Bridge of Reason

If you want to know what this series is about see my  first post here . We looked last time at Brian Simmons’ version of the story of Photini, the woman at the well. He drew some pretty peculiar teaching from the text in John 4 and you might be forgiven for wondering where it came from. It came from ‘Sod.’ No more than 17 seconds into his talk he says, ‘someone’s going to get into Sod,’ later exclaiming, ‘Come on Sodites,’ as he goes on with his story. ‘Jesus is speaking out of the Sod realm,’ he tells us. We need to see this dialogue, ‘in the Sod lens,’ he insists.. He is drawing on a Hebrew model of Exegesis with the acronym PaRDeS, which postulates four levels of understanding in Hebrew thought. According to Wikipedia , the levels in this 3,000-year-old tradition are: Peshat – the surface, straight, or literal meaning. Remez – ‘hints’ or the deep (allegorical: hidden or symbolic) meaning beyond the literal sense. Derash – from the Hebrew darash: ‘inquire’ (‘se...