Continuity of being

concept · 13 episodes

180The Tower 12 Feb 2024 4:12¶ 17 “Heaven and earth meet in this one person where there is a mixture of the human and divine. This may be something to save…” 39:19¶ 123 “I don’t know that the author of that section is a Christian, but he does get one thing right. He basically says that one…” 4:53¶ 18 “The goal is to climb and bypass the bottleneck and experience the fullness of divine presence, essence, and certainly power. And whether you’re Pharaoh…”

174In the Beginning... Again 4 Jan 2024 18:56¶ 60 “Back to something that I talk about a lot, borrowing from Dr. Van Til and Dr. Rushdoony, the idea of continuity of being. For…” 19:13¶ 61 “I’m going to use universe, just because I’m tired of trying to find a different word or reality. There is no reality outside of…” 25:10¶ 85 “Anyway, we’re way off here. The point is if all is one then there are no standards outside the universe by which to judge.…”

158Daniel in the Lion's Den - A Resurrection Story 6 Mar 2023 18:39¶ 71 “This would seem strange to us if somebody said, “Congress is making a law that all prayers and other formal requests of any sort…” 19:10¶ 72 “Divinity is spread in all of reality, but it’s clumped together in some places and things and objects more than others. Some objects have…” 20:09¶ 76 “That would be interesting. With the original series came out, a lot of young Christians said, “Oh, this is so good! They have Jesus.”…”

157The Handwriting on the Wall 20 Feb 2023 29:20¶ 130 “That’s not the same thing. God doesn’t want us too concerned. He tells us up front and then he shows it happening. So the…” 33:02¶ 137 “There’s an amazing contrast there. You mentioned the continuity of being and how God stands in contrast to that, where God is not made…”

148Through Fiery Trials 12 Dec 2022 4:59¶ 19 “Within the context of that culture, if God manifests himself in some person or thing, then God is identified with that person or thing…” 6:20¶ 23 “In that culture you did so by bowing down to images and maybe offering sacrifices or incense to them, but you start with prostrating…” 25:40¶ 93 “Dr. Rudolph from Episcopal Seminary had a saying. “He is not it and it is not he.” He’d draw a big circle. “This is…”

146To Gain the Whole World 28 Nov 2022 26:58¶ 82 “Continuity of being means “As below, so above. We have the magic powers here to move the universe, and the magic things that we…” 24:29¶ 76 “So they know now, “This is the path. This is what we’re to do. We’re to maintain our testimony, our witness for Yahweh in…” 26:15¶ 81 “These seem to be four of the smartest guys you’re ever going to meet anywhere, because their answers not only make sense, but they…”

138Freedom, Miracles, and History 3 Oct 2022 46:00¶ 162 “This whole section that we’ve been passing through as we go through Isaiah, we’re seeing as the backdrop Assyria and then later Babylon. These…”

102The King as Priest 24 Jan 2022 59:35¶ 194 “The first creed of the church was Jesus est dominus, Jesus is Lord, and that’s where they would not compromise because the gospel says…” 57:51¶ 189 “Often this is where in our age particularly, but in every age I guess, the discussion actually begins with the incarnation, because in the…” 58:13¶ 190 “The king was God. The emperor was God. The emperor was the son of God. And once you knew that, you knew, “Well, he’s…”

38Image and Word (part 2) 20 Sep 2020 23:45¶ 91 “The other worldview, the pagan worldview, that of continuity of being says that we scratch and claw to get to God, to obtain divinity,…” 24:00¶ 92 “But in Christianity, the gospel says that God came down to us, and he came down as one seeking us with words. He calls…” 24:39¶ 93 “So whereas pagan religion emphasizes getting at God through things, and emphasizes varyingly man’s volition, his emotions, or his intellect, depending on who you’re…”

35Polytheism and Pluralism (part 1) 30 Aug 2020 13:28¶ 45 “So as I said earlier, we have these two possibilities. We have continuity of being philosophy – the phrase we used at the beginning…” 7:46¶ 25 “In school, the teachers are looking at How Should We Then Live, and one of the quotes we ran across very quickly is when…” 8:14¶ 26 “Man is part of that absoluteness; therefore, he is potentially or actually god. And the forces that make up the universe – you can…”

28Prince of Egypt (part 2): Of Miracles and Magic 12 Jul 2020 1:17¶ 4 “We’ve talked before about the only other worldview there is besides that presented in scripture – the worldview of the pagan world, which is…” 1:53¶ 5 “The word ‘tricks’ here is confusing because they’re not tricks, they’re rituals. The rituals, the incantations, the proper turning of the wheel on the…” 2:29¶ 7 “The shape of the stars, the spots on a bird’s liver, the sticks you throw down, I Ching sticks – because everything’s related, everything’s…”

15The Babylon Project 12 Apr 2020 11:13¶ 40 “That brings us back to your point from earlier, which is the continuity of being, that there isn’t a Creator/creature distinction, that man is…” 10:20¶ 38 “For instance, the ziggurats of Mesopotamia had names like “The temple of the mountain of the universe,” “The temple of the mountain,” “The temple…” 7:10¶ 28 “It’s at this point then that we should probably go back and think about the pagan doctrine of continuity of being.”

2In The Beginning 12 Jan 2020 12:50¶ 47 “Because this is California. Anyway, continuity of being. Here’s the thing. If all of reality is of apiece, there are a couple things we…” 13:13¶ 49 “Some animals are more equal than others, and some humans are more equal to the animals than the others. Then you begin climbing up…” 13:54¶ 50 “And depending up on the religion or worldview, you may be stuck where you are, just being sort of divine, but more often than…”