Spirit of the City

Robert Linthicum writes:
What do we feel in Calcutta or Moscow or Bangkok or Mexico City or Washington or Nairobi? I suggest that what we sense is the soul of that city, its inner spiritual essence. Every city has an angel who broods over it. These angels infuse and dominate the principalities and [...]

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Creator/Redeemer

Ok, given divine simplicity (et. al.), God’s relations to others as creator or redeemer are both names of the same thing. Redemption is simply God’s righteousness and power manifesting themselves (itself?) in fallen creation, and these are the very same things that created in the first place (since they are Jesus). Salvation is, [...]

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Postmil

So creation was simply God being God, although in a new and mysteriously free way, wherein He made an other to bring into His love. This has all been said before but it will take some explaining for us:
If, however, any one say, “What then? Could not God have exhibited man as perfect from [...]

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Tweaking Barfield and Evolution

In Romanticism Comes of Age, Barfield explains his twist on the theory of evolution:

If you want to represent the process of evolution diagrammatically, you must think, not as the evolutionary humanists do, of a straight line sloping on and on and on and up and up and up, but rather of a curve like a [...]

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Barfieldian Eschatology

Sadly I have to confess that I have only recently heard of Owen Barfield. Rich Bledsoe gave two lectures at last year’s Biblical Horizons Conference, and Barfield was his primary inspiration. I starting learning all sorts of new words and interesting, sometimes fantastic, concepts that, in a curious sort of way, demanded immediate [...]

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Israel’s Feast Days and the Sabbath

The nation of Israel had a liturgical calendar. There was the annual passover, the feast of tabernacles, the feast of trumpets, the day of atonement, and even the less regular jubilee. Special events went on during these times, as these feast days called to memory, both our’s and God’s, the covenant and the [...]

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Temple-Cosmology and Eschatology

Genesis 28:10-22 gives us a good description of the relationship between heaven and earth and their meeting place, the temple, the house of God.
Heaven is above the earth, and sheol is beneath it.  Angels inhabit the area between God and man in the old covenant, and they put man under the law and keep him [...]

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Death, The Instrument of Glory

We often think of death as a punishment.  This is most certainly correct in one regard.  Adam suffered the death penalty when he sinned.  Sin brought the sting of death.
However, the Bible also talks about another role for death.  It is the prerequisite for the new creation.  Two examples of this teaching are:
John 12:23-25
But Jesus [...]

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My Apology

Ok, so last night I was in Buford T. Justice mode or something. I should have expressed myself a little more professionally (though I’m not a professional), but alas, there is a little Luther left in us all. How about I try this again?
There are two major problems with the current state of [...]

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Baptism and “the Norm”

I’d just like to say that I look forward to the day when there will be no more adult baptisms.

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