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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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Tagged browsers, compsec, computers, covenant of moses, hebrew culture, Judaizers, mortality, mysticism, scripture
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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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Tagged biblical morality, culture, moral obligations, mortality, scripture, social conditioning, society, spirituality
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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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Tagged ancient civilizations, Catacomb, evangelism, government, moral imperative, mortality, oppression, persecution, Richard Wurmbrand
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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
Job 39
Is it so hard to imagine that God would speak to man in his own language? And is it so hard to imagine God would use a man’s own cultural images? Some cultures and languages do lend themselves much better … Continue reading
In the Eye of the Storm
This evening I’m going all the way back to my original purpose for this blog. I’m bursting; writing about it with the awareness others might read it will help me juggle with some added clarity. You could call this serious … Continue reading
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Tagged mission, mortality, spirit realm, spirituality
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Job 37
The literary purpose of Elihu’s final words here open the door to what God intends to say when He speaks about this whole thing. To see the whole point of all this, we take a moment to review how we … Continue reading
Sacrificial Instinct
We have a dozen words that could serve as synonyms for “love” in various contexts, but it is a testimony to the failure of Anglo-American culture that we still abuse the word with such ambiguity. We confuse it intentionally; we … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglo-American culture, blogging, human intelligence, mortality, spirituality, writing
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Measured by the Cross
There’s a time and place in divine justice for failure. Who calls Jesus’ crucifixion a success? Sometimes it’s not a matter of winning, but of losing well. In some contexts, no single answer you can see is best. We are … Continue reading
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Tagged divine justice, Jesus' crucifixion, mortality, mysticism, psychology, spirituality
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Job 36
Context is everything. To our Western eyes trained to read literally, this chapter could seem no different from what the trio said. However, Elihu has established already that he is not on their path. Thus, the same words in the … Continue reading
Posted in bible
Tagged Elihu, epistemology, Job, mortality, mysticism, religion, spirituality
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