There’s an idea afoot that God cursed Adam and Eve because they disobeyed him. But that’s not what the Bible says. The whole story unfolds in Genesis chapter 3. God had said to Adam, “You may freely eat of every…
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Curses or Consequences: Did God Really Curse Adam and Eve?
Tagged with: Adam, curses, Eve, Garden of Eden, God, nakedness, pain, serpent, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, the Bible, tree of knowledge of good and evil, tree of life
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Strip Search Prank Calls, Domestic Violence: Evil Loves Deception
Warning: This article discusses fictional portrayals and real incidents of sexual assault, abusive relationships, and domestic violence. Last week Annette and I watched the movie “Compliance,” a controversial and disturbing 2012 American thriller written and directed by Craig Zobel. The…
Tagged with: abusive relationships, authority, compliance, Craig Zobel, deception, domestic violence, evil, falsity, Louise Ogborn, prank calls, sex, Stanley Milgram, strip search, violence
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Popular Culture
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Popular Culture
What does Jesus Mean when He Says we Must be Born Again?
How Can I Be Reborn? “No one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.” What the heck does that mean? People who ask you, “Have you been born again?” think that they’ve got it all figured out…
Tagged with: born again, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, Jesus Christ, Nicodemus, reformation, regeneration, repentance, self help, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Video Games, Virtual Reality, and Spiritual Reality
Video games are in the news again in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut school shootings. As explored in a recent piece on WBUR radio titled, “My Son, The Dragon Slayer: The Risks And Rewards Of Growing Up Gaming,” the…
Tagged with: death, heaven, hell, material world, online games, physical reality, spiritual reality, spiritual rebirth, spiritual world, spirituality, video games, virtual reality
Posted in Sports and Recreation
Posted in Sports and Recreation
Heaven and Hell, by Emanuel Swedenborg
Do you wonder what happens after we die? Who doesn’t!? Here is the most extensive eyewitness account of the spiritual world ever published: Heaven and Hell By Emanuel Swedenborg Heaven and Hell was originally published in Latin in 1758. I…
Tagged with: Bernhard Lang, death, Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, heaven, Heaven and Hell, hell, Jonathan S. Rose, religion, Robert H. Kirven, spirituality
Posted in Books and Literature, The Afterlife
Posted in Books and Literature, The Afterlife
Where is the Proof of the Afterlife?
For a video reading of this article on YouTube, click here. In a comment on my recent article, “If God is Love, Why all the Pain and Suffering?” a reader named Mike wrote: All good and fine but where is…
Tagged with: Eben Alexander, Emanuel Swedenborg, heaven, Heaven and Hell, near-death experiences, philosophy, science, spirituality, Steve Jobs, the material world, the spiritual world
Posted in The Afterlife
Posted in The Afterlife
If God is Love, Why all the Pain and Suffering?
How could a loving God allow so much evil? All it takes is a glance at the top stories in the daily news to show us that there is an awful lot of death, destruction, pain, and suffering in our…
Tagged with: death, evil, God, justice, love, natural disasters, pain, poverty, punishment, suffering, violence, war
Posted in All About God, Pain and Suffering
Posted in All About God, Pain and Suffering
Lance Armstrong Takes On the World
Rumor has it that in an upcoming interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong will make a “limited confession” to using performance-enhancing drugs during the time period when he won the prestigious Tour de France bicycle race for seven straight years…
Tagged with: bicycle racing, confession, cycling, doping, entropy, Lance Armstrong, Livestrong Foundation, performance-enhancing drugs, redemption, spiritual rebirth, sports, the world, Tour de France
Posted in Spiritual Growth, Sports and Recreation
Posted in Spiritual Growth, Sports and Recreation
Real Marriage vs. Legal Marriage
Bob and Norma Clark were married on August 29, 1964. Or were they? Yes, they had a beautiful wedding in a church, complete with all the trimmings. But no, their marriage never got recorded with the County Clerk in San…
Nations are People, My Friend!
On December 31, 2012, North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, gave a New Year’s speech, vowing that his country would open up a new phase and make a radical turn-around in its economy during the coming year. He also made…
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