Mark 12: Prophetic Streams, the Shema and Prophetic Sin My main occupation is revelation, not by my cleverness or some new way of looking at the scriptures, but by something…

The Bible Experience, not Hot Air: John 9:1-41 “The Bible Experience.” You may have heard it before. Its the title of a New Testament Audiobook. It’s an attempt to turn…

Sacrifice for Sin and the Real Messianic Secret This is an article in a series. Please see: Christ on the Cross Part 1: How can a person die in sacrifice…

The Head and Heart Antipathy? Who wins? What is the difference between faith and intellectual assent, or what we call reason? Between head and heart? Is there a difference between…

Sacred Symbology in Relation to Conservatism and Liberalism This is an article in a series. Please see: Sacred Symbology part 1: Our Hidden Problem This is not a stand-alone article. Its…

Noun Norming Transcendence? This is about Christ and Transcendence, and whether we believe those two should be together. The meaning of Christ’s parables is in our churchy exegesis for centuries…

Real Unpardonable sin. Matthew 12:23-24:  “And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow…

John 8 and the Tyranny of Language John 8:52-56  Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and…

 Prophetic Theory and the Necessity of Messianic Prophecy “Prophecy as Fact” is meant in two senses: Messianic prophecy is self-attesting, and therefore God’s method of self-attestation, used to show himself,…

Sacred Symbology: Our Comfort Here is Our Downfall Before getting to something about the interaction of the symbolic types, it is probably best to start with this thing I call…

The Meaning of the Cross If you read my previous article, When I Survey the Wondrous Nace, I demonstrated the obvious truth that the Cross is a symbol, and if…

The Sermon on the Mount of the Prophetic The assumption has always been that the Beatitudes are about being meek, kind, and merciful as a fulfillment of the essence of…