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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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Tagged heart-mind, New Testament, scripture
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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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Tagged culture, epistemology, mysticism, peace, propaganda, scripture, superstition, western biases
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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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Tagged ANE, divine justice, economics, government, Noah's Covenant, oppression, propaganda, prophecy, scripture
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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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Tagged intellect, moral discernment, mysticism, scripture, sensory heart, social sciences, spirituality, western civilization
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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
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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Tagged heart-led, moral discernment, psychology, scripture, sorrow
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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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Tagged publishing, scripture, writing
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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 →