Midrash - A new page
A new page called Midrash, which may be a new term for some of you, but I bet when you have been reading the bible you have been understanding the bible in a midrashic way at times anyway. So, here is an explanation of Midrash which is a Jewish understanding of typology and how they applied it to understand the times in which they lived.
Paul used midrash as did Jesus. The puritans and the Plymouth brethren tried to bring this way of understanding back into a gentile greek minded church. Midrash as Moriel states [...] is a way of understanding scripture that stresses the need to rediscover the scriptures as Hebraic literature (as opposed to Hellenistic literature), demanding the hermeneutic models of Second Temple Period Judaism as a basis in biblical interpretation. Essentially this means an attempt to rediscover the methods of interpretation used by the New Testament writers. We note the Sitz in Leben of Biblical Jewish culture along the lines of various scholars, but in order to see the greater depth of contained meaning we adopt an understanding of early midrashic models in addition to conventional grammatical-historical models of interpretation.[...]
To learn more see the page that I have created, which may be added to at a later date.
To listen to Yakov/Jacob on radio talk about midrash, Laodicea which means peoples opinion and other hot topics go to Moriel streaming Radio
The ‘Yes Pot’ - Everything is Nothing
It looks like the pendulum swing is swinging back for some people. Carla has found a site about post-emergents.
When I went over and read Carla’s blog and her latest post called ‘Posts and Things’ it reminded me of a post I did some time back about what post-modernism will do to the church. I have decided to bring my comment from Carla’s very informative blog over to my blog as it was rather lengthy, and at the end of this post I will have the my related posts… so, here is my rather lengthy comment:
In fact what post-modernsism does is deconstruct everything it attempts to deal with. I see post-modernism not lasting long at all.
But the problem post-modernism has is what model do you use to reconstruct something that you have pulled apart? Now, with the emergent’s there are some who have seen the light and have found that post-modernism within the emergent conversation was literally so fluid so that they became unfulfilled and discontented because they found themselves talking in circles with nothing of substance really being said. Can’t chew on fluid really can you!
Those with a teachable heart and spirit who are really looking for God and long for Him and who recognise that they long for His Truth - will go on to try and find Truth and if Truth can exist at all … and prayfully they will find Christ in a biblical way. For those people they come to realize that only the lack of Truth exists within the post-modern emergent circles and it becomes clear to them that the Truth cannot be found within post-modernism. So there is a break away. Praise God for that!
Now, for those who love not the truth (and we know there are those people, Paul says that 2 Th 2:10), but love instead mans flowery words will want to reconstruct the very thing they have deconstructed and pulled apart. In reconstructing they will find that they will have to become even more fluid and more inclusive than ever before because they are not willing to become authoritative, authentic or discriminative - as truth divides from error by its very nature. They will find and proclaim that truth is not in the answer but in the question - Why? (hahahah why? Now if I was a post-modern I would give myself a pat on the back for finding the answer in the word Why?) - Why? - Because answers presume a positive or a negative, which is of course discriminatory. Their questions can never be answered in any absolute way and to get around this conundrum they will say that they don’t need to be as long as you are on the quest to find the answer, that quest is 100% good and 100% right for each individual. The question therefore becomes the answer!
Is your head spinning yet!
