An adjunct to the Radix Fidem community Bible lesson this week discussed how Ephesians 1:3-14 views the work of God on three levels. How do we know Christ? Because the Holy Spirit lives in our hearts and glorifies Him as our Lord. How do we know the Father? Because Christ is His Son and our…
Tag: Creation
Nature of Evil
In the Bible, good and evil are inherently contextual. The context is us; it applies to us alone, not the whole universe. In yesterday’s post, I mentioned that the Bible doesn’t use the word “evil” the way we do in English. It is not an absolute quality, but limited to the context. When God says…
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…
The Whole Command 03
In yesterday’s post I left off with the implication that the Hebrew mystical outlook is as close to the eternal outlook as we can get. To follow Christ is to become more Hebraic in your mental organization. If you want to make Christian religion a body of teaching, then that body of teaching must include…
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…
Enemies of the Gospel
I keep bumping into this. People who should know better struggle to understand the Hebrew perspective on things. One of the lies peculiar to the West is the notion that the natural world does not care about you as an individual. Well, all of Creation cares the way God cares. This is more a lie…
Part of the Calculus
We need to replace our western mythology. When Christ returns, it will be the end of this world. The reference here is to our fallen condition, our mortal existence as part of the natural world. The rest of creation is not fallen; it will not end. Time and space will not end. The only thing…
Help Our Unbelief
If you can take seriously the business of communing with nature through your heart, then you realize that this world is far less threatening that most westerners imagine. First, we need to deal with a bit of complication. You may know that the West is a convergence of the Greco-Roman Civilization and tribal Germanic barbarians…
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…