Here is a question that a reader named leeanemeredith recently asked in a comment here: I’ve been thinking on your analogy of God surveying the entire scene of events. Does this somehow mean that everything that’s happened is still somehow…
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If God Sees Everything, Is Everything that has Ever Happened Still Happening?
Tagged with: God, the material world, the spiritual world, the future, free will, choices, time, determinism, time and space, the past
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, All About God
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, All About God
Dethroning the Imperial god of Constantine and Calvin
(Note: This post is an edited version of a paper written for an academic program at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. It was originally written for a professor who adheres to Liberation Theology. It is therefore addressed to…
Tagged with: Allan Boesak, Black Liberation Theology, Christianity, Constantine the Great, Council of Nicaea, Emanuel Swedenborg, imperialism, John Calvin, Liberation Theology, Michael Servetus, the Bible, Trinity of Persons
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History, The Bible Re-Viewed
Does “Us” in Genesis 1:26, 3:22, and 11:7 Refer to the Trinity of Persons?
Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the…
Tagged with: Abraham, angels, Christianity, Jacob wrestles with the angel, Plural of Majesty, polytheism, Royal We, Satan, the Bible, The book of Job, Trinity of Persons, wrestling with angels
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Did Swedenborg See Himself as a Prophet?
A recent question on Christianity StackExchange asked: The Wikipedia article on Emanuel Swedenborg mentions his revelations, but doesn’t use the term “prophet” even once. Did Swedenborg not see himself as a prophet? What is a prophet, according to Swedenborg, other…
Tagged with: correspondences, doctrine, Emanuel Swedenborg, exegesis, inspiration, prophecy, prophets, the Bible
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Desert Warfare
Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. (Matthew 4:1) Among the various terrains in which wars can be fought, the desert is one of the most severe and unforgiving. Intense heat;…
Tagged with: Abraham, Babylon, desert, ego, glorification, Jesus Christ, Lot, spiritual rebirth, temptation, the Bible, war
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Water and Spirit
“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” (Matthew 3:11)…
Tagged with: Abraham, baptism, baptism with the Holy Spirit, baptism with water, Bethel, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, Lot, spiritual rebirth, the Bible, wealth
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
A Swedenborgian in Dialog with Black Consciousness and Black Liberation Theology
(Note: This post is an edited version of a paper written for an academic program at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. References for some quotations have been left in condensed academic format. For full publication information, see the…
And Jesus Grew in Wisdom
After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. (Luke 2:46–47) The story of Jesus as…
Tagged with: Abraham, Egypt, famine, fruitfulness, gender roles, Jesus Christ, Pharaoh, Sarah, the Bible
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth
A Child of Revelation
This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. (Luke 2:34–35) “The thoughts of many…
Tagged with: Bethel, Canaan, Holy Land, Jesus Christ, land of Canaan, Moreh, Shechem, south, the Bible
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Is Free Will an Illusion? A Response to Sam Harris
In a recent comment, a reader named K asked me to respond to this article: “Why You Probably Don’t Have Free Will,” by Jack Maden. Here is the article’s opening synopsis: “Neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris argues that free will…
Tagged with: atheism, atheists, Calvinism, determinism, free will, freedom, God, human brain, materialism, Sam Harris, science and religion
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
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