In the Hebrew culture, the concept of holiness and purity was mostly a matter of separation. Something or someone was pulled apart from the common, high traffic use and reserved for God alone. This carries forward from the previous lesson on Pageau’s book in which we talked about the mixing of the flood and simplicity…
Month: February 2024
Formation versus Transformation
In Chapter 36 of The Language of Creation, Pageau says something very important for us to catch. The modern western world is fundamentally utilitarian and materialistic. Our instinct is to inject that into everything we think, do and say. It infests our struggle to understand God’s Word the way He intended. This mental frame of…
Sands of Time Destroying Faith
If you can understand that seas symbolize time, chaos and entropy, while trees and mountains represent space, stability and security, then you are ready for taking things just a bit farther. Pageau’s The Language of Creation teaches us that time is also associated with a wheel spinning on its axle, round and without end. It…
More on Decision Theology
Decision Theology is the notion that anyone in the whole world can simply make a decision in their minds to convert to following Christ, and God will honor it, and that person will be born again. Notice that the missing ingredient is saving faith. I can’t count how many times preachers from all sizes of…
The Father of Big Eva
I hope I’ve made it clear that Radix Fidem is not a part of the evangelical movement. I’m not saying evies can’t enjoy some of what we have to say, but that we don’t promote the doctrines associated with evangelicals. Surely, the things we’ve taught here would have turned them off. We do not support…
Overwhelming Forces
So far, my reading in Pageau’s The Language of Genesis is consistent with what I spent five decades learning about the biblical Hebrew metaphysics. Like Heiser, he brings a stronger and broader knowledge of things I could see only in glimpses, bits and pieces through the veil of human frailty. These men were appointed by…
Day of Destruction Coming
If you can grasp the necessity of war, then you can understand why the imagery of war pervades the New Testament. You can also absorb the necessity of keeping peace with God by conducting war on His terms. If it must happen, let’s promote doing it right. This is why I went to the trouble…
The Doctrine of War
Do you understand that the only peace that matters is peace with God? First, a little context: Covenant family should love each other without reservation. We should care about our allies, treat well those pagans who are of some use to us, and even be ready to shame our enemies by acting more forgiving then…
Time and Space
One of the things Pageau doesn’t point out directly in his The Language of Creation is that, in the Hebrew mindset, we don’t need to understand the mechanism of things we encounter in our fallen world. There’s nothing wrong with it, but it’s not necessary to serve the Lord. Rather, the emphasis in Scripture is…
Not Calvinist, Not Reformed
I’ve run into this too many times: Radix Fidem is not Calvinist. Most assuredly not, because Calvinism rests on western reasoning, and we reject that a priori. The first solid inkling of predestination was a part of the Augustinian academic traditions, and they hit the Christian religion hard with Martin Luther before he even broke…