The novelist Thomas Pynchon said, "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” Not that the question "what is the word of God?"…

Symbolism is our subject of concern, but it is easy to read history without this in mind. Any belief is a symbol of its attendant and abstract predicates, its informational…

This is an article in a series. Please see below the first part on church history, Church History: What Went Wrong? part 1 Liberal Madness, Conservative Treachery, and Jesus: part…

Sacred Symbology: Describing the Transcendent Symbol Note: This is a part of a continuing discussion of symbolism in theology. There are a number of articles in this series:

 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,…

 When I Survey the Wondrous Nace? You know that old hymn When I survey the Wondrous Cross? Its a standard. It almost represents the Church itself. It’s comfortable and peaceful,…

Continued from previous page… Symbolism, God, Man and Morality The complaint might come to mind of an inevitable blurring of all these cross-disciplinary studies related to symbolism as I suggest,…

This is an article in a series: Please see: Christ vs. the Hermeneutical Death Spiral, part 1 Theodicy? My problem is essentially a theodical one as I have alluded, and before…

This is an article in a series. Here are the others: Church History: What Went Wrong? part 1 Liberal Madness, Conservative Treachery, and Jesus: part II Liberal Madness, Conservative Treachery,…

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 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…

The Immaterial and Material Together, to Death or Life: The Phenomenology of Sacred Symbolism The physical world is made up of things and laws, and so is the immaterial mind.