You have put wilderness as desert and waste places. So reading the verse as all being the same thing, rather than being about separate things.
Can you show any other supporting verses that they are all the same thing?
So what is the difference between Wilderness like Eden, and Eden like...
Maybe instead of escaping it we could confront it.
So what would happen to the curse if the blessings were found to be saying the same things as the curses, and the curses were saying the same things as the blessings?
As even the blessings have been cursed:
If ye will not hear, and if ye...
If you like the paradoxical nature of the Law, then you'd probably like Daniel Boyarin's essay, Was Paul and Antisemite? In the essay Professor Boyarin argues that Paul's belief was that if you "do the Law" you will not fulfill the Law, since living by faith is the fulfillment of the Law, while...
The Law is both a blessing and a curse.
It is not about accepting or rejecting the law. It is about understanding the law. If the commands are understood correctly then it is a blessing and leads towards. But if the commands are not understood correctly then it is a curse and leads away...
In Mark they accused Him of saying He would destroy the temple that is made with hands. That is human hands. Jesus really meant His own body which was "cut out without hands" (Daniel 2:34) So they completely represented Jesus; one witness even represented Jesus as someone who claimed He would...
That is perjury in John, as Matthew and Mark say it is a false made up testimony that said he would rebuild the temple in 3 days, the temple still has not been rebuilt.
This is what was possibly meant by, "the Pharisees are like Graves, and you don't know they're there" (Luke 11:44)...
John...
Deuteronomy 28:1
If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.
Deuteronomy 28:2
All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:
Malachi2:2
If...
In response to Jewscout's comment
Galations 3:10
"For as many are of the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, "cursed is everrone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them."
This is saying that it is written in the Torah that...