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Who Could Leave?
If you can begin to absorb the Hebrew outlook on time versus the western emphasis on efficiency, then you will understand the seeming lack of hurry for most things in Scripture. And the few times you read “make haste” become … Continue reading
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HTCG 03h
Chapter 3: Time and Space Section C: Space Part 3: The Boundless or the Infinite Boman surveys several different conceptions of infinity in the West. On the one hand, he says westerners strive too much to explain it. On the … Continue reading
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HTCG 03g
Chapter 3: Time and Space Section C: Space Part 1: Form Western thinking distinguishes between the form of space and time separately from the content. Boman says we can imagine both as empty, yet still existing as an entity of … Continue reading
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HTCG 03f
Chapter 3: Time and Space Section B: The Israelite Conception of Time Part 2: Psychic Time Subpart f: Contemporaneity Boman mentions Kierkegaard’s writing about taking faith and jumping across the ages to experience Christ and His life as if we … Continue reading
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HTCG 03e
Chapter 3: Time and Space Section B: The Israelite Conception of Time Part 2: Psychic Time Subpart c: The Time of History Boman takes a couple of pages to warn us that the western notion of time is quite confused. … Continue reading
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HTCG 03d
Chapter 3: Time and Space Section B: The Israelite Conception of Time Part 2: Psychic Time Subpart a: The Identity of Consciousness Western minds think of space as the place we exist. Time plays the same role for the Hebrews. … Continue reading
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HTCG 03c
Chapter 3: Time and Space Section B: The Israelite Conception of Time Part 1: The Time of Heavenly Luminaries Subpart c: Time-rhythms rather than Time-cycles or Time-lines We can be sure that humans and even animals sense the rhythms of … Continue reading
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HTCG 03b
Chapter 3: Time and Space Section B: The Israelite Conception of Time Part 1: The Time of Heavenly Luminaries Subpart a: The Uselessness of the Western Concept of Time Boman correctly notes that westerners are notorious for flatly ignoring any … Continue reading
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HTCG 03a
We are about halfway through this book, folks. It’s always a good thing to stand up and defend your position against better educated people. Boman is not stupid, but he has his own biases. Mine have been discussed here often … Continue reading
Long Before We Got There
Yesterday was both wonderful and awful for me. There is a common myth among believers that if you are suffering misfortune, it’s because you said or did something to which the Devil objects. You must be speaking the truth, because … Continue reading
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Tagged faith, providence, testimony, testing, the Spirit Realm, time and space
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