In a previous post I referred to an article by Jayant Bhandari on Lew Rockwell’s site in which the author tells the damning truth about his homeland, India. Obviously, Bhandari is celebrating Western Civilization, but the meat of his article was the core issue of a high-trust versus low-trust society. In a follow-up article, Bhandari…
Tag: biblical feudalism
Church, Scripture and Heiser
A few questions came up. My answers, in more or less logical order… 1. Radix Fidem is a community of faith. The boundaries of inclusion are published. It’s not a catechism, nor even a statement of doctrine. The booklet is simply an outline of how we arrive at our teaching. The actual “church” has another…
Guardian Angels
I saw stories about the recent tornadoes in the southeastern states. In one case, a family survived through the destruction of their mobile home. Their four-month-old infant was found lying on a downed tree out in the yard uninjured. The mother insists it was by the grace of God. A common element in our American…
When Men Have Had Enough
Recall the biblical model of what men are like. Adam was preoccupied in the Garden, and failed to object to the Tempter’s message to Eve. He went along with it because he had more important things to worry about, managing the Garden and all. Maybe the job would get easier if he could decide for…
A Biblical Cosmology
This is going to be a bit long. Let’s review our imagery of biblical Hebrew cosmology, the metaphors used in Scripture to guide our thinking about how reality works. It is necessarily in the language of parables, but I am not afraid to guess about a more literal explanation at times. It relies some on…
The Radix Fidem Identity
How would I summarize the Radix Fidem path? It started with a genuine faith, but the line of departure from the mainstream of Christian religion was what some have called an obsession: We must understand the Bible from within itself. At some critical juncture in my spiritual formation, someone taught me: “The Bible is an…
Introducing Spiritual Info-warfare
As Fun_and_Prophet noted in a comment on the “Testimonial Weapons” post, some of you might find useful a guide to spiritual warfare cast as a procedure of steps. Keep in mind that this is a logical sequence, not necessarily how you would experience it. Most of us are facing multiple threats, and our attention would…