The next three chapter cover dramatic acts of Jesus; some of the chapters are quite long. This next is the Call of Peter (Luke 5:1-11) and is relatively short. Bailey almost misses the point right off the bat with a Strawman argument. He talks about how Greeks thought the spirit realm was good and the…
Tag: Unseen Realm
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…
Multi-level Reckoning
We can understand the social sciences. Granted, the field is rife with sheer truculent stupidity and evil, but the broad knowledge of human nature is still there. We can still make sense of the data and analysis for things like economics and politics as long as you have no dog in the fight. The problem…
Powers and Authorities
Without any rhetorical explanation, you should understand how yesterday’s post renders human political concerns rather insignificant. We have far more important issues than to worry about the next shift in political winds. At the same time, it’s not to say there is nothing about human politics to discuss. Rather, they become a mundane concern, instead…
We Can’t Know
We cannot possibly comprehend Eternity. It is most certainly not “time without end” as is so popular in our culture. On the other hand, you also cannot say it is “without time”. I rather suspect the best we can say is that time becomes a manageable variable, just as space is for us now. Even…
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…
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…
What We Take for Granted
There seems to be some confusion about what Michael S. Heiser says in his several books explaining various aspects of the Unseen Realm from a Hebrew point of view. The confusion regards various roles, as to who can do what. Granted, there are some distinctions difficult to make. I’ve already noted how we cannot really…
Guardian Angels
I saw stories about the recent tornadoes in the southeastern states. In one case, a family survived through the destruction of their mobile home. Their four-month-old infant was found lying on a downed tree out in the yard uninjured. The mother insists it was by the grace of God. A common element in our American…