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What the Hell?
Some of you get it, but it seems there is enough confusion that I need to restate things for clarity. I use the English word “Hell.” If you have been paying attention, you’ll notice I use it in the vernacular … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, Creation, culture, epistemology, hebrew literature, intellect, languages, mortality, otherworldly, western civilization
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Psalm 90
Thus we begin the Fourth Book of Psalms. The psalms that follow are generally liturgical in nature, as are those of the Fifth Book. Perhaps it’s divided between 106 and 107 only for convenience in terms of size, because the … Continue reading
Psalm 49
We should not assume that figurative language indicates actual belief. The Ancient Near Eastern civilizations as whole generally avoided discussing the afterlife because they made no pretense of understanding it. Instead, they relied on a range of confused metaphors to … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, figurative language, human understanding, material wealth, moral character, mortality, mysticism, Psalms, spirituality
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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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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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Tagged Christ on the Cross, Hebrew Mysticism, human suffering, Jesus' crucifixion, King David, mortality, scripture, spirituality
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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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Tagged culture, mortality, oppression, propaganda, prophecy, scripture, war, western civilization
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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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Tagged civilization, experience, intellect, mortality, mysticism, philosophy, spirituality, subjective sense
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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
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged Anglo-Saxon, christian mysticism, civilization, culture, Jesus reinforced Moses, mortality, mysticism, politics, propaganda, Satan, scripture, spirituality
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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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Tagged Category Error, epistemology, Hebrew Scripture, history, intellect, intellectual traditions, mortality, mysticism, philosophy
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