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Kata Iwannhn » Ethics
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Next Page ». September 11, 2014. The “Pagan Origins” Fallacy. 8220;Christmas trees have pagan origins, so they’re bad. For that matter, Christmas and Easter have pagan origins, and so they’re bad. The theater has pagan origins, so it’s bad (and so are any other forms of acting).” And so on and so on. Heard anything like this? Godly people should have nothing to do with anything that (allegedly) has pagan origins. But does that mean that the godly must never use musical instruments? And therefore this arg...
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Kata Iwannhn » The “Pagan Origins” Fallacy
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September 11, 2014. The “Pagan Origins” Fallacy. 8220;Christmas trees have pagan origins, so they’re bad. For that matter, Christmas and Easter have pagan origins, and so they’re bad. The theater has pagan origins, so it’s bad (and so are any other forms of acting).” And so on and so on. Heard anything like this? Godly people should have nothing to do with anything that (allegedly) has pagan origins. But does that mean that the godly must never use musical instruments? And therefore this argument —...
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Kata Iwannhn » Samson the Prankster?
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September 1, 2014. Category: Bible - OT - Judges. As with Jephthah, so with Samson. Commentators seem to vie with one another in finding terms with which to vilify him. Robert O’Connell (. The Rhetoric of the Book of Judges. For instance, calls Samson a “self-gratifying brute” and “a prankish womanizer,” and says that his “acts of deliverance are rarely better than by-products of his spiteful nature.”. 8212; had in mind so that we can grow in wisdom ourselves. Posted by John Barach @ 3:03 pm Discuss (0).
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Kata Iwannhn » History
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Next Page ». January 16, 2015. One of Lewis’s female friends (and yes, he did have some! She writes about one meeting with Lewis and his brother, Major “Warnie” Lewis. Pitter had asked if she “might query him about the first of his children’s books,” and Lewis consented. She reports that the conversation went like this (Ruth Pitter, “Poet to Poet,” in. In Search of C. S. Lewis. Ed Stephen Schofield, 113):. PITTER: In the land of Narnia, the witch makes it always winter and never Christmas? You might be f...
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Kata Iwannhn » Did Jephthah Bribe God (Judges 11)?
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August 13, 2014. Did Jephthah Bribe God (Judges 11)? Category: Bible - OT - Judges. That’s certainly the impression you’d get from many commentaries. Barry Webb. And K Lawson Younger. Both say as much. In fact, in commentary after commentary, I hear that Jephthah’s vow in Judges 11 was manipulative, an attempt to bribe God into giving him victory. But what’s the evidence for that claim? Are all such vows manipulative? Are they all bribes? And yet it does. So how about starting with Hebrews 11 —...If we t...
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Kata Iwannhn » Expulsion from the Garden (Judges 8-9)
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August 13, 2014. Expulsion from the Garden (Judges 8-9). Category: Bible - OT - Judges. Adam grabs for the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and in the Bible the knowledge of good and evil is especially associated with the sort of wisdom that kings need. David has it and Solomon asks for it. Adam is grabbing for kingship and ends up expelled from the Garden so that he doesn’t enter into God’s rest. Posted by John Barach @ 2:50 pm Discuss (0). Mail (will not be published) (required). Bible – NT.
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Kata Iwannhn » Art
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March 21, 2007. Something to look forward to…. The latest novel from Gene Wolfe, coming out this fall. [HT: Irene Gallo. Posted by John Barach @ 1:30 pm Discuss (0). January 23, 2007.   Brian Doyle,. Leaping: Revelations and Epiphanies. Posted by John Barach @ 12:20 pm Discuss (0). January 22, 2007. Last week, I read Steve Turner’s. Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts.  I’d spotted it in the Medford Public Library and thought it looked interesting. And it was. The next circle is the kind...
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Kata Iwannhn » Samson the Womanizer?
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September 11, 2014. Category: Bible - OT - Judges. Samson, commentaries on Judges 14 tell me, was a womanizer. That’s probably because in Judges 16,. Samson visits a prostitute and then gets involved with Delilah … and the commentators then read those events back into Judges 14,. But what does Samson do in Judges 14? Is he driven here by sheer lust? What a lust-driven womanizer, huh? Commentaries puzzle me sometimes…. Posted by John Barach @ 1:01 pm Discuss (0). Mail (will not be published) (required).
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Kata Iwannhn » Head and Body in Judges
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August 13, 2014. Head and Body in Judges. Category: Bible - OT - Judges. One way to view the book of Judges is as a series of relationships between the head and the body:. The head wins the victory. The body is not mentioned. The head (Ehud) crushes the enemy’s head (Eglon). Then the head summons the body (Israel, and specifically Ephraim) and the body follows the head to conquer the enemy’s body. The body is in sin and there is no head. In fact, they’ve cast out the one who was qualified to be...The bod...
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Kata Iwannhn » Pitter on Narnia
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January 16, 2015. One of Lewis’s female friends (and yes, he did have some! She writes about one meeting with Lewis and his brother, Major “Warnie” Lewis. Pitter had asked if she “might query him about the first of his children’s books,” and Lewis consented. She reports that the conversation went like this (Ruth Pitter, “Poet to Poet,” in. In Search of C. S. Lewis. Ed Stephen Schofield, 113):. PITTER: In the land of Narnia, the witch makes it always winter and never Christmas? LEWIS: She does not. Bible ...
