The Gospel & The Religious Mind
An attempt to distinguish the mind of Christ from the ordinary religious mind.

Jedidiah, Part 4

by | Jul 10, 2012 | Forgiveness, Jedidiah, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?

Look, you desire integrity in the inner man,1 David’s song continued.  This is a truth he learned the hard way with Bathsheba.  But I could hear the voice of Jesus, You have heard that it was said,2 “Do not commit adultery (μοιχεύσεις, a form of μοιχεύω).”  But I say...

Jedidiah, Part 3

by | Jul 6, 2012 | Forgiveness, Jedidiah, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?

Apparently God sent Nathan to forgive David while David still believed he had gotten away with his cover up.  God was certainly overreaching the limits of our contract.  More to the point, probably, He was shattering and prying away the pieces of the hard shell my...

Jedidiah, Part 2

by | Jul 2, 2012 | Forgiveness, Jedidiah, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?

Imagine if Bill Clinton or George W. Bush did what David did and got off like that.  But I’m more interested in knowing the only true God, and Jesus Christ,1 and trying to understand Him these days, than fretting over ancient history.  Besides, I’m nobody, and though...

Jedidiah, Part 1

by | Jun 26, 2012 | Forgiveness, Jedidiah, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?

I want to turn my attention to the circumstances when God named Solomon Jedidiah.  It all started one spring when King David didn’t go to war with his army.  He couldn’t sleep.  He got up and walked on the roof of his palace.  He saw a woman bathing.  Now David wasn’t...

Forgiveness and Denial of Christ

by | May 15, 2012 | Forgiveness, Introduction

Jesus gave his disciples the following rule (Matthew 10:32, 33 NET): Whoever, then, acknowledges (ὁμολογήσει, a form of ὁμολογέω) me before people, I will acknowledge (ὁμολογήσω, another form of ὁμολογέω) before my Father in heaven.1  But whoever denies (ἀρνήσηται, a...