Tag Archives: mortality

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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Psalm 22

Christians have long recognized this as the Crucifixion Psalm. It’s not as if David necessarily foresaw precisely that form of torture and execution. Each item is recognized as a form of suffering, and David runs together all the different images … Continue reading

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Death and Hell Stalking Us

Maybe it’s not so different in substance; maybe this is just the veneer peeling away. Western Civilization is especially bad about forgetting the past in the sense that we have no ability to transmit from generation to generation what it … Continue reading

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It’s About Time

One of the things that makes us human is our awareness of time. That is, we are locked into a specific experience of time. While we do understand how the passage of time can be slowed or accelerated in our … Continue reading

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Otherworldly Messiah

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who … Continue reading

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Logic: Category Error

Someone offline asked for my explanation of Category Error. I’ve touched on this before. On this one I’m not happy with the way Wikipedia handles the topic, so I won’t refer to it. Perhaps my answer here will meet with … Continue reading

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Bits and Pieces 17

At various times you’ll see modern Judaizers. After two millennia they are still at it, trying to drag Christians back under the Talmud. They don’t like the academic label “Judaizers” and claim various other terms, but it changes nothing. The … Continue reading

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Moments of Moral Clarity

Sometimes those moments when the moral obligations are most obvious is when it hurts the most. In my world there is a particular person who is rather close, to the point of under my feet, as it were. This person … Continue reading

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Catacomb Chrisitianity

The unique volcanic soil on which Rome was built remains soft and easy to dig until exposed to air, then it hardens into a solid structure. We keep finding new warrens under Rome, typically segregated by religious traditions so that … Continue reading

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Job 40

Again we must renew our awareness that the text says Job did not sin, but that he went too far in his use of parabolic expression. He is not condemned here but corrected. Job got too wrapped up in answering … Continue reading

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