I’ve written a new article on “Christian Beliefs” that the Bible Doesn’t Teach. Its purpose is to show that many old, traditional, and common “Christian beliefs” are not actually taught in the Bible, even though many people think they are. This…
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The Bible Doesn’t Say It!
Tagged with: biblical inerrancy, Christian beliefs, Christianity, faith, faith alone, fundamentalism, God, Jesus Christ, pay the penalty, the Bible, the Trinity, Trinity of Persons, Vicarious Atonement
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Good News of Great Joy
At Christmastime, Christians celebrate the greatest event that has ever taken place—the greatest event that ever will take place. It is not a victory in war. It is not a world championship in sports. It is not a triumph of…
Tagged with: Advent, baby Jesus, Christianity, Christmas, God, great events, Jesus Christ, love, religion, spirituality, the Incarnation
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
How does Jesus Appear to Us? Can We See God Face to Face?
Last month a Swedenborg reader named Nevada Sample submitted a spiritual conundrum about how Jesus appears to human beings and to angels. Here is a shortened version of what he wrote, focusing on his questions: I have just read your…
Tagged with: angels, Christianity, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, God With Us, Jesus Christ, religion, spiritual sun, spirituality, sun of heaven, the Bible, the Transfiguration, vision of Christ
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook, by Emanuel Swedenborg
The Heavenly City is Swedenborg’s own brief introduction to his religious ideas, translated into readable modern English. If you want to get the basics on Swedenborg in his own words, without having to struggle through old-fashioned translations, this is the…
Antoinette Tuff and the Averted School Shooting: God’s Love in Action
Last week, on Tuesday, August 20, 2013, Michael Brandon Hill, 20, walked into an elementary school armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition. The elementary school was the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur,…
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
Wavicles of Love
There is an ancient theory that the deeper we look into the nature of reality, the simpler it gets. The Greek philosopher Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 BC) is often given credit for being the originator of the idea…
Tagged with: atomic theory, Democritus, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, Higgs boson, love, particles, physics, science, wave-particle duality, waves, wavicle, wisdom
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
Quick! Guess! What was the hot topic for Christian leaders a few centuries after Jesus Christ died? Naturally, they were having a spirited discussion about the nature of God. But that doesn’t quite capture what was going on. In the…
Tagged with: Athanasian Creed, Christianity, Council of Nicaea, Father, God, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Nicene Creed, Son, the Bible, Trinity, Trinity of Persons
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
Christianity is Dead. Long Live Christianity!
Christianity as it has existed for most of the last two thousand years is in its death throes. For many centuries, Christianity ruled Western minds, and thus Western society. The Christian Church was the final authority on the truth or…
Tagged with: ancient Judaism, Athanasian Creed, Christianity, Constantine, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, Jesus Christ, Judaism, Nicene Creed, religion, the Bible, the new Christianity, True Christianity
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Divine Providence, by Emanuel Swedenborg
How can a loving God allow so much evil in the universe? What is the purpose of all the pain and suffering we humans endure? Does God have a plan for us? If you’ve ever wondered how an all-loving and…
Tagged with: Divine Providence, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, God, hope, New Century Edition, pain, purpose, spirituality, suffering, the question of evil, violence, war
Posted in Books and Literature
Posted in Books and Literature
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