05 – The Conceptual God and the flow of history.

Chapter 5 of  The Conceptual God – Presenting a Robust Case for Divine Conceptualism and Structural Realism. In understanding the Conceptual God and the flow of history, it must be first and foremost understood that conscious parsers of the wave-function are not themselves part of the wave-function. If they were, then there is no meaningful … Read more

02 – Faith and the Wave-function

Chapter 2 of  The Conceptual God – Presenting a Robust Case for Divine Conceptualism and Structural Realism.   In chapter 1 I wrote about how Hebrews 11:3 is an account of how God used rhema words to create a space-time out of information that could be parsed quantum mechanically.  Hebrews 11:3 was written to provide … Read more

04 – Creation and the Conceptual God

Chapter 4 of  The Conceptual God – Presenting a Robust Case for Divine Conceptualism and Structural Realism.   This is the second booklet in the Conceptual God series. It is assumed that the reader has read The Truth of the Conceptual God. This installment assumes the truth of Divine Conceptualism, which was demonstrated in the … Read more

01 – The Truth of the Conceptual God

Chapter 1 of  The Conceptual God – Presenting a Robust Case for Divine Conceptualism and Structural Realism.   For over two thousand years, philosophers have been debating what is called the problem of universals. to understand this problem We must consider how we classify commonalities. When we speak of apples or oranges, we intuitively think … Read more

A quick history of the General Baptists

This paper is based on information from General Baptist History by D. B Montgomery and Ch 2 of Meet the General Baptists by Edwin Runyon. Runyon, in discussing General Atonement, confines his historical analysis mostly  to the development of the General Baptists in America after 1800. Montgomery begins with its precursors in England under John … Read more

02 – The Framework of Systematic Theology

Chapter 2 of  The Olive Tree – Towards a Messianic Christian Systematic Theology.   Messianic Theology has as its core principle the doctrine of the Messiah. The OT Saints looked forward to the Messiah. New Testament believers looked both forward and backward, looking backward to the Cross and  forward to the Second Coming. The Messiah … Read more

11 – Putting the One New Man Together

Chapter 11 of  The Olive Tree – Towards a Messianic Christian Systematic Theology.   The New Covenant provides for Christ to forge one new man point of the two group of the people of God: Gentile believers in the Messiah and Jewish descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who were part of the Mosaic Covenant. … Read more

Appendix B – Irenaeus’ Defense of Sola Scriptura and his Gnostic Argument Against Gnosticism

Appendix B of  The Olive Tree – Towards a Messianic Christian Systematic Theology.   Irenaeus wrote a five book anthology collectively named Against Heretics. The first two books are filled entirely and exclusively with appeals to and expositions of Scripture to counter false teachings that had infiltrated the Church. Up to the beginning of the … Read more