I have one final word on the support for radically unfettered information access and transmission on the Net and how censoring anything at all is a threat to gospel in the virtual world. In the real world, censorship of harmful information is a moral necessity. Online, it is immoral. Again: The Internet, and the devices…
Tag: gospel message
Mission of Dissent 03
The Virtual World — the Internet — is its own thing. In its current manifestation, it is entirely binary. Most humans currently using the Net prefer to think binary. It’s either on or off, there or not there. It’s not that we actually are binary, but western culture tends to simplify everything to fit that…
Carrying the Fire
People who make their living from blogging tend to push the Armageddon stories because that keeps the readers interested. I’m not making a dime, so any mention I make of tribulation and apocalypse are not mere entertainment. Somewhere out there in the future, we know that bad stuff will happen. It’s not an intellectual exercise…
Been with Jesus
Some of you aren’t going to understand this, but I’m obliged to try. Radix Fidem teaching assumes that the concept of “propositional truth” is bogus. That concept is inherently anti-faith. Your brain cannot perceive divine truth. Your heart can, but anything that comes into your brain from the heart is necessarily interpreted into context. The…
A Different Kind of Censorship
Well, I had a post all written up for today, but it disappeared. It was saved to my OneDrive account. I checked yesterday because I always reread and edit them one last time before posting. It was gone. I’m not a paranoid kind of guy, but I’m pretty sure now that my OneDrive account was…
Reclamation and Restoration
When Caesar released Paul from the Sanhedrin’s complaint against him, we are pretty sure the apostle went to Spain. If you can absorb the Hebrew thinking on prophecy, then you would understand that this represents the farthest reach of the nations mentioned in the Tower of Babel narrative. Paul was simply trying to fill up…
The Message Is Not Data
Let’s wrap up Bailey’s book, Jesus through Middle Eastern Eyes. We make philosophical distinctions, statements that separate us from the world. We believe and proclaim the gospel, a collection of things inherently “impossible” by human reckoning. The fundamental reason is that we do not rely on human reckoning to arrive at our message. Do you…
JTMEE: Chapter 17
This is the Woman Caught in Adultery, though you may see the fancy Latin term Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11). It is hotly debated whether it belongs in the Bible, because it’s pretty clear it doesn’t belong to John. Still, the lesson should be obvious either way: Jesus calls into question the standing the Jewish leadership…
Misreading Scripture: Self 02
“For I know what I have planned for you,” says the LORD. “I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11 NET) The next section of the book chapter rehashes the warning not to pull passages from their context, like Jeremiah…