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Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

Inspiration & Intelligibility

Language, revelation, and its religious misuse: Contrasting the character of biblical and Vedic speech

Revelation is by virtue of the Son and carried out by the Spirit, effecting understanding and a renewed relation between God and men. In scripture, language is made to serve God in a rational and benighted soul and make him a devoted soul. God’s words are given to us by the prophets, inscribed with a pen.

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Making Place for Time

Sin wickedly ascribes an evil character to time

In the beginning, time possessed no argument with the creator or creature, but showcased the passing moments in which God revealed himself to man in his creation. If believers for the moment must still feel the pinch of time in space, that is the effect of sin and not time itself.

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Defacing the Truth, Destroying the Conscience

Terrence Malick’s film reminds us that the present becomes a horrible future after we join hands to misconsider the past

“What we do is just create sympathy. We create…we create admirers. We don’t create followers."

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Reflections (& Refractions)

Power, Privilege, & Potluck Dinners

A simple meal as the unlikely demonstration of the gospel's power

In capitals all around the world, men devise many means to encourage or impose even the most tenable of unities. Against these efforts are raised the schemes of still other clever men, attempting another new unity to replace the last. The church is to stand outside the circle of these efforts, preaching a gospel that displays a different kind of power.

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Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

The Gift of Samuel

Children, Intimacy & Divine Desire

Hedonists everywhere should be concerned; after all, lust is what it has always been. Even when it is attended by pleasure, lust remains ungratified and ungratifying. This will surprise no one, but it does seem to bother some. Otherwise, there would not be such a rush to exalt lust as love, or to confuse their rewards.

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