Towards the end of my earlier article, “Why did God take 14 Billion Years to Create the Physical World?” I said: The development of complex, rational, spiritually aware beings under material-universe conditions is a long, complex task that had to…
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Why did God take 14 Billion Years to Create Human Beings?
Tagged with: cars, computers, God, human brain, International Space Station, Large Hadron Collider, life in the universe, organelles, pale blue dot, science, the human body, the universe
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
How Can We Believe What the Gospels Say about Jesus?
Recently a reader named Gary submitted a Spiritual Conundrum to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life in which he asked, among other things: I want to understand how you, from a Swedenborgian perspective, conclude that Jesus’ stories are true. How do…
Tagged with: God, Jerusalem, Jesus, material reality, resurrection, Revelation, spiritual meaning, spiritual reality, Swedenborg, the Bible, the empty tomb
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Swedenborgian Thoughts on Vedic Philosophy
Recently a reader from Germany named Michelle submitted a Spiritual Conundrum to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life asking for my thoughts on some Vedic (Hindu) ideas quoted from an article by Swiss poet and thinker Armin Risi. Michelle began by…
Tagged with: Armin Risi, dualism, duality, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, good and evil, Hinduism, peace, polarity, Vedic Philosophy, war
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Sodom and Gomorrah
Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities, and also the vegetation in the…
Tagged with: bible, Christianity, Consider the Consequences, evil, Genesis, God, homosexuality, salvation, selfishness, sin of Sodom, Sodom, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Bible
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Why did God take 14 Billion Years to Create the Physical World?
Recently in the comments section of one of the articles here, a reader named World Questioner asked: Why did God take 15 billion years to create the physical world? Couldn’t he have done it in just six days? What is…
Tagged with: cosmology, Creation, evolution, God, life in the universe, material reality, process, science and religion, the universe, time, time and space
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Love, Mercy, and Evil
Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? (Genesis 18:23) In the previous article in our series on the inner life of Jesus, we followed the story of Abraham having a meal with…
Tagged with: Abraham, bible, Christianity, compassion, God, healing, Jesus, love, mercy, perfectionism, salvation, Sodom, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Is God Free?
In a recent comment here on Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life, a reader called sran4275 posted two videos by American intellectual Robert Lawrence Kuhn titled “Is God Totally Free?” and “How Free is God?” The videos feature interviews with various…
Tagged with: divine law, free will, freedom, freedom of choice, God, love, omnipotence, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, time and space
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
Why is God Always Silent?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Lincoln: Dear Lee, I’ve been a reader of this blog for a few years now and I think it offers a truly beautiful, logical…
Tagged with: atheism, bible, Christianity, doubt, faith, free will, God, Jesus, materialism, nature, prayer, talking with God, the Bible, the voice of God, The Word of God
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
Communing with God
“If I have found favor in your eyes, my Lord, do not pass your servant by. Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree. Let me get you something…
Tagged with: Abraham, baptism, bible, Communion, divine love, divine wisdom, God, Holy Supper, Isaac, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Sarah, the Bible
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth
Posted in All About God, Spiritual Growth
Will We Meet Christ In the Clouds?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Olakunle Ilori: For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of…
Tagged with: angels, clouds of heaven, Emanuel Swedenborg, end of the world, end times, faith, God, heaven, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Paul, The Ascension, the Bible, the Rapture, the Second Coming
Posted in The Afterlife, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Afterlife, The Bible Re-Viewed
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