In the comments section of the article “Your Crowdsourced Mind” (which I recommend you read to get the most out of this article), a reader named K asked: If everyone has a so-called crowdsourced mind, then what were the first…
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If Our Thoughts Come from the Spiritual World, Where Did the First Humans Get their Thoughts?
Tagged with: Adam, Adam and Eve, angels, bible, Christianity, community, Creation, crowdsourcing, Garden of Eden, Genesis, God, Jesus, pre-Adamites, spirits, the human mind
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, The Bible Re-Viewed
Was Adam Anatomically in God’s Image?
God is human in the New Testament God the Father, which is the divine soul, is non-material, and therefore does not have a physical body made out of physical matter as we do. God the Son, which is the divine…
Tagged with: Adam, anatomy, Christianity, Creation, God, Jesus Christ, the Bible, the human body
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
Where is the Garden of Eden?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by the Rev. Fats Montsho: Does Swedenborg in any of his books geographically describe Eden in detail? Thanks for the interesting question, Rev. Montsho! When we hear “Eden”…
Tagged with: Adam, Adam and Eve, Canaan, Creation, Emanuel Swedenborg, Eve, Garden of Eden, Genesis, land of Canaan, Swedenborg, the Bible, tree of knowledge of good and evil, tree of life
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
“Wives, submit to your husbands.”
Wives, submit to your husbands. (Ephesians 5:22) That is a misquote of Paul. “What?!? That’s exactly what Paul says! Here it is from the King James Version—God’s own translation of the Bible:” Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands. “And…
Tagged with: Adam, Christianity, complementarianism, egalitarianism, Eve, female submission, love, male dominance, male headship, marriage
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Bible Re-Viewed
The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 2: Original Sin?
For Part 1, click here: The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 1: God is a Trinity of Persons? The doctrine of Original Sin is another faulty foundation of faith alone that predates Protestantism. Like the Trinity of Persons, it is…
Tagged with: Adam, Adam and Eve, born evil, evil, faith alone, John Calvin, Martin Luther, original sin, Protestantism, salvation, sin
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, 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…
Tagged with: Adam, angels, Eve, God, honor your father and your mother, Mitochondrial Eve, Mother's Day, spirituality, the Bible, the bride of Christ, the Divine Feminine, Y-chromosomal Adam
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
What is the Source of Human Fragility, Sickness, and Disease?
Here is a spiritual conundrum posed by a reader named Joe: I’m looking for doctrinal statements that deal with the human physical fragility and its source. Is human fragility (sickness, disease, etc.) a consequence of original sin? Is human fragility…
Tagged with: Adam, disease, Eve, evil, health, medicine, pain, sickness, spirituality, suffering, violence, war, WPLongform
Posted in Pain and Suffering
Posted in Pain and Suffering
Man, Woman, and the Two Creation Stories of Genesis
A reader named Kim left a long and thoughtful comment on my previous post, “What are the Roles of Men and Women toward Each Other and in Society?” This post is a response to that comment—which I’ll quote for you…
Tagged with: Adam, Creation, Eve, female submission, gender equality, gender roles, Genesis, male dominance, man, marriage, the Bible, woman
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Bible Re-Viewed
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