Most church folks never really think about this: Following Christ is a radical change in your orientation on this life. We can hear and read talk using such language, but the pool of meaning is absent. Instead, most people simply incorporate Jesus into their existing orientation. They don’t have any trouble making Him the new…
Tag: Eternity
We Can’t Know
We cannot possibly comprehend Eternity. It is most certainly not “time without end” as is so popular in our culture. On the other hand, you also cannot say it is “without time”. I rather suspect the best we can say is that time becomes a manageable variable, just as space is for us now. Even…
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…
Faith in the Old Testament
In Chapter 1 of Heiser’s Demons, he mentions that Scripture itself leaves us hanging on some issues. From reading the Old Testament, we get the impression that Israelis who knew the Scriptures were unsure of their fates, both in this world and the next. The promises are vague on the latter, in particular, but natural…