The Attack on Biblical Anthropology. Part 3.
Reading Time: 9 minutes Here’s a bold statement summarising Transhumanism:
“In the twenty-first century, the third big project of humankind will be to acquire for us divine
powers of creation and destruction, and upgrade Homo Sapiens to Homo deus … We want the
ability to re-engineer our bodies and minds in order, above all, to escape old age, death, misery,
but once we have it, who knows what else we might do with such ability? So we may well think
of the new human agenda as consisting really of one project (with many branches) attaining
divinity”.
Yuval Noah Harari,
The Attack on Biblical Anthropology. Part 2.
Reading Time: 7 minutes The Early Church understood, the person as the resultant of body and soul, as an integral unit and not of that of two entities. In other terms, a human being is seen as one entity, composed of two distinct irreducible constituents where immortality of the soul was an alien concept to most
The Attack on Biblical Anthropology. Part 1
Reading Time: 8 minutes Humans have an inescapable problem of understanding what defines them, because the nature of the definition is both paradoxical and complicated.
Communication Theory and the Ancient World. Part 1.
Reading Time: 4 minutes The word “rhetoric” (ῥητορική), is a victim of “Semantic Drift” that has seen its classical meaning changed from its original Greek meaning: skill in speaking articulated as the art of persuasion, into propaganda or empty talk.
“wokeness” Part 2: – The Cult.
Reading Time: 8 minutes “Cults are systems of social control. They are …….organizations whose aims (be they money, power, sex or something else) are rooted in submission to a dogma manifested by an authority figure: a charismatic preacher or, say, a tenured professor.” (Marzoni 2018)
“wokeness” Part 1: – Neo Tribalism.
Reading Time: 8 minutes Christianity, by its complacency and lack of courage, on the one part and not being able to predict what it’s enemies would do next, on the other, allowed the open ground for the “New Left” to come in with its Cultural Marxism, who understood that values are pivotal to all politics and human life. “[I]nterests are not given but have to be politically and ideologically constructed”. Stuart Hall
“Logos” or “Not Logos”. That is the question.
Reading Time: 5 minutes The word λόγος, (logos, word Strongs NT 3056, one of the most widely used terms in the NT; 331 occurrences) has a huge semantic domain. In John’s Gospel Logos is a clear reference to Jesus. In the opening chapter and verse (John 1:1) the Apostle introduces the idea that Jesus is the Word.
I Can’t Get Away from Myself.
Reading Time: 3 minutes My biggest enemy is not you, it’s me. I am my biggest enemy, hey man, I can’t get away from myself. I go to bed with myself every night. Every time I sit down to eat I’m right there. When I shave my face I’m looking at me right through the mirror. There’s nowhere I can go to get away from me. I’m on me 24/7.