Ecclesiastes 3:16-22 Man and Beast Both Die in the End
16 Furthermore, I have seen under the sun that in the place of justice there is wickedness and in the place of righteousness there is wickedness. In the last section, we were told that God does what He desires, nothing interferes with God’s purposes. This construct brings up an ancient question, why does God allow wickedness? Why […]
Ecclesiastes 2:18-23 Life Ends in Painfulness, Grief, and Emptiness
18 Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me. 19a And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the fruit of my […]
Reflections on Jonah: God’s Mercy
I recently went though the book of Jonah to see what God might have to say. I have started by simply drawing the story down to an outline of text. God, יְהוָ֔ה – Yhvh, begins the story by speaking to His servant, Jonah, telling him to goto Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. Jonah flees in […]
Mercy Triumphs Over Judgment – κατακαυχᾶται ἔλεος κρίσεως
At this point, I think true justice is actually judgement based on mercy and its application, especially to the sick soul.
The Kingdom of Heaven – ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν (is like)
οὐρανός, οῦ, ὁ (n) ouranos, heaven, dwelling of gods and spirits, independent of earth, vault as sky, universe
βασιλεία, ας, ἡ (n) basileia, kingdom, royal rule, sovereignty
Nygren’s Agape and Eros: A Transvaluation of Love
In Greco-Hellenism the gods do not love man. In Christianity, not only is God Agape but Agape is His very nature. In Greco-Roman world the gods do not take part in a fellowship with man, Christianity places fellowship in the middle of the Agape motif. Finally, Christianity is theocentric while Greek thought is egocentric.