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I’m a Christian . . . But it’s Not What You’re Thinking

Here is a guest post I wrote for Eva over at The Aspirational Agnostic: Searching for a God who’s playing hard to get. The post is in answer to the question, “What do you believe and why do you believe

Posted in Spiritual Growth

Do the Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg take Precedence over the Bible?

Here is a question that a reader named Lara asked in a comment on the article, “Did Jesus Really Die to Pay the Penalty for our Sins?”: I was wondering why so much of your site and the large majority

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Posted in Science Philosophy and History, The Bible Re-Viewed

The Mother of All the Living

In Genesis 3:20, after Adam and Eve have earned themselves a one-way trip out of the Garden of Eden, we read: The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. I am struck by

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Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed

“And They Lived Happily Ever After”

I have a pet peeve about the love stories in many popular movies and novels. We could call it the and-they-lived-happily-ever-after complex. For classic fairy tales, “And they lived happily ever after” is the most popular ending. Here’s the pattern:

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Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships

Must We Answer in Heaven for Misbehavior we have Confessed To on Earth?

In the article, “The Bible, Emanuel Swedenborg, and Reincarnation,” I wrote this: In the spiritual world, it is not only possible for us to re-experience events in our own lives from the records of it in our spiritual memory, but

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Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife

Will We See our Pets Again in Heaven?

A reader named Grace submitted this Spiritual Conundrum to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life: I lost my 12 year old Lab to brain Cancer last summer. I miss him terribly. Will we see our pets again in heaven? Thanks for

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Posted in The Afterlife

Visions of Heaven, by Lisa Miller

Released just in time for Easter is this new book published by TIME: (We picked up a copy at the local supermarket checkout stand under a different title: Discovering Heaven: How Our Ideas About the Afterlife Shape How We Live Today.)

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Posted in The Afterlife

Noah’s Ark: A Sea Change in the Human Mind

What do the stories of Creation and Noah’s Ark have in common? Umm . . . atheists and fundamentalists spend a lot of time arguing about them? Haha! Yes they do. But besides that? They’re both really old? Yes, they

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Posted in Science Philosophy and History, The Bible Re-Viewed

A Christian Movie Review of Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah”

(Warning: major movie plot spoilers below) First, the disclaimer: Darren Aronofsky’s movie Noah is not faithful to the Bible story. If your primary interest is to see a dramatization of the Bible narrative of Noah and the Ark as told

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Posted in Popular Culture, The Bible Re-Viewed

The Bible Says It, and I Believe It!

I’ve written a new article on Christian Beliefs that the Bible Does Teach. It is a companion piece to my previous article, “Christian Beliefs” that the Bible Doesn’t Teach. This new article is meant to show that the basic beliefs

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Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
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