The Politics of God

I will meditate on Your precepts and [f]regard Your ways.  Psalm 119:15  NASB Precepts – This Hebrew word is a derivative of the root pāqad.  That means we may have some difficulties understanding what this means.  “It has been said of this verb, which occurs more than three hundred times in the ot; ‘There is probably no other…

Pauline Gnosticism

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.  Ephesians 6:12  NASB Rulers – Spiritual warfare.  That’s how most people interpret Paul’s enigmatic statement.  Our fight is with the Devil and all his minions in this world and in heaven. …