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God Is His Own Interpreter, And He Will Make It Plain, Barry Fike
God Is His Own Interpreter, And He Will Make It Plain, Barry Fike
Barry D. Fike
Religion, in its mystical, emotional or practical expression is, to me at any rate, of little value if divorced from intellectual integrity. I think that the reason “many believers” are so repulsive is that they don’t really have faith but a kind of false security. They operate by the slide rule, and the Church for them is not the body of Christ but the poor man’s insurance system. It’s never hard for them to believe because actually they never think about it. Unfortunately the reality is simply that it is not easy to get vast masses of men to think …
The Jewish Nature Of The First Century Church, Barry D. Fike
The Jewish Nature Of The First Century Church, Barry D. Fike
Barry D. Fike
“When men realized that the teaching of God was no heritage that one accepts passively but rather a heritage that has to be won, they began to see this relationship to the Bible as a religious obligation. It became a supreme commandment to “study”, to explore the Scriptures. To explore means to consider the Bible as a challenge rather than a gift…..The duty to “explore” requires further rethinking: each end becomes a new beginning and each solution a new problem…Once Today’s Church is fully aware of the vast importance of learning, it too will realize that it cannot afford to …
A Reinvestigation Of "The Creation Of Woman" From A Hebraic Viewpoint, Barry Fike
A Reinvestigation Of "The Creation Of Woman" From A Hebraic Viewpoint, Barry Fike
Barry D. Fike
This paper looks at the role of women in society and the church while investigating the original creation story in Hebrew without the sociological intervention and gross misinterpretation of the text by modern man so often used to show the "superiority" of men because of the "after thought" in the creation of woman. Because of the misinterpretation of ideas and words, such as submissive and helpmeet used in the Biblical text, many men claim "superiority" over women in a spiritual sense when nothing is further from the truth.
What A Wonderful Idea!, Barry D. Fike
What A Wonderful Idea!, Barry D. Fike
Barry D. Fike
A brief meditation on unity in the Christian church.
Does God Bend The Rules?, Barry D. Fike
Does God Bend The Rules?, Barry D. Fike
Barry D. Fike
A brief meditation on Jonah and Hezekiah.
Hanging On To One String, Barry Fike
Hanging On To One String, Barry Fike
Barry D. Fike
This article provides six suggestions based on the Bible's teachings for keeping positive and overcoming adversity.
Do We Speak Where The Bible Speaks?, Barry Fike
Do We Speak Where The Bible Speaks?, Barry Fike
Barry D. Fike
A meditation on the expression: "We speak where the Bible speaks, and are silent where the Bible is silent."
Mikveh: The Relationship Of Jewish Ritual Immersion And Christian Baptism, Barry Fike
Mikveh: The Relationship Of Jewish Ritual Immersion And Christian Baptism, Barry Fike
Barry D. Fike
Most Christians understand baptism as an undeniable doctrine of early Christianity. What most don’t grasp is that this practice goes far beyond the confines of Jesus and John the Baptist to some of the earliest recorded stages of the people of God, meaning that it has always been a part of the plan of God for the redemption of mankind. In this book, Barry Fike goes back into the Hebrew background of the concept of Christian baptism into the Jewish understanding of this ritual of cleanliness to show that our present understanding needs to have some backdrop to correctly identify …
Arguing With God: An Honest Conversation, Barry Fike
Arguing With God: An Honest Conversation, Barry Fike
Barry D. Fike
For the Jew, “I beg to differ” has been an enduring tactic of achieving and affirming identity. The Jew had addressed the same caveat to God—not in self-contradiction, but in dialectic aiming at attainment of fuller realization of who he is, as Jew and as human being. In asking about God, we examine our own selves: whether we are sensitive to the grandeur and supremacy of what we ask about, whether we are wholeheartedly concerned with what we ask about. Unless we are involved, we fail to sense the issue.
God Is His Own Interpreter, And He Will Make It Plain, Barry D. Fike
God Is His Own Interpreter, And He Will Make It Plain, Barry D. Fike
Barry D. Fike
Religion, in its mystical, emotional or practical expression is, to me at any rate, of little value if divorced from intellectual integrity. I think that the reason “many believers” are so repulsive is that they don’t really have faith but a kind of false security. They operate by the slide rule, and the Church for them is not the body of Christ but the poor man’s insurance system. It’s never hard for them to believe because actually they never think about it. Unfortunately the reality is simply that it is not easy to get vast masses of men to think …
In The Beginning, Was It So? Who Says?, Barry Fike
In The Beginning, Was It So? Who Says?, Barry Fike
Barry D. Fike
Subservience and women seemed to go together as ‘peas and carrots’ – at least in the conservative brotherhood that I was raised in. Yes, women had their place in the body of Christ – so long as they stayed in a classroom with children – not in their teenage years – and sat piously simple and didn’t raise a question in a class of mixed company (meaning men and women). How much more simply could Paul have said it? "Women, keep silent, if you have a question ask your husband at home." End of discussion – it’s in the Bible? …
Are We Ready To Cast The First Stone?, Barry D. Fike
Are We Ready To Cast The First Stone?, Barry D. Fike
Barry D. Fike
A short thought on the honesty of study as opposed to the closed mind that believes that all truth has been sought and found.