So far, my reading in Pageau’s The Language of Genesis is consistent with what I spent five decades learning about the biblical Hebrew metaphysics. Like Heiser, he brings a stronger and broader knowledge of things I could see only in glimpses, bits and pieces through the veil of human frailty. These men were appointed by…
Tag: Hebrew mindset
The Whole Command 02
We left off in yesterday’s post with this… To summarize the distinctions: (1) eternal spiritual birth (grace) was always available to the Elect since before Creation; (2) the higher moral obligation of personal feudal submission was inherent in the Flaming Sword (mercy) and all the rest of God’s revelation. Feudal submission did not in itself…
9 Feet Thick
As a teenager, I spent time with a lay minister in local missions. One of his signature statements was that the pages of the Bible are nine feet thick. He didn’t know the half of it. Someone sent me a book: The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis by Matthieu Pageau. It is not…
My Two Cents: Spirit Guides
I know I’m not working alone. There are other bloggers who share their convictions about faith and all the ways we express our commitments to Christ. Something about the content we offer, and the packaging in which we offer it, causes readers to associate some of us together in their minds. While I’m aware of…
Mindwar
One of our fundamental teachings is that the nature of the Fall was choosing to trust human perception to answer the question of what is good and evil. Morality is thus determined from the inside, not from the Source external to us. And morality becomes a matter of convenience, as opposed to a system by…
No Time to Waste
We’ve said this before: God didn’t choose Israel; He built the nation from scratch. They were His means of revelation. Their language was perfect for the job, and their culture was what He made of their humble beginnings. Their intellectual heritage was exactly what people needed to have in their heads in order to understand…