The book says it best: Our confidence in a stable and orderly universe leads us to prioritize rules over relationships, but it does more than that. The Western commitment to rules and laws make it difficult for us to imagine a valid rule to which there may be valid exceptions. When we begin to think…
Tag: reality
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…
The Big Takedown
I would have thought it wasn’t necessary to state that the Radix Fidem path rejects Thomism (the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas). But I believe a bigger problem is that most people have no idea how influential Thomas Aquinas was and still is in Christian religion today. Thomism remains the foundation of most Protestant theology, even…
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…