Category: Above The Tule Fog
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P5: Old & New Covenants
If you have not done so already, go read my former posts as they lay the foundation for this post and posts to come. Now we know that God has/is using this exact covenant framework or model for both the old and the new covenants. For the old, the betrothal was the contract God gave…
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P4: The Covenant Framework
If you have not done so already, go read my former posts as they lay the foundation for this post and posts to come. What is the covenant framework? It’s the framework that holds the old covenant, the new covenant, the salvation covenant and the marriage covenant. God, like every other aspect, only uses one…
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P3: Foundational Framework
I recently read an article that caught my attention. A programmer was asked the question, “in this day and age, should anyone learn assembly anymore?” Assembly is the raw code that microprocessors use, with all the high level programming, is learning assembly even necessarily anymore. I discovered his background was close to mine, I cut…
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P2: The Canon
You may not know what I mean by the canon of scripture, that is something that I cannot directly reference in scripture, but, nonetheless very important. The English word canon, in this case, comes from the Greek κανών kanōn, meaning “rule” or “measuring stick”. The canon in the way I am seeing it is the…
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P1: Authority Of Scripture
First and foremost there are some basic principles of scripture that are foundational for all Christians, without these principles understood and accepted, you might as well throw everything out and be an agnostic. The thing with Scripture is you either accept it or not, there really is no middle ground. First principle, Scripture is the…
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Introduction
When I was a kid my dad bought a huge book, spent a lot of money on it, and was quite excited to have it. It was the Strong’s Concordance and Dictionary. At that time I had no idea what it was or how to use it, I was just a kid. Much later I…