2. Pagan concept of history Eternal Goal Creation Biblical concept of history

3. metaphysics epistemology ethics politics Logical Sequence Pressure of Life

4. Human speculation [ virtual ] infallibility without accessibility  God is distant, fear, evil overwhelms Verbal Revelation Infallibility & accessibility  God is near, joy, confidence against evil gods…man…nature STATE Sovereignty [ virtual ] Omnipotence Creator / creature Sovereignty Choice Omnipotence Energy Idolatrous metaphysic & epistemology as basis for the nation Biblical metaphysic & epistemology as basis for the nation

5. Rebellion against God  Sense of Guilt + Vulnerability to Satanic Deceptions Suppression of Truth + Satanic Deceptions  Perversion of sense of dominion Perverted dominion  “re-engineering” reality beginning with God-sense = idolatry Idolatry + impotent flesh  immorality, social destruction

6. Rain, Fertility: needs of an agrarian economy Baal -- idol of Nature’s Climate Cycle Cultic prostitution – to trigger fertility “ blessings” of rain, fertility of grain and herds $$$

9. Human speculation [ virtual ] infallibility without accessibility  God is distant, fear, evil overwhelms Verbal Revelation Infallibility & accessibility  God is near, joy, confidence against evil gods…man…nature STATE Sovereignty [ virtual ] Omnipotence Creator / creature Sovereignty Choice Omnipotence Energy Idolatrous metaphysic & epistemology as basis for the nation Biblical metaphysic & epistemology as basis for the nation

10. “ There is no such thing as revealed truth. There are truths of revelation, that is to say, propositions which express the results of correct thinking concerning revelation; but they are not themselves directly revealed.” – Liberal theologian William Temple