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Can You See the Vision?
It’s a parallel society. Keep in mind that in most biblical usage, “the world” is the fallen human society without redemption. It’s the same Creation, but with a blinding veil of concrete reality, eating from the Forbidden Fruit of Knowledge … Continue reading
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Tagged communion, evangelism, fellowship, heart-led, virtual parish, western christianity
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Faith Does Not Compute
Here we take a short tour through the history of Western Christian theology. Our attention is focused on the business of fallen nature and human reason. First, we have to understand that Hebrew Scriptures assume a wholly different anthropology from … Continue reading
Posted in teaching
Tagged epistemology, faith, fallen nature, Hebrew Mysticism, intellect, religion, scripture, theology, western christianity
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Potty Mouth
Our society’s obsession with cursing and foul language shows up as both a prissy objection to it, as well as a rejection of that standard by free use of such language. Yet even those who approve of cursing get tired … Continue reading
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Tagged grammar, human behavior, languages, psychology, racism, social mythology, western christianity, Western society
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Heartless Evangelism
Our apartment complex has a posted sign about no solicitation. Once that sign is posted, you have to get management’s permission for any random door-knocking. Court precedent in this state has made it clear that door-knocking evangelism is covered under … Continue reading
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Tagged evangelism, heart-mind, propaganda, psychology, resistance, social mythology, western christianity
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Understanding Divine Mercy
As a whole, Western Christianity gets forgiveness alarmingly wrong. King David committed horrid crimes. We read in 2 Samuel 11-12 of his adultery and murder. On the one hand, he was the king of what was then a very powerful … Continue reading
Posted in prophecy
Tagged ancient hebrew culture, divine justice, divine mercy, epistemology, King David, King Solomon, Law of Moses, scripture, understanding God, western christianity, western civilization, western intellectual heritage
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Heaven, Hell and Here
This isn’t theology, as if God and His revelation could be subjected to human reason. This is doctrine in the sense of teaching that serves to characterize my limited understanding. Teaching is pulling down out of my heart the moral … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, conscious awareness, Hebrew Mysticism, mysticism, New Testament, scripture, spirituality, symbolic logic, western bias, western christianity, Western mythology
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Latest Edition of the Tower of Babel
I’ve noted often that if you evaluate Western Civilization by Western values, it’s hard to notice the flaws. There are different kinds and levels of systems, but Western Civilization as a system is devoted to proving the system is right. … Continue reading
Posted in globalism
Tagged civilization, divine justice, economics, mysticism, oppression, resistance, revelation, spirituality, The Cult, tribal society, western christianity, western civilization
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Heartless and Perverse Society
Most folks don’t get quite what we mean by characterizing Western social mythology as bizarre. It has a thousand bogus and immoral features, but I’ll pick out one that seems to represent the worst of it: one-way attachment. In Ancient … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, civilization, feudalism, heart-mind, sensory heart, social sciences, spirituality, western christianity, Western mythology, Western society
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Serene to the End: Apostle John
Mainstream scholars are pretty sure John published the Apocalypse around 95 AD. Given what we know of the man, it’s a fair bet most of it was already burned into his awareness at least two decades before. Keep in mind, … Continue reading
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Tagged Apostle John, Apostle Paul, epistemology, gnostic heresies, government, historical context of the bible, jesus the man, Judaizers, Pharisaical Hellenism, Pharisee, western christianity
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