, Israel, mission, mortality, mysticism, prophet isaiah, scripture
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