JUST LIKE A MAN
This is from my blog, Board Housewife & The Cat
“And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.” Ge 1:31
“And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.” Ge 2:16
God put man in the garden when he gave him dominion over the very good world he had made. “But,” touts this month’s cover of Smithsonian, “the real action is beyond our solar system.”
University of California-Berkeley astronomer Geoff Marcy evidently is unimpressed with God’s creation that took him seven days, at the end of which he set an example of rest. “I just don’t see how making an Earth could be hard,” posits Dr.…
Read MoreThomas Hobbes, R. L. Dabney, and the Sensualist Cat
I posted this to my blog, Board Housewife & The Cat this morning.
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. Pr 3:5
As I begin to read about the history of ideas, two things happen: First, the more I am called to repent my condonation of bad philosophy by reason of willful ignorance; and, second, the more I learn about the way the Cat thinks.
I am reading The Sensualistic Philosophy by Robert L. Dabney, a 19th-century conservative Southern Presbyterian theologian and philosopher, in an attempt to fill the philosophy gap I left open in my education. I avoided philosophy as much as I could in college, taking only a survey course.
After a two-decade gap, I began law school and was made to choke down something called “logical positivism” in a jurisprudence course.…
Read MoreResponding to a concern that I misrepresented Greg Welty
I have been very busy as of late and was deployed to Korea for an exercise. While there, a reader who is a friend of Greg Welty had concerns with my post A Critique of Greg Welty's Use of Galations in "From Circumcision to Baptism". Here is the concern raised:
…Read MoreGreg had said in his paper:
"What was the heresy of the Judaizers in the book of Galatians?
Fundamentally, their error was to contend that the command to circumcise was essential to the perpetuity of the Abrahamic Covenant and its promises and blessings. Thus, according to them, Gentile converts were required to be circumcised in order to be members of the family of God."
On Greg's view, central to the "promises and blessings" of the Abraham Covenant is *justification itself*.
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