I wasn’t going to post links to these, but I I decided “why not?” Here is my series (in order) so far over on the Logos Academic blog. My weekly “column” is called Unfiltered Fridays. You can decide if I’m cranky enough.
Unfiltered Fridays: Getting Serious—and Being Honest—about Interpreting the Bible in Context
Unfiltered Fridays: Sincerity and the Supernatural
Unfiltered Fridays: Let the Bible Be What It Is
Unfiltered Fridays: Inspiration Was a Process, Not an Event
Unfiltered Fridays: All Your Genesis Commentaries Are 8-Track Tapes
Unfiltered Fridays: Bible Reading and Bible Memorization Are Not Bible Study
Unfiltered Fridays: Bad Bible Interpretation Really Can Hurt People
Dear Mr Grumpy,
RE: 8-track tapes
(HEH!)
RE: UnSeenR
Who’s printing’ that thing?
Guttenberg?
RE: DDD
Finally got here. Sadly unused 🙁
Looks like shelved store copy.
Binding detective thinks it was only, ever opened to “Jezabel”. Go figger.
Texted daughter (30/married/UF/Japanese-Anthropology(?)) nerd-v-nerd. She wanted to know if there was an entry for “Steve”. (*busted*)…
S.B.Parker, “Council” entry is now sufficiently coffee stained.
MIDDAY DEMON-
Jerome, Latin-rendered, “the bite of insanity at midday”.
I suspect the enjoyment and just flat-out fun of reading about ancient(modern?) B-team-bad-guys and demons says more about me than it does about ‘them’.
Thanks Again/Best.
To funny Max ! Maybe it is a good thing for us all that Gutenburg is doing this,slow us down. But I was kind of wondering the same thing, God useing Jezabel.
I laughed at the Gutenburg line, too.
What I’ve read sounds like a good basis for the God of the gaps. As academia learns more and more, God gets smaller and smaller. Perhaps he’ll disappear altogether. There’s no place for the Holy Spirit.
This comment is about what is written in the one link about the biblical writers ” Science” May God give us the excellency of unity for wisdom in giving people light and purness of revelation here. I hope this post will be fun and life-giving ,as we expound and interact with it. What God is showing here, is a take off from what you said in your other post Mike, about Platonic influence. That was enlightening to me , and it made me think about putting this whole issue of what we SAY ,we hold to as “science “, in the way we look at worldviews today . I just dont see the idea that the ancients SERIOUSLY believed that the earth was supported by pillars etc. And this is where the ” way we look at world views today “comes in. The ancient astronaut thing is one example. I mean I could go up to a group of people on the street corner and start talking about these things and someone would say” Ya dude, did you know that we have found out that alien creatures came to earth and did this and that etc” But does that guy SERIOUSLY believe that? Do you see the point? Or let me put it another way. The writers of the Bible where saying what they did about pillars, and so forth, but didn’t actually THINK that. That way we can dismiss the silly notion WITHOUT making THEM stupid. Do we see this ? I know this is jumping ahead of the thing you are trying to teach people basically, but it was the FIRST thing I thought of when I read that , and I am descerning it might be the same way with others. So to circle back around to the Platonic issue, don’t you think in the same way, the writers in the NT might of been just USEING some of the Platonic ideas without actually believing them as such? That way again, we can dismiss some of their notions, without making THEM stupid. And also at the same time then, giving their writings the place and glory of GODS REVELATION without having to say that the biblical writers were “unscientific,or didn’t have the pure knowledge ,and GODS knowledge,with speaking in the world views of their tiime” Let me put this even another way. We who have the Spirit of God can look ahead and know, that the Hydroggen Collider is not going to discover anything that is not going to follow the law of the spirit of Christ, which is one spirit submitting to the Another, God . All elements operate according to this principle ( or not)The simple Key to the universe ,right there. So therefore, the biblical writers had ALL knowledge just like they say. I mean, if we are going to be coherent here, don’t we have see that the biblical writers claimed in various places to have All knowledge? to connect the Great Allness of God in Theology here ?
The ancients had no way of knowing how the earth was what it was one way of the other. These are pre-scientific conceptions and metaphors. My guess is that some believed the picture, others didn’t. But none of them believed what we believe because of science.
It’s not a question of intelligence. It’s a question of data and exposure to data. Data and intelligence are not synonyms.
There are some interesting comments on your Unfiltered Fridays blog over at Logos. Are you planning on interacting with any of them? Although I think I can anticipate your reply to a number of the items, I would nevertheless be curious to know your response to several of the issues that were brought up.
I don’t plan to interact on that blog. I can’t keep up with this one.
Everybody misunderstood, or overstated, your entry:
Unfiltered Fridays: All Your Genesis Commentaries Are 8-Track Tapes
Maybe you should create a rejoinder.
I basically don’t interact on that blog. I can’t keep up with this one.
Can we have an imaginary conversation with an ancient? -A for Ancient, P for Contemporary person from here on–A is well deservedly Sitting there , after a days healthy labour, going to his daily prayer spot on a God blessed mountain–contemplating things of the highest Theology discussions, like the ones Mike Heiser , that Biblical scholar known for his Pug dog , has partaken in. C , in a transport back in time, comes puffing along,and A, having long ago aquired the ability of prognition, says, “greetings, God told me you were coming.”–C says,” Tell me, why did you ancients write things like the earth being supported by pillars,the sky being metal, and many such things as these” ? A–Oh, your talking about the Texts we wrote, we wanted to be hip with what people were talking about at the local Star -gazing bucks ,and give them actualy Theology from Gods Spirit” C–“But you guys were so unknowing back then, about what we know now “A— “Know ? Do you realize that almost All of your contemporary “science”is based on many, many proud pre-sumptions?” You C,s have been led down a road by Ha Saten,that focuses on some kind of weird MATERIAL knowledge,with out God, you have almost totally gone off course , without the base”–Stupid, we dont actually believe that pillars stuff, we were just useing that Star-gazing bucks group kind of stuff. You were Supposed to be reading what we wrote more like a Novel !–THINK ONLY SPIRITUALLY, the way we meant it, you guys,I mean, we didnt even have a consciousness of what you C,s are calling science, WITHOUT GOD, and quit imaging these ideas about us A,s as these stupid people who didnt have have the sense to sanctify ourselves from un-spiritual GOD forsaking thought !–Now grace and love to you, God will lead you into All truth “
This made me wonder what’s out on the web about our pug!