Divine Origin of Language in the Tapestry of Creation
Reading Time: 18 minutes God, as the ultimate Creator, initiated the act of creation through divine speech, while in contrast, humankind, exemplified by Adam, engages in the expression of human comprehension, employing the tools of language and communication to articulate their role within the divine framework of that creation. The Gen. 2:19 narrative serves as a profound illustration of humanity’s responsibility to interpret and responsibly care for the world brought into existence by the divine utterance of God, thus emphasizing the intimate connection between language, interpretation, and humanity’s role as stewards of creation.
Gnosticism
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Edenic serpent, has co-opted and redefined the term “Gnosis,” associating it with the fabricated concept of “Gnosticism”, a notion that can be fundamentally traced back to the narrative found in Genesis 3:1-9. In essence, this term falsly distorts the narative of the fall of mankind, into a false liberation myth, derived from the fictional oppression maintained by the withholding or mystification of knowledge, by an allegedly evil being.
Evaluating the Apostasy. Part 2.
Reading Time: 15 minutes Cancel culture is probably the best and simplest place to start. This social phenomenon signifies the convergence of individuals who coalesce and function as “swarm bots” mobilising collectively to counteract perceived threats to their deeply ingrained “cultural” values.
Bad Apologetics. Part 2.
Reading Time: 9 minutes When one reads Baruch de Spinoza’s words, in his Tractatus Theologico-Philosophicus: “We see, I say, that the chief concern of theologians on the whole has been to extort from Holy Scripture their own arbitrarily invented ideas, for which they claim divine authority.” The perspectives through which Scripture itself (the source of Christian information and Christian revelation) is read, determines one’s scriptural interpretation, hence consequently, one’s theology and apologetic and determines whether one has “rightly handl[ed] the word of truth”(2 Tim 2:15). .
The Attack on Biblical Anthropology. Part 4.
Reading Time: 11 minutes The insights of 20th Century biology, specifically those that describe humans as just, cumbersome containers for swarming gene replicators and vehicles for meme replicators, is an anthropological definition that is inadequate.
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.