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Gentle Heart
It’s a simple idea: Gentle is the opposite of brutal. Whenever I have encountered folks with a brutal streak, it boils down to a handful of things, sometimes in combination — self-righteousness, genuine hatred (rejoicing in someone else’s suffering), other … Continue reading
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Proverbs 13
1. A wise son heeds his father’s instruction, but a scorner does not hear rebuke. The Western approach makes this a matter of inflated reverence, even fearfulness, for the social system. Hebrew folks were not like that; there is no … Continue reading
Proverbs 12
We start to see a number of proverbs that appear little more than statements of obvious fact. These are most likely figures of speech meant to apply quite broadly as parables of something deeper. 1. Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge; … Continue reading
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Heart: Awake and Clear
We have two concerns when we study how the Hebrew and other ANE cultures took seriously the heart as a superior intelligence. First, we have a massive barrier in the form of Western Civilization. It’s not enough that the West … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, aristotelian logic, civilization, epistemology, Hebrew language, mysticism, philosophy, quantum reasoning, scripture, sensory heart, spirituality, western civilization, Western mythology
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Proverbs 11 (Part 2)
16. A gracious woman keeps honor, and the strong keep riches. This one is a little ambiguous and often mistranslated. The image is not a contrast between men and women, but a woman who either acts like a lady or … Continue reading
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Proverbs 11 (Part 1)
(This chapter in Proverbs is a little long with my commentary, so I won’t burden you with more than the first half. We’ll cover the second half later.) We begin to see a more frequent grouping of proverbs by common … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient hebrew culture, moral character, proverbs, righteousness, scripture, wisdom literature
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Room for Fellowship
I really do not like the way they have gone in recent years, but I’ll never forget some of the earlier stuff by Phillips, Craig and Dean. I’m not thrilled with all of the video, but this song is my … Continue reading
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Notes on the Cult of Oester
So far as scholars can determine, there is only one source for the notion that Oester (or Eoster) was a genuine deity among the primitive Germanic tribes — Venerable Bede. The Brothers Grimm were convinced he was right, but aside … Continue reading
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Proverbs: Section 2
Section 2 — Chapters 10-29 In this section we will generally quote the proverbs verbatim, followed by an explanation. The Scripture text will taken be Green’s Modern King James Version (MKJV). Let’s take a moment to review a critical concept: … Continue reading
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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