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Does Doctrine Matter? Why is it Important to Believe the Right Thing?
Tagged with: Christianity, doctrine, faith alone, God, good works, Jesus Christ, Penal Substitution, the Bible, Trinity of Persons
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 8: God Accepts Sinners as Righteous?
For Part 7, click here: The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 7: Imputed Righteousness? Or start at the beginning: The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 1: God is a Trinity of Persons? And now we come…
Tagged with: Christianity, faith alone, guilt, imputation, imputed righteousness, innocence, righteousness, sin, sinners, sola fide
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
God, Forgiveness, Freedom, and Hell – Part 4
(Note: This article is the last of a four-part series. The first three parts were edited versions of a series of questions by a reader named Rami, and my answers, in the comments section of the article, “What is the…
Tagged with: Christianity, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, God, heaven, hell, judgment, punishment, sin, the spiritual world
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth, The Afterlife
God, Forgiveness, Freedom, and Hell – Part 1
(Note: This article is the first of a four-part series. The first three parts are edited versions of a series of questions by a reader named Rami, and my answers. The original versions appear in the comments section of the…
Tagged with: Christianity, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, forgiveness, freedom, God, hell, salvation, spirituality, Swedenborg
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth
What is the Meaning of the Hyssop Used to Help Satisfy Jesus’ Thirst on the Cross?
Good Friday is the day Christians traditionally commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus. The story of Jesus’ crucifixion is told in all four Gospels, each offering its own variation on the main theme. In narrating the event of Jesus’ death, three…
Tagged with: Christianity, crucifixion, Emanuel Swedenborg, evangelization, Good Friday, hyssop, Jesus Christ, salvation, Swedenborg, the Bible
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
What is the Unpardonable Sin? Am I Doomed?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Joe M: Hi Lee I’ve been a sinner all my life. I even married a woman 9 years ago and I was unfaithful to…
Tagged with: Christianity, damnation, eternal sin, forgiveness, hell, salvation, spiritual rebirth, the Bible, the unforgivable sin, the unpardonable sin
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Why Does God Require our Love, Worship, and Praise? Is God Insecure?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Cat: I am really puzzled by why God would require that Christians must love and worship him. I understand his requirement for us to…
Tagged with: Christianity, Creation, Emanuel Swedenborg, glory, God, love, praise, spirituality, Swedenborg, the Bible, worship
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Are We Saved in an Instant? How was the Thief on the Cross Saved?
The previous article, “How Can a Criminal Get to Heaven?” brought on a whirlwhind of comments about the Protestant belief in salvation by faith alone vs. the belief of the rest of Christianity in salvation by faith together with works.…
Tagged with: Christianity, evil, faith, faith alone, fundamentalism, God, heaven, salvation, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, the Bible, thieves on the cross
Posted in Spiritual Growth
Posted in Spiritual Growth
What is the Meaning of Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh?
The Gospel of Matthew tells us that: After Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came . . . and there, ahead of them, went the star that they had seen at its rising, until it stopped over…
Tagged with: baby Jesus, Christianity, Christmas, frankincense, gold, Jesus Christ, magi, myrrh, spiritual meaning, the Bible, the nativity, wise men
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
What if the Quran were the Bible?
Islam is in the news these days—and mostly not in a good way. Unfortunately, the version of Islam that is grabbing the headlines is its violent, fundamentalist wing. The recent attacks by Muslim extremists in Paris and San Bernardino are…
Tagged with: Christianity, Dit Is Normaal, fundamentalism, Islam, Quran, religion, the Bible, The Holy Quran Experiment, The Middle East, violence, war
Posted in Current Events, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Current Events, The Bible Re-Viewed
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