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My Father’s World, Part 4

In the moral realm, the supernatural is natural; the paranormal is normal. Creation is loaded with manifestations of God’s glory and power. Why stop with spooky stuff? Human existence is filled with things that man’s intellect could never understand. If … Continue reading

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My Father’s World, Part 1

When we read the Bible, we are facing two layers of false mythology. The first is the underlying bias of the translators. In the US, our religious culture is largely the product of the Anglo-Saxon biases behind the King James … Continue reading

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Bibliography

Aside from the lightweight references I used in my A Course in Biblical Mysticism, some of you may take an interest in looking more at some of my studies on the background of the Bible. Old Testament Survey: The Message, … Continue reading

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Ancient Truth: Acts Updated

I finished reviewing and reformatting my Bible study notes on Acts. You can see them here. This one actually saw significant revision. I added a few historical details and found several places where the narrative was rather confusing. At any … Continue reading

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Only What’s In Your Hands

I’m posting this late in the evening because I had to let it percolate into my soul all day before I knew what to say. This is an issue of biblical justice, not doctrine. Indeed, the whole thing rests squarely … Continue reading

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Divine Amplification

We can never accurately predict actual outcomes. I am acquainted with the Social Sciences and the reasons they exist. It’s an attempt to analyze human behavior at large and quantify what goes in and what comes out. There is a … Continue reading

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Sources

The Root of Faith (Radix Fidem) is in the heart; the Sources of Faith are the hand of God in your environment. Some of you may have been following my conversation with Steven on various points of faith and religion. … Continue reading

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Legitimate Suffering

Re: Suffering Is Your Ally — Steven raises a common and important issue Westerners have with suffering and pain. On the one extreme, we have a typically middle-class American doctrine in the Prosperity Gospel. This idea stands on the ancient … Continue reading

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Pastoral Letters Updated

The short Bible notes on Paul’s Pastoral Letters has been updated and reformatted. You can see it here (gone now). As always, if you simply save the single HTML page as it is, all the formatting comes with it. Update: … Continue reading

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Admin: Review of Paul’s Letters Complete

I’ve posted the updated review and reformatted HTML version of Ancient Truth: Paul’s Letters. You can see it here (gone). Update: This document was lost in the transition between computers.

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