We are reminded that the typical skilled trades of the Old Testament had a lot in common, each being seen as expressions of building and creating space. In my opinion, Pageau probably belabors the point a bit much, so I won’t recount all the details. The idea is that purposeful labor was seen as joining…
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Sleep and Work
Pageau reiterates the concept of a work/sleep cycle imposed on the flesh after the Fall. He also builds on the concept of how clothing became a necessity because mortal flesh is just a part of the natural world and requires protection. This is on the personal level. On a community level, the “covering” is a…
Living Under Space-Time
It’s a common doctrine in many churches and denominations that sin can be defined as arguing with God. This can be stated in many different ways to get the same basic concept. It’s anything except the one thing God said. Pageau’s definition is consistent with this. However, he uses the terminology and concepts he’s already…
Left and Right
On the one hand, the Bible clearly accepts that left-handed people are normal and okay; the Benjamites included a lot of lefty warriors. However that does not take away from the mythology about the left being awkward compared to the right in most of the human race. Nobody took it personally; it was just the…
Death and Life Paradox
Yesterday, someone noticed that I didn’t have a full equivalence between the Bible study of Ephesians 1 and Pageau’s discussion of the various levels. Paul’s letter had three levels, but Pageau only gave us two — cosmic and worldwide. The personal level was missing. Until the next two chapters, which we will examine in this…
Scales of Balance
An adjunct to the Radix Fidem community Bible lesson this week discussed how Ephesians 1:3-14 views the work of God on three levels. How do we know Christ? Because the Holy Spirit lives in our hearts and glorifies Him as our Lord. How do we know the Father? Because Christ is His Son and our…
Decorate or Die
Pageau’s book gets more and more challenging to comprehend. It shows up in how his writing is sometimes hard to follow. How do you say these things in a language that resists the very existence of Eternity? We discussed how, in Hebrew thinking, time and space are opposites. We’ve established that they must remain in…
Formation versus Transformation
In Chapter 36 of The Language of Creation, Pageau says something very important for us to catch. The modern western world is fundamentally utilitarian and materialistic. Our instinct is to inject that into everything we think, do and say. It infests our struggle to understand God’s Word the way He intended. This mental frame of…
Sands of Time Destroying Faith
If you can understand that seas symbolize time, chaos and entropy, while trees and mountains represent space, stability and security, then you are ready for taking things just a bit farther. Pageau’s The Language of Creation teaches us that time is also associated with a wheel spinning on its axle, round and without end. It…
Time and Space
One of the things Pageau doesn’t point out directly in his The Language of Creation is that, in the Hebrew mindset, we don’t need to understand the mechanism of things we encounter in our fallen world. There’s nothing wrong with it, but it’s not necessary to serve the Lord. Rather, the emphasis in Scripture is…