Okay, this isn’t exactly late-breaking news, but it’s too good to pass up! Christians have been predicting the end of the world for, oh, about 2,000 years now. Science fiction writers have been creating doomsday scenarios for over a century.…
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The World is Coming to an End! . . . Says . . . Stephen Hawking?!?
Tagged with: Christianity, doomsday, God particle, Higgs boson, natural disasters, religion, science, Stephen Hawking, the Apocalypse, the end of the world
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
On Pluto, Atoms, and Other Things (such as Heaven) that Just Keep Getting More Complex
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto last week. And wow! What a bonanza! Before this flyby, all we had were very fuzzy images of Pluto only a few pixels wide. Because Pluto is so far away, so small, and…
Tagged with: angels, atomic theory, devils, heaven, images of Pluto, NASA, New Horizons, Pluto, science, space exploration, subatomic particles, the spiritual world
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, The Afterlife
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, The Afterlife
“The World is Going to Hell in a Handbasket!”
“O tempora, o mores!” Marcus Tullius Cicero growled these famous words to the Roman senate in the first century BC to decry the deterioration of civilized society. “Oh the times!” he lamented. “Oh the standards!” Today, over two thousand years…
Tagged with: chaos, Christianity, Cicero, Hesiod, Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, new Jerusalem, o tempora o mores, Ovid, religion, science, spirituality, technology, what's the matter with kids today
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Do Atheists Go to Heaven?
Do atheists go to heaven? For most atheists, the obvious answer is, “No.” Ironically, atheists agree with traditional Christians on this point. It’s just that atheists don’t think anyone else goes to heaven, either. And traditional Christians think that atheists…
Tagged with: agnosticism, agnostics, atheism, atheists, believing in God, fundamentalism, God, heaven, Jesus Christ, justice, science, the Bible
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Aliens vs. Advent: Swedenborg’s 1758 Book on Extraterrestrial Life
Aliens are very popular these days. Not that we’ve ever actually seen a real one. (No, I don’t go for all the UFO stuff.) But just try to tell Hollywood that! To judge by the movie releases, the galaxy is…
Tagged with: Advent, aliens, Christianity, cosmology, Earths in the Universe, Emanuel Swedenborg, extraterrestrials, Jesus Christ, SETI, Swedenborg, the Bible, the spiritual world, UFO
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Is Heaven Physical? Can Angels Play Tennis?
In a comment on my recent article, “The Afterlife: It’s Not as Different as you Think!” a reader named Richard Neer responded to my statement that angels go through their daily life in much the same way we do here…
Seasons of Life
In January of 1969, a photo was published that forever changed our view of the earth, and of our place in the universe. The photo was taken on Christmas Eve day, 1968, by the crew of Apollo 8—the first humans…
Tagged with: autumn, death, earthrise, fall, old age, seasons, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, spring, summer, winter, youth
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, Spiritual Growth
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, Spiritual Growth
How can we have Faith when So Many Bad Things happen to So Many Good People? Part 2
Click here for Part 1 of this article. In Part 1, we talked about the painful struggles of life, our questioning of God, and how coming to realize that we don’t understand the way God runs this universe is a…
Tagged with: cosmology, Creation, evil, God, human society, natural disasters, nature, pain, science, suffering, the universe, violence
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Science Philosophy and History
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…
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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