The romantic and almost mythic lineage of sacred metallurgy that connects Cain’s progeny to the very origins of human craft and civilization represents one of

My core argument rests on a teleological historical-linguistic theme: from Yeshua’s death and resurrection dated by most scholars to spring AD 30 (e.g., Nisan 14, Passover; see consensus in Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary studies and Edinburgh research)—until the onset of major Russia-Iran pressure on Israel around now, roughly two thousand years have elapsed.

The most widely cited estimates of Christian martyrdom come from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. They calculate a cumulative total of approximately seventy million Christian martyrs from the first century to the present day. Strikingly, more than half of that total — over thirty-five million — occurred in the twentieth century alone (we have not finished per capita the 21st century), largely driven by state-sponsored violence under communist and fascist regimes.

In my book Does Grace Have a Ceiling? The Anatomy of the Will, I argue that the architecture of the human will is not an autonomous faculty but a sovereignly designed structure whose natural teleology reveals our absolute dependence upon an external force — not only for grace, but to be generated, moved, directed, and made alive.