by admin | Jun 23, 2012 | What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
Though I knew nothing of Freud and his theories about sex and aggression at the time, I had immediately equated sex and violence. I grew up in a fairly tough blue collar neighborhood. We boys fought all the time, mostly wrestling matches with an occasional blow with...
by admin | Jun 17, 2012 | What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
I’m not sure I know the answer to God’s treatment of Nadab and Abihu. And with me, there’s some real duplicity here. Though I’m not fond of the particular situation recorded in Leviticus, if Nadab and Abihu had been a couple of notorious child molesters, I’d be...
by admin | Jun 11, 2012 | What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
I have made a reasonably strong case that I should just shut up about the Bible. But I’m not going to do that. Measurements made from or to relative coordinates aren’t completely useless if one knows the position and velocity of those coordinates relative to one’s...
by admin | Jun 9, 2012 | Jesus' Artifacts, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
I’m not saying one word against the truth of the Bible, even its universal absolute truth. Believers, however, rarely argue among themselves that the Bible in all its context is the universal absolute truth. The arguments are over someone’s understanding of some...
by admin | Jun 6, 2012 | Jesus' Artifacts, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
Yes, systems of theology fail in their primary attempt and alleged purpose to sum up the Bible in a complete, universal and absolute way. Every theological system I’ve encountered (or might invent) was based on favored passages of scripture. Then a logical system...
by admin | Jun 3, 2012 | Jesus' Artifacts, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?
Now preachers have no more innate knowledge of the outline of the body of Christ or the needs and functions of any particular cell at any particular moment than I do. So I hope that when they enter their quiet inner rooms to study, they are in deep communion with the...