God is love. A nice sentiment. It’s the sort of thing those dreamy-eyed Christians say. But it’s not very practical. Or is it? Consider this: God created the universe. Now does the idea that God is love sound a little…
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God is Love . . . And That Makes All the Difference in the World
Tagged with: angry God, Christian doctrine, Christianity, Creation, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, God is love, God loves you, love, the Bible, the universe, wrathful God
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
Can God Fail?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Achilles: I just read in one of your articles that before Jesus – God had sent many priests and prophets in an ATTEMPT to……
Tagged with: Creation, divine law, divine love, divine wisdom, failure, free will, God, nature of God, omnipotence, omniscience, religion, science, the universe
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
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
Viktor Frankl on Meaning through Relationship: It’s All About Love and Understanding
In the second part of Man’s Search for Meaning, psychiatrist and holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl lists three different ways we can find meaning in life: By creating a work or doing a deed By experiencing something or encountering someone By…
Secrets of Heaven, by Emanuel Swedenborg
What are the stories in Genesis about? Was the world really created in six days, or is there some deeper meaning? What about Adam and Eve? Noah and the Ark? How can we believe these stories in the first few…
Tagged with: Adam and Eve, Creation, Emanuel Swedenborg, Genesis, Noah, Noah and the Ark, Secrets of Heaven, spiritual meaning, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in Books and Literature
Posted in Books and Literature
Containers for God
This article is a sequel to the previous one, “Wavicles of Love.” If God is infinite, how can there be room for anything else? Wouldn’t everything just be a part of God? If God is infinite and therefore is present…
Tagged with: Creation, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, heaven, infinity, love, science, spirituality, the purpose of life, wave-particle duality, wavicle, wisdom, WPLongform
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
The Bible: Literal Inerrancy vs. Divine Depths of Meaning
Here is a comment that a reader named Ben made on my article, “Can We Really Believe the Bible?”: We can definitely believe the Bible. There is no denying that careful interpretation and context are important, but there is no…
Divine Love and Wisdom, by Emanuel Swedenborg
How did God create the universe? What does the universe say about God . . . and about the human psyche? This highly philosophical work will expand the boundaries of your mind, revealing many deep mysteries of the cosmos, the…
Tagged with: cosmology, Creation, Divine Love and Wisdom, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, humanity, love, philosophy, psychology, religion, science, spirituality, wisdom
Posted in Books and Literature
Posted in Books and Literature
Creation vs. Evolution: Can We All Just Calm Down, Please?
This just viral: a fourth grade science quiz. Normally, grade school science quizzes are not that interesting. But when the correct answer to the true/false question “The earth is billions of years old” is “false,” that gets people’s attention. As…
Tagged with: atheism, Christianity, Creation, Creationism, evolution, fundamentalism, Lawrence Krauss, neighbor, religion, science, service, the Bible, young Earth creationism
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Current Events, Science Philosophy and History
Heaven, Regeneration, and the Meaning of Life on Earth
We’ve posted many articles recently about what happens to us when we die. However, to fully comprehend what death entails we need to understand the meaning of life. Why are we here on this earth, anyway? Why do we go…
Tagged with: Creation, Doctor Who, God, heaven, hell, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, neighbor, regeneration, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in Popular Culture, Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Popular Culture, Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
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