A question came up during our weekly Skype chat. When discussing the narrative of the Fall, we aren’t given much except parables and symbolism. The honest truth is that we have very few details, and what we do have does not lend itself to easy discussion in concrete terms. There is some literature outside the…
Month: June 2024
Keep Your Hands on the Cross
We don’t hate the flesh; we use it. We just don’t let it rule. One of the biggest themes in Jesus’ teaching was divine priorities. What really mattered to God? It was the question everyone would have been asking had He been a visible suzerain on the earth. His subjects would have been studying His…
In Plain View
I have one mission: to find my spiritual family. From the human position, I have no idea who most of them are. My heart knows they are out there, and I long to fellowship with them. I want them to come in from the cold. I’m a shepherd seeking the lost sheep; I’m calling out…
Fallen from Inception
The basic shape of human history has always been in the hands of God and His elohim councilors. It serves no purpose to blame this or that generation, aside from noting that we are all being tempted 24/7 with things that will only hurt us. No generation is immune; each falls on its own brand…
They Are Incapable
It’s been a very long time since anyone has asked me about proof for the existence of God, but it happened again recently. The Radix Fidem teaching is fairly simple: There is no proof. It’s strictly a matter of faith. To elaborate, flesh cannot know God. Whether or not flesh believes in God is of…
A Kneeling Heart
The heart is where we know things that the mind cannot comprehend. It is where God speaks to us. When we consider God’s communications through that means, we need to keep in mind a basic principle: plausible deniability. God rarely compels fleshly will; He prefers to work through the subtle means of speaking to the…
The Essential Faculty
The heart is a distinct facility in the human soul, separate from the intellect. The literal organ is not just a blood pump, but a sensory organ. Scientists have discovered a magnetic field emanating from the heart, along with an unreadable, but very obvious, interaction with external life forms. But the Bible’s reference to the…
JHJR Recap
Once again: Israel Shahak is a Jewish professor in Israel spilling the beans on his own people and country. He has embraced what amounts to the philosophical orientation claimed by the West. As such, some of his criticism misses the point for us. We have no problem with Jews acting in their own national interest….
JHJR 05
Shahak warns us (page 84): Since 1967, as Israel becomes more and more ‘Jewish’, so its policies are influenced more by Jewish ideological considerations than by those of a coldly conceived imperial interest. This ideological influence is not usually perceived by foreign experts, who tend to ignore or downplay the influence of the Jewish religion…
JHJR 04
Shahak next discusses a bit about the Talmudic law. We get a rundown of how the Babylonian Talmud is actually too large for all but the most devoted scholars. There are various editions summarizing the massive code. Naturally things are slanted in favor of Jews. He outlines the crime of murder and how the penalties…