Let me interject into the series today. Our weekly Skype meeting yesterday was like being lifted on eagles’ wings. I felt like I was in the company of giants, people with so much to share into my soul. It changes me for the better. Nothing in this world can replace the meaningful fellowship of covenant…
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Misreading Scripture: Honor/Shame 02
R/OB advance the warning that our usage — our pool of meaning — for the words “honor” and “shame” are not the same as they are for collective cultures. Shame indicates you know how to behave; that’s a good thing. However, shaming someone is a negative. In a footnote, they refer to Saul’s conversation with…
More on Decision Theology
Decision Theology is the notion that anyone in the whole world can simply make a decision in their minds to convert to following Christ, and God will honor it, and that person will be born again. Notice that the missing ingredient is saving faith. I can’t count how many times preachers from all sizes of…
Day of Destruction Coming
If you can grasp the necessity of war, then you can understand why the imagery of war pervades the New Testament. You can also absorb the necessity of keeping peace with God by conducting war on His terms. If it must happen, let’s promote doing it right. This is why I went to the trouble…
Grateful I’m Not Alone
I refer you to this week’s Radix Fidem community Bible study in Galatians 3. Radix Fidem says that we emphasize the continuity between the Old and New Testaments. That continuity most certainly includes the limitations of how much the Old Testament applies to us Gentiles in Christ. It is the Old Testament itself that testifies…
Above and Below
In Pageau’s The Language of Creation, the author is at pains to establish the duality of above and below. It can be expressed as heaven and earth, or seed and soil, enlightenment and obedience, or any number of other pairs. This is consistent with the Radix Fidem teaching of Two Realms, or Heiser’s Unseen Realm…
No Common Cause
Following Christ is all-inclusive. It is not simply a side-line, something you do separate from all the other stuff in your life. Either He is Lord of all, or not Lord at all. I’m getting some feedback indicating that some of my readers cling too tightly to what is proposed by various sources as the…
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…
The Great Leveler
It’s not hard to agree together that our government is evil. It would be evil no matter who took whatever office, because the system itself is a moral failure, a rejection of divine revelation. It is our mission to declare the gospel against the sins of the world, including the evil of our government. Because…
What’s Next
To say that “this ministry is under attack from Satan” would be accurate enough, but oversimplifying things. Most people who say things like that are trying to avoid discussing what to do about it. My use of computer technology is far more than a hobby. I’ve been poking around in computers since the DOS days…