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Naming the Powers
Do you want your thinking about angels and demons to be blown out of the water? Read “The Powers Trilogy” by Walter Wink. And then read them again. If Wink is right, then pretty much everything we...
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Unmasking the Powers
Have you ever read a book that blew your mind? “The Powers” Trilogy by Walter Wink are three of the most challenging books I’ve read in a while. I’m not saying I agree with everything in them, but the...
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Why Nature is Destructive
The second principle of the chaos theory is that while God originally created a beautiful and orderly universe that functioned in beautiful symmetry, once free agents used their freedom to rebel...
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Satan seeks only to Destroy
Another explanation for why bad things happen in this world is that Satan is seeking to destroy the things of God. Satan is Legalistic Satan knows that it is we whom God loves, that it is we whom God...
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Can a Christian Be Demon-Possessed?
A reader recently sent in the following question: Can a Christian be demon-possessed? And do Christians have the authority to say someone is demon-possessed? The Bible says to discern the spirits, but...
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Signs of Demonic Possession
In a previous post we considered the question, “Can a Christian be demon-possessed?” We said no. But if a non-Christian is demon possessed, what the the signs of demonic possession, and is a Christian...
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The Waters of the Flood and ANE Cosmology
In seeking to understand what is going on in the account of the flood and why the waters that came upon the earth, we must understand the Ancient Near East cosmology. That is, what they thought about...
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Is God a murderer?
This post continues to (re)summarize my proposal about how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament. However, I have two quick questions for you … Now that I have returned to this series...
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Satan Casts Out Satan
One of the great lies of Satan is in how he uses human institutions such as religion and politics to make it look like God uses violence to defeat violence. This is the great myth of redemptive...
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In Killing Jesus, Satan Cast out Satan
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this 3-Part series on how Satan casts out Satan, we learned that Satan uses violent religion to attack and kill the messengers of God, and thus, appear to be “casting out Satan”...
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