Dr. Currid is now talking about Job.  As part of talking about suffering, he cited John 9:2-5: 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents...

Dr. Currid is now transitioning from the Historical Books to the Poetical Books. He began with an attempt to define poetry. Which gives me an excuse to discuss my own theory of poetry. Definition: A linguistic piece is poetic when its words are...

A quick note. Yesterday I overheard some people talking about Augustine’s view of the Days of Creation. They said Augustine had proved the Days couldn’t be literal days, because there is light on Day 1, but no Sun till Day whatever. This completely...

I’m listening now to Dr. John D. Currid’s lectures on “Judges through Poets” from RTS. To set the background for Judges, he’s discussing Joshua, and the Israelite invasion of the Promised Land. This, naturally, leads to the problem of what appears to...

[Click here for Part One] If belief about (i.e., orthodoxy) is preparation for belief in (i.e., orthopraxy), while belief in is the culmination of belief about, then we have to understand each in terms of the other. So, in light of belief in, what...