Parmenides

  • 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…