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Confusion over temples produces confusion over worship
In Chapter 16 of my Generations of Heaven and Earth I spend eighteen pages contrasting the Old Testament tabernacle/temple, based on the Genesis cosmic temple of Genesis 1 and emphasising the separateness of God from his creation, with the New Testament (and New Creation) temple in which all barriers are dissolved in the body of Christ.
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Ox and ass before him bow…
Happy Boxing Day, all you labourers going from house to house for your Christmas boxes! Yes, very nice, thank you, driving over to Sussex to our daughter’s family. Missing our turning off the A30 in thick fog was a bit of a bummer, though.
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Revisiting Genesis cosmology
More seasoned readers of The Hump will remember its emphasis on “origins” before it started to document how the world has finally gone completely mad. One recurring theme was to refute the claim that the Bible, and Genesis 1 in particular, teaches an erroneous “Middle East obsolete science cosmology.” The matter broadly boils down to the proper consideration of genre.
Public noninformation inquiry…
…at the expense of a disposable murder victim Since 2022 I’ve been on a journey – or less dramatically, exploring another byway – about the case of the 2018 poisoning of the Skripals, which you can look up if you don’t remember. From searching the blog, I see I’ve hinted at it rather than explaining it extensively. But perhaps my best summary is here, where I compare it to the equally dubious story about the poisoning and subsequent death this year of Alexei Navalny, an unsavory man set up by the West to simulate a serious “democratic” (in its current, weasel-word, sense) rival to Vladimir Putin.
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Clearing my mind on COVID
I’ve been ploughing through an astonishing tour-de-force review of the literature, both academic and popular, on COVID-19 by the economist Martin Sewell, available here from Researchgate.
Posted in History, Medicine, Politics and sociology, Science, Theology
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Seeing through democratic smoke
A former medical colleague was urging me recently to lobby my MP to vote against the Assisted Dying Bill. I’ve done my share of ethical lobbying in the past, even on the same subject, contributing to a series of parliamentary consultations as well as twisting the arm of my representative in the Commons. But I think my friend, like so many well-meaning people, has insufficiently realised how Parliament has, especially since the Blair government, changed from being the place where the common people’s views are represented, to the place where they are kept under control by the illusion of representation.
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Legacy
Last week I drove 200 miles to the Essex town where I practised as a doctor for thirty years, my first return visit since I retired in 2008. The reason was the funeral of my then junior partner, who sadly died recently.
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Well, whadda you know?
Dr John Campbell, one of the more popular documenters of the COVID nonsense since 2020, has done a video on the Shroud of Turin. I’ve mentioned him in the past mainly as a classic example of the phenomenon of helpful explainers of the official COVID narrative gradually coming round to seeing its unscientific awfulness, to the point of seeing it, as many of us do, as a symptom of a totalitarian power grab in the world.
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Who should run the world?
An article by Obaid Omer, whom I assume to be a “moderate Muslim,” writes rather bravely in Quillette that the problem we face with Islamic extremism is not “Islamism” but Islam itself.
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Moth, rust, and corruption
In my day gap years after school were not the norm they are now, but I did one anyway, and spent several months of it working as a Scientific Assistant at the Ministry of Agriculture’s Pest Control Laboratory at Worplesdon. I earned around a tenner a week, which was enough to buy lunches of toasted ham sandwiches and halves of Double Diamond at the Ship across the road, to pay my Mum 30 bob rent, to buy a second-hand guitar I still use, and finally to spend a princely five pounds on a ticket for the Isle of Wight Festival, which to this day Lefties say was a capitalist rip-off … Continue reading
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