The Measuring Stick

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.  1 John 4:18  NASB Perfect love – We have a serious problem with perfect.  Since Parmenides, our idea of perfect has been a negative concept, that is, freedom from any defect…

Good Enough Most of the Time

And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James 1:4 ESV Perfect – Perhaps the most insidious mistranslation of a Torah concept is the idea of perfection.  Theology is filled with this thoroughly Greek idea.  So is rabbinic Judaism.  Thanks to the disease of Hellenism, the Parmenidean…

Aristotle’s Influence

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  Genesis 1:1  NASB In the beginning – We just can’t get away from the opening verse, can we?  Genesis 1:1 stands as a clarion call for everything that’s different about the Hebrew worldview.  Not only does it soundly deny all of the opening ideas of…