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June 30, 2020 - February 24, 2021
immediately set to work trying to find answers. I soon discovered that the ground I was exploring was a place where evangelicals had feared to tread.
So the shaking begins...soon it will become experience, soon where I will live and move and have my being.
June 30, 2020.
beyond the world of evangelical scholarship,
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My conscience wouldn’t let me ignore my own Bible in order to retain the theology with which I was comfortable.
The heart is ever restless .
That journey has taken fifteen years, and it has led to this book. The path has not been easy. It came with risk and discomfort. Friends, pastors, and colleagues at times misunderstood my questions and my rebuttals of their proposed answers. Conversations didn’t always end well. That sort of thing happens when you demand that creeds and traditions get in line behind the biblical text.
However at age 72 I have a urgency to step across the threshold as a glimpse as to nature as to my dwelling place for eternity according to scripture .
nerdvana,
Psalm 82 has at its core the unseen realm and its interaction with the human world.
the intersection of our domain and the unseen
world—which includes the triune God, but also a much more numerous cast—is at the he...
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1.We’ve
We’ve been trained to think that the history of Christianity is the true context of the Bible
The biblical text was produced by men who lived in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean between the second millennium BC and the first century AD.
Thus the reading of Will & Ariel Durant The History of Civilization Volume 1
2.We’ve
We’ve been desensitized to the vitality and theological importance of the unseen world
shortcomings
First,
many Christians claim to believe in the supernatural but think (and live) like skeptics.
second
serious shortcoming is evident within the charismatic movement: the elevation of experience over Scripture.
Spent much time there, Whole Word essential not just focusing on the Book of Acts, feelings and Gifts of the Spirit, but also the Fruit of the Spirit .
framed
largely by experience and an idiosyncratic reading of the book of Acts.
Modern Christianity’s view of the unseen world isn’t framed by the ancient worldview of the biblical writers.
