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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

05 – The Son of Abraham

Chapter 5 of  The Olive Tree – Towards a Messianic Christian Systematic Theology.   The Messiah is the Son of Abraham. This was the provision in the Abrahamic Covenant. The Abrahamic Covenant is actually a set of three covenants, as the Covenant with Abraham was confirmed with Isaac and then Jacob. This trinity of covenants … Read more

04 – The Ark of Baptism

Chapter 4 of  The Olive Tree – Towards a Messianic Christian Systematic Theology.   The Messiah is the Ark of Baptism. This was a fulfillment in the Noahic Covenant. Peter, in his first epistle, instructs us that Noah’s Ark has an allegorical anti-type in Christ. Just as eight people entered into the Ark and was … Read more

03 – The Seed of the Woman

Chapter 3 of  The Olive Tree – Towards a Messianic Christian Systematic Theology.   The Messiah is the Seed of the Woman. This was the provision in the Adamic Covenant. While the Adamic Covenant is not stated explicitly, it has features of a Suzerainty Covenant. A Suzerainty Covenant is an agreement between a sovereign and … Read more