Theology That Bites Back
[Speaking of behemoth] “The NIV provides us with an informative footnote which explains that this may possibly be the hippopotamus or elephant—with a tail like a cedar. Apparently the scholars who worked on the NIV were too busy with their studies as children, and never made it to the zoo, or the circus”
Forgotten Heavens, p. ix
Introduction: So regular readers with good memory skills should be able to recall that I have tangled before with a woman named Rachel Green Miller a time or two. Or three. One example of that was ...
“Rebellion is not a threat to the system, it is the system.”
Nation of Rebels, p. 175
“The Creator of all is not an impersonal force, and the creation reflects that. The biblical view of the cosmos is not the one of modernity—infinite depths of lifeless space punctuated by dead rock, or chaotic fire.”
Forgotten Heavens, p. viii
“This is why the hippies didn’t need to sell out in order to become yuppies. It’s not that the system ‘co-opted’ their dissent, it’s that they were never really dissenting.”
Nation of Rebels, p. 158
“On some issues, the theological liberal is better able to state what the teaching of the Bible is. This is because he is able to say, for example, the apostle Paul thought this way, and wasn’t it quaint? The evangelical, on the other hand, is required to believe whatever Paul taught in the Scriptures; the conservative is stuck with the results of his exegesis”
Forgotten Heavens, p. vii
“Organic food is simply the latest category of ‘premium’ consumer goods . . . Organic food is one of the major forces driving the return to an almost aristocratic class structure in the United States, in which the wealthy no longer eat the same food as the poor.”
Nation of Rebels, p. 154
“It is in Him that we live and move and have our being. God is the Lover, Jesus is the Beloved, and the Love between them is the Spirit. It is in the Triune Love that we live and move and have our being. This means that love is relevant everywhere.”
Introduction: So I posted a meme the other day, promising to follow it up with an article explaining myself, and so here I am, in fulfillment of my word. In what I write about this, please try to cast me, in your mind’s eye, as a disinterested commentator on public affairs, as an objective analyst, …
