Anyway, one quick thought: I've been reading through Ezekiel (yes, one of the major prophets that despite being major, nobody seems to know aside from prophetic utterances about Gog and the end of the world). So far, the first thirty chapters have nothing to do with the end of the world (sorry to disappoint people), but it's striking how often God says "I will do X, and then you will know that I am God." X ranges from "wipe you out and destroy you" to "return you to the land and make the nations around you serve you", but the formula of:
God acts in a significant way, and then a group knows that he is truly God.has me thinking about what it takes for me to evaluate my world view. What would it take for me to become, say, an open theist? Or a Calvinist? Or a Muslim?
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I've been reading Ezekiel as well. It's actually rather boring to me since it seems like the same thing repeated over and over and over... Do you get that same thing?
"Ezekiel (yes, one of the major prophets that despite being major, nobody seems to know aside from prophetic utterances about Gog and the end of the world)"
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You forgot "some vision about a wheel" (cf. African spirituals) and "something about some dehydrated calcified tissue".
I also bet that in a survey of evangelicals, you could easily pass off several of Elijah's works and prophecies as Ezekiel's.
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