Musings of a Snickerdoodle

In this book, MacArthur attacks the 'Strange fire'/worship practice of   pneumacentrism/Holy Spirit centrism(Major focus upon the Holy Spirit)particularly in the Charismatic movement, and does a good job too.   He starts by reminding us to 'test the spirits' and then moves on to how the modern charismatic movement got started and how they misinterpret Scripture.   We look at the Scriptures to see what the work of the Holy Spirit actually looks like and what 'Spirit-filled' really means.   Speaking in tongues is addressed, of course, and we are given the history of how and why the Charismatics switched from viewing the word 'tongue' as being a human language to its being an unintelligible spirit babble.   They apparently tried out their 'tongues' on people in other countries, and it proved that their supposed 'languages' were not languages at all but merely gibberish.   They wanted to keep this babble and so reinterpreted the Script...

Joseph: And the Gospel of Many Colors is not a full fledged commentary on the account of Joseph, nor was it meant to be.   It is more of an overview of the life of Joseph using a Christo-centric perspective.   I wanted to read this book partly because I thought that perhaps I was misunderstanding what people mean by "Christo-centric" as a hermeneutic.   Some of Baucham's explanations, such as the following, encouraged me in that regard:   " This does not mean that we find Jesus in every verse.   Another objection to the redemptive-historical approach to the Old Testament narrative is that it inevitably leads to allegorizing the text. Suddenly, every part of the story refers to an aspect of Christ.   The pit can't just be a pit; it has to be a type of grave.   The prison can't just be a prison; it has to be a type of hell.   And, of course, coming out of prison and going before Pharaoh must be a type of resurrection.   The possibilities ar...

http://www.nlpg.com/the-new-answers-book-4 The interpretation of the Bible's account of Creation through the lens of science seems to be a popular thing amongst professing Christians nowadays.  T his is a very discouraging state of things, that Christians trust human observations before the Bible's declarations.   That is one reason why this book is so refreshing as the authors hold to God's Word as the starting point and as the 'lens' with which to interpret their scientific observations.      The interpretation of the Bible's account of Creation through the lens of science seems to be a popular thing amongst professing Christians nowadays. The New Answers book 4 by Ken Ham(editor ) and many others, is full of chapters dealing with questions in regards to 'issues' that may come up in discussions about Creation, and is also great for simply perusing possible answers as to how certain things about Creation week might be explained.   It...