Main Project

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground the lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the…

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Gen. 2:7) And just like that, here in Genesis 2:7, God creates man. Like with so many of the biblical stories, the brevity of the sentence belies the…

Using the KJV, the story of Adam and Eve has a total of eight hundred and ten words. Contained in this incredibly short and dense story are a number of themes. In no particular order and likely not exhaustive we see the themes of the divine order, the relationship between God and humanity, free will,…

After creating the heavens and the earth from the deep which was void and without form, God sets to the task of creating the world. Between Genesis 1:3-25 there is a lot going on and most of it is quite subtle. It will bear careful consideration before we get to the creation of man.  …

Here we are. To the best of my ability I’ve attempted, in the last twenty-five posts, to create a primer for this moment. Beginning with the importance of the image of the shepherd in the ancient world to the Mesopotamian and Egyptian cosmogonies which preceded the ancient Hebrews, to how various scientific disciplines have found…

As mentioned in several posts already, the closest the modern world has to the biblical  understanding of the world comes from American Pragmatism and Phenomenology. For both the pragmatist and phenomenologist, that which is experienced is that which is real. For instance, in his seminal work and arguably the seminal work of phenomenology,  Sein und…

The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. Proverbs 9:10   This project is of enormous in scope. The span ranges from the earliest writings of the Mesopotamian Empire to the present day. The idea which gave birth to this project is that the…

Our early ancestors, after the end of the last ice age roughly 14,000 BC, had a very important question to answer viz., how are we going to survive? In a world with very little structure the primary concern was that of nature. Nature, like fire, has two sides — the benevolent and the malevolent. There…

Editors note: I struggled for some time trying to figure out how to go about this post. The material is so incredibly rich that attempting to mine the entirety of its value in a single post is just not feasible and would do overall harm to the coherence of the project. What we are going…

“The doer alone learneth” -Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra 1883   Do you like to play? That is a pretty easy question to answer. Do you know why you like to play? That is a much harder question to answer and to do so we need to enlist the help of neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp.  Back…