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Speech & Language

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    • Judges
    • Judges 6:1-32

The Character of a Prophet’s Speech as Divine Testimony

The unnamed prophet of Joshua 6 recalls the words of Joshua, revealing a need for Israel’s savior
  • rah
  • November 15, 2024
In both cases, the word fear is used in connection to Israel’s disposition: Israel was to fear the LORD and not fear the gods of the Amorites.
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  • Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

The Stump Speech Becomes Secularism’s Sermon

Flattery, politics, & the search for power
  • rah
  • October 13, 2022
And yet, there is cause to think that this unbelief has become the very ground of a new positive consensus. It entails the unavoidably moral and religious inclinations that have always belonged to man, but attaches to them the kind of political and sociological expressions that Bottum describes in his book.
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Syrian Religion in Ancient China

Syncretism & religious aspiration
  • rah
  • October 12, 2022
The human mind is such that it needs and seeks forms for its heartfelt expressions; even so, the human heart is such that it will too easily justify false forms for their purported service to truth.
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Inspiration & Intelligibility

Language, revelation, and its religious misuse: Contrasting the character of biblical and Vedic speech
  • rah
  • May 16, 2022
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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    • Genesis
    • Genesis 18

Word & Deed on the Plane of Time

A field in Canaan confirms the character of God & man
  • rah
  • February 1, 2022
The chapter begins with the silence of God, but that yields to the kind of creative speech that can only belong to God: He will return to Sarah the time of life. But the elderly couple? They must learn to say less—or perhaps speak differently, and that in agreement to what God has spoken.
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