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These are some reflections on a particular aspect of the early part of 1 Corinthians 10, namely the need to resist temptation.
1 Corinthians 10:1ff: Resisting Temptation
Posted August 2, 2010
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“Bad Wisdom” is sung by Suzanne Vega. These lyrics leave unclear exactly what the underlying cause of shame might be, allowing them to be applied to a number of different situations. The words concern a young girl whose relationships with her friends and with her mother have been irreparably damaged because of some ill-advised sexual experience. 
Mother the doctor knows something is wrong
Cause my […]

This blog continues the series of studies looking at references to the Garden(s) of Paradise, as depicted in the Qur’an. Our last blog on this matter was on June .
The next relevant passage is from Surah 30:14-16 (Yusuf Ali):
14: On the Day that the Hour will be established,- that Day shall (all men) be sorted […]

Pointing is a very complex means of communication. Tallis illustrates why this is the case:
in order to locate the pointee, the consumer [sc. the recipient; the one being communicated to via pointing] has to assume the position of the producer [sc. the one doing the pointing]. Clearly we do this mentally, not bodily, though when pointing […]

In Chapter 5 of the Lotus Sutra we find the following interchanged between a monk and Shakyamuni (”the Lord”): 
When the Lord had thus spoken, the venerable Maha-Kasyapa said to him: Lord, if there are not three vehicles, for what reason then is the designation of disciples (Sravakas), Buddhas, and Bodhisattvas kept up in the present times?
…the Lord […]

This blog continues the series of studies looking at references to the Garden(s) of Paradise, as depicted in the Qur’an. Our last blog on this matter was on June .
The next relevant passage is from Surah 29:56-58, 64 (Yusuf Ali):
56: O My servants who believe! truly, spacious is My Earth: therefore serve ye Me - […]

In his stimulating book Michelangelo’s Finger, Raymond Tallis discusses the significance of pointing:
Pointing is a means of indicating a transcendent world - general, hidden and shared - and takes us decisively out of our solitary, transient bodies, subject to the laws of nature.
He convincingly demonstrates throughout the book that humans are utterly unique and are […]

In his book God’s Undertaker, John Lennox makes the important point that
for science to develop, thinking had to be freed from the hitherto ubiquitous Aristotelian method of deducing from fixed principles how the universe ought to be, to a methodology that allowed the universe to speak directly.
Francis Bacon is often hailed as being the father […]

In a famous 18th century romance written by Lesage, Gil Blas “finds it possible to become a skilled physician in the twinkling of an eye, when Dr. Sangrado has imparted to him the secret that the remedy for all diseases is to be found in bleeding the patient and in making him drink copiously of […]

These are some reflections on 1 Corinthians 8.
1 Corinthians 8
Posted July 13, 2010
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