Tag Archives: scripture

New Series: Getting the Parables Right

Posted on October 22, 2012 by ehurst

Working title: Soul Seeds: Jesus’ Parables (SSJP) — One of the readers commenting on the previous book asked if I could explain some of the parables. I wrote these lessons some ten years ago. I’ve decided to update them in … Continue reading →

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We Don't Purge

Posted on October 21, 2012 by ehurst

Your first duty as a Christian Mystic is to know yourself. That encompasses a whole lot of territory. Jesus told the Samaritan woman at the well her religion was bogus, that Samaritans didn’t really know who God was. He also … Continue reading →

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Zephaniah 2

Posted on October 20, 2012 by ehurst

Having warned them Jehovah would bring His wrath upon all the known world in the previous chapter, Zephaniah warns the people of Judah they may as well gather themselves and save God the trouble. Like stalks and chaff from the … Continue reading →

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The Message Comes First

Posted on October 20, 2012 by ehurst

I am faithful to the Book according to its own message. I do not bring to it an overlay from some other, foreign culture and intellectual background. It’s evil to change the message that way. When we read the Book, … Continue reading →

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Prophetic View of NWO

Posted on October 18, 2012 by ehurst

Really, there’s not that much to this. People tend to misread the Bible, particularly books like Revelation. In case you didn’t get it, John is not foretelling specific events. He is attempting to reveal Jesus from the highly symbolic and … Continue reading →

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TMOC 9: Parables and Miracles

Posted on October 14, 2012 by ehurst

Throughout His ministry, Jesus spent a great deal of time teaching in parables. Even when it was easy enough to state things in more common terms, He insisted on using parables and symbolic speech. His disciples were vexed by this … Continue reading →

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Zephaniah — Intro and Chapter 1

Posted on October 13, 2012 by ehurst

Intro The great-grandson of King Hezekiah, Zephaniah was part of the royal clan, a near relative to King Manasseh under whose reign he was born. This was the infamous king who drug Judah into every imaginable form of idolatry and … Continue reading →

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TMOC 7: All in the Family

Posted on October 13, 2012 by ehurst

We know Jesus possessed a prophetic insight. Some of His decisions arise directly from that, but this does not remove the purely human motives which surely fed into some of those choices. Too often Western Christians paint the scenes of … Continue reading →

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TMOC 6: Messianic Expectations

Posted on October 13, 2012 by ehurst

(I debated including this, so I’d like some feedback as to whether my readers think it matters.) We simply cannot hope to understand some of the events and conversations in the Gospels without realizing just what the Jews had in … Continue reading →

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Epistemology and the Fall (Updated)

Posted on October 12, 2012 by ehurst

I’m getting a trickle of questions about Jesus’ behavior, enough to start an outline, but most of them are rather late in His ministry. For the next chapter of our book it seems obvious to discuss biographical background and some … Continue reading →

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