“The Bible is literature: It is divinely-inspired and inerrant literature, but it is literature all the same. This means that we must read it as literature. Some parts are meant to be literally understood, and they are written accordingly – as history, or theological propositions, or whatever. But one would not expect to read the … More Bible Literacy: Literaturists and Literalists
For twenty years, I have largely remained silent about certain popularly accepted, and almost never questioned cosmogenetic presuppositions of fundamentalist believers, wishing to steer clear of controversy. However, if one’s vision of the past is impaired, so likely will their depth understanding of the present and their ability to accurately project into the future. For … More Chronfoundment
The Vox populi and Vox Dei are not always aligned. The democratic ideal of an Aaronic leadership responsive to popular demand often causes God’s anointed to break the Tablets of Covenantal Law in pieces in enraged protestation. But at times, it is exactly the other way around. So, discerning the Vox Dei demands discernment of … More Vox Dei
Instinctually, all mankind (not just Quantum Physicists) desire to penetrate the sheer curtain of matter to peer deeply into the organizing field of consciousness the Hebrews called BEING, personified always in the first person (the one seeing, hearing and speaking) and grounded in the present tense – I AM, and so as never to be … More THUNDER
“The dispensationalists (Evangelicals and Charismatics) … cling to an obviously schizophrenic theology: an eschatology that preaches the failure of the Holy Spirit in social transformation, and a soteriology (doctrine of salvation) that preaches the comprehensive personal transformation that the Holy Spirit produces.” Gary North The Dominion Covenant North believed this implicit theological schizophrenia would eventually … More We’ve only just begun
P. Chin in his letter to the Observer titled “What have they done for us lately if ever” opined on the conferees for national honour awards this year, particularly awarding the OM to Don Harris and the CD to Rev Al Miller. I confess that when I saw Don Harris atop the 2021 Awards list … More Honour to whom honour is due
When last have you heard the latter part of John 20:23 expounded from a pulpit? and “whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.” Jesus, according to the Johannine record, breathed on His disciples and said ‘Receive the Holy Ghost.’ Then he authorized them to remit (forgive) or retain (hold accountable) sins on earth on God’s behalf. It … More Despicable Theology
Dr. Garnet Roper in our initial Emancipation Day Conversation revealed the hidden transcript in the very popular Jamaican folksong “Dis Long Time Gyal mi neva see yu”, penned by the Hon. Louise Bennett, satirizing the British Queen in 1966, then visiting her claimed colony (Jamaica) for the first time since her coronation in’53. Louise’s feigned affection … More Di gyal Queenie
Most of what I want to communicate through my blogs is contained in the hyperlink references highlighted in red, which, thanks to WordPress analytics, I am informed hardly ever gets noticed, which should have frustrated my persistence a long time ago, being assured that hardly anyone is paying attention. What fuels however my effort is … More The Gospel of Jesus in Black and White
The most insidious tool in the hands of the mental slave-master is not control or ownership of public media, but knowledge of human behavioral science, without which the tedium of controlling the narrative output of information streams would be a hit or miss probability. The key is to pre-program the mind to accept or refuse … More Mental Slave-masters
