Negative Space: Bible
- How un-Christian is the prosperity gospel?
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While I find the prosperity gospel of people like Joel Osteen weird, and am vaguely uncomfortable with it, it does contain an important teaching about God that we often forget: God answers prayers.
- I Kings 13
- God tells you not to listen to people who say that they know better than you what God has said. Never believe what someone else tells you is the word of God.
- Satire in the vineyard: The parable of Lolita and the sheep
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Opposite stories in the New Testament are a lot like modern satire. When Nabokov tells the parable of Humbert Humbert, he is telling us that everything in the news is false. When Jesus tells the parable of the lamb, he is telling us that everything the world values is false.
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- Matthew 8
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Matthew, chapter 8: the cleansing of a leper, the healing of a centurion’s servant, the cure of Peter’s mother-in-law, the calming of the storm, and the healing of the Gadarene demoniacs.
