Thesis:the biblical-canonical concept of friendship is not incompatible with radical different-ness between the friends. [This train of thought begins here [http://andersonpost.org/2011/07/the-equal-of-his-friends/]and it part of a series I’ve been working on since last year. You can find earlier articles by searching for the…
Defence of the Defence (2 sentences) [http://papermind.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/pilgrim_aidfpp.jpg]1. Not the ‘approximate’, although it is worthy in its way. It is an attribute of God to be proximate to all and thus (a)proximate to human understanding. There are pleasant idle hours…
Thesis: the biblical-canonical concept of friendship is not incompatible with radical different-ness between the friends. Is equality between friends essential to the concept? Consider Abraham the pilgrim, the one person in the whole length and breadth of biblical history who is known by the epithet ‘friend’. But whose friend? > But…
I’ve been plugging away at a series on ‘Friendship’ for quite a while now. I apologise for the pause and for the fact that this is a rather larger chunk of thought than usual. In a previous post, The Lord of His Friends [http://andersonpost.org/2011/01/the-lord-of-his-friends/…
Jesus turns to the men sharing his table, who have shared his life and been washed by his hands, and calls them ‘friends’ [http://andersonpost.org/2011/01/you-i-call-friends/]. But what kind of friendship is it? “You are My friends if you do what I command you.” That sounds like…
Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. (John 13:1 HCSB) [http://www.flickr.com/photos/chiceaux/7981947/]As Peter gazed upon the scalp of the Christ, the head bowed over his road-grimed feet, and felt the carpenter’s fingers carve the…
> When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet and told Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died!” When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, He was angry in His spirit…
> “As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father’s house. Then Jonathan made a covenant…