The Unexpected Cosmology

What It Means to Be Created in the Image of God - ON THE SIXTH DAY OF CREATION THE LORD GOD FORMED man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. God later caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. Upon opening his eyes, he beheld a woman near his side. The […]

“Strange Doctrines…” | The Resurrection on Trial by the Raconteurs of Mars Hill & the Architects of Atomism - IT IS OFTEN ASSUMED BY THE CLERIC that Paul the Apostle agreed with Saul the Pharisee, his fleshly counterpart, on any number of extra-Biblical doctrines, particularly the immortal soul; that the road to Damascus did little to reform his erstwhile faith in the celebrated oral dogma of Hellenistic Judaism—despite an intervention by the written Prophets, […]

This Side of Gehenna | The Anatomy of a White-Washed Tomb (The Hellenistic Jew, Immortal Soul & Reincarnation) - WHILE PREGNANT WITH A SECOND CHILD, the 35 year-old Empress Poppaea Sabina was kicked to death by Nero, her third and final husband. Yet another antichrist in a succession of many reigned from Rome. Only one year earlier, on a muggy July night in 64 AD, over half of the city was leveled by fire. […]

The Gospel According to Plato | aka “the Secret Doctrine” (Globe Earth and the Immortal Soul) -   ONCE UPON A TIME THALES WAS OUT TAKING A WALK, counting the crystalline constellations without thinking so much as to observe his footing, when he stumbled headlong into a well. This in itself is not the great tragedy of the tale, as we are quickly informed it wasn’t merely the moon-lit terrain whom the […]

Dark Speeches—an Ongoing Spiritual Leprosy (and Introduction to Plato) - MOSES HAD MARRIED A BLACK WOMAN. More specifically, she was a Cushite—of Ethiopian descent. For this assault on their intellect, and his father-in-law’s constant mingling in Hebrew affairs, Aaron and Miriam succumbed to their pride and took umbrage. “Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses?” They groaned with protest. “Hath He not spoken also […]

Death Shall Be No More | The Truth About Hell, Eternal Torment, and Gehenna - ISRAEL’S HUMILIATING DEFEAT IN 722 BC was simply not enough for her captors. The king of Assyria pressed the brunt monarchic weight of his eyesight upon Judah. Within twenty years, 701 to be exact, his successor had conquered every fenced city of the southern kingdom—all but one. Sennacherib wanted Jerusalem. Hoping to appease his unquenchable […]