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What Is He Thinking?!

From Military Times … The office will also align and issue policies on religious affairs for the secretary; represent him on all religious affairs matters in engagements with Congress, religious endorsing organizations, and external governmental departments; and realign the Armed Forces Chaplains Board and its executive director under the office’s authority for chaplain advisement. Notice that the office is intended to align & issue policies on religious affairs **for the secretary** & represent him (if **the secretary**) on all religious affairs matters in engagements with Congress. 1. The Director’s first priority is to represent GOD —-not the secretary — as to both his or her relationship & duties and in relation to Congress, particularly if the Director is a member of the ecclesiastical class.  2. As to the issuance of policies, if what MT’s description of the Director’s duties & responsibilities is accurate, then that means Pete Hegseth is the one from whom pol...

τετέλεσται!

Dan McClellan thinks he knows what τετέλεσται means in John 19 .   On the face of it, he sounds completely rational— until you realize that all he is doing is looking at the word in isolation, divorced from the rest of John, especially in relation to its narrative structure and the themes of covenant & cosmic redemption, revelation, & reconciliation.  Let’s try this…instead of reading the word in isolation, let’s read it as part of the Gospel of John in which the (Suzerain) Covenant between God & Man is up front & center along with comprehensive cosmic redemption & reconciliation with & for the whole of the created order.   John follows the general outline of a suzerain covenant .   Preamble (John 1:1 - 18) Historical Prologue (John 1:19 - 2:25) General Stipulations (John 3:1 - 12:50) Specific Stipulations (John 13:1 - 18:40) Renewal, Document Clause (John 19:1 - 19:42) Witnesses, & Victory  (John 20:1 - 21:25)     ...