Recently a reader named Steve asked for my perspective on Dr. Brian Weiss’s book Many Lives, Many Masters. Specifically, he asked about the “past lives” of Dr. Weiss’s pseudonymous patient “Catherine.” This is my response after reading the book. (Note:…
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A Psychological and Spiritual Review of Many Lives, Many Masters, by Brian Weiss
Tagged with: Brian L. Weiss, Brian Weiss, Many Lives, Many Masters, past life regression, past-life therapy, reincarnation, spiritism, spirits, spiritualism, the spiritual world
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife
What Does “Purification for Sins” Mean in Hebrews 1:3?
He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the…
Tagged with: atonement, evil, glorification, God's right hand, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Mary, purification from sin, regeneration, sin, spiritual rebirth
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Superficial Religion
So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. (Genesis 19:36) With this article in our series on Genesis, mercifully, we complete the sorry tale of Genesis 19. If the Bible skeptics want a chapter to turn to in…
Tagged with: Ammon, corruption, Lot, Moab, Scribes and Pharisees, Sodom, Sodom and Gomorrah
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Why did God take 14 Billion Years to Create Human Beings?
Towards the end of my earlier article, “Why did God take 14 Billion Years to Create the Physical World?” I said: The development of complex, rational, spiritually aware beings under material-universe conditions is a long, complex task that had to…
Tagged with: cars, computers, God, human brain, International Space Station, Large Hadron Collider, life in the universe, organelles, pale blue dot, science, the human body, the universe
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Hebrew, Greek, and Swedenborg’s Explanation of Propitiation
Note: This article is an even more technical follow-up to my earlier article, “How did Swedenborg interpret 1 John 2:2: ‘He is the propitiation for our sins’?” Both articles were originally responses to questions posted on Christianity StackExchange. See the…
Tagged with: Ark of the Covenant, atonement, Emanuel Swedenborg, Greek, Greek New Testament, Hebrew, Hebrew Bible, Jesus Christ, mercy, mercy seat, propitiation, Septuagint, the Bible
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Was Jesus a Literalist?
Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing. (Matthew 13:34) With many such parables he spoke the word to them as they were able to hear it; he did not speak to…
Tagged with: Biblical literalism, Christianity, Creation, Creationism, fundamentalism, Jesus, Jesus Christ, literalism, spiritual meaning, the Bible, typology, young Earth creationism
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Can I Ask God to Extinguish My Consciousness?
We are created so that our inner self cannot die. We can believe in God and love God, which means we can have a relationship with God through faith and love. And having a relationship with God is living to…
Tagged with: angels, animal afterlife, animals, annihilationism, death, eternal now, eternity, heaven, hell, the afterlife, time and space
Posted in The Afterlife
Posted in The Afterlife
How Did the People of Eden Live?
In a question posted on Christianity StackExchange a few years ago, a person named Ambrosia asked: I’ve lately been interested in the life of the people in Eden. According to Emanuel Swedenborg, how separated is it from the life we…
Tagged with: Adam, Adam and Eve, Emanuel Swedenborg, Garden of Eden, humanity, innocence, love, marriage, peace, spiritual marriage, spiritual meaning, the Bible
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Bible Re-Viewed
A Divine Rescue Mission
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived. (Genesis 19:29) Tales of brave rescue from the clutches of evil and…
Tagged with: angels, Jesus Christ, Lot, mercy, rescue, Sodom, Sodom and Gomorrah
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
How Can We Believe What the Gospels Say about Jesus?
Recently a reader named Gary submitted a Spiritual Conundrum to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life in which he asked, among other things: I want to understand how you, from a Swedenborgian perspective, conclude that Jesus’ stories are true. How do…
Tagged with: God, Jerusalem, Jesus, material reality, resurrection, Revelation, spiritual meaning, spiritual reality, Swedenborg, the Bible, the empty tomb
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
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