Is spanking biblical? Contrary to popular belief, the answer is no. Yes, there is corporal punishment in the Bible. But no, there isn’t spanking in the Bible. Corporal punishment as mentioned in the Bible involves striking the back of the…
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Is Spanking Biblical?
Tagged with: clothing, corporal punishment, dominance, nudity, punishment, sexuality, shame, spanking, spare the rod and spoil the child, submission, the Bible
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Sex Marriage Relationships
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Sex Marriage Relationships
“Your Kids are Not Special”
“Your kids are not special.” That is the message of a TikTok that has gone viral: @lisaconselatore #tiredteacher #enough #raisingkids #timetolisten #supportteachers #culturetalk #culturecheck #teachersoftiktok #teachersontiktok #teaching2023belike ♬ original sound – Lisa Conselatore In it, Lisa Conselatore, an experienced teacher,…
Tagged with: child-raising, children, community, entitled children, heaven, Lisa Conselatore, parenting, raising children, spiritual child-raising, spoiled children
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships
Jesus Was Not White
Jesus was not White. He wasn’t Black, either. Jesus was Middle Eastern. Biblically, he was descended, not from Japheth, nor from Ham, but from Shem. Historically, he lived, not in Europe, nor in Africa (though he did spend some time…
Tagged with: Christianity, Historical Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joseph, Mary, race relations, Shem Ham and Japeth, the birth of Jesus Christ
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
Are We All Just Bundles of Quantum Energy?
In a recent comment, a reader named Anton said: Hi Lee, I lately watched a documentary about quantum physics that just confused me so much, to the point where I began to think about the transition and distinction between the…
The Ancestors in African Spirituality in Comparison with Swedenborg’s Experience of the Spiritual World
(Note: This post is a lightly edited version of a paper written in 2022 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…
If the Trinity of Persons is False, Why did God Allow it to Prevail in the Christian Church?
In a question on Christianity StackExchange here, a user asks: According to non-Trinitarians, if God’s nature is not adequately portrayed by trinitarian theology, then why did God allow such an erroneous understanding of His nature to become so widespread among…
Tagged with: Arianism, Christianity, Constantine, Constantine the Great, Council of Nicaea, doctrine of the Trinity, Peter, the Trinity, Trinity, Trinity of Persons
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Is God a Spirit Being?
In a comment here, a reader named leeannemeredith wrote: Do you think God is a Spirit Being? I get tied up in these questions regarding the nature of God. Where or how God came into being. Sometimes I think of…
Tagged with: God, Jesus Christ, materialism, monotheism, pantheism, polytheism, the Divine Humanity, the material world, the spiritual world
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
If God Sees Everything, Is Everything that has Ever Happened Still Happening?
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…
Tagged with: choices, determinism, free will, God, the future, the material world, the past, the spiritual world, time, time and space
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
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
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