For Part 2, click here: The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 2: Original Sin? Or start at the beginning: The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 1: God is a Trinity of Persons? After stating (falsely) that we…
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The Faulty Foundations of Faith Alone – Part 3: It’s Impossible to Satisfy God?
Tagged with: divine justice, faith alone, good deeds, good works, perfection, Protestantism, righteousness, salvation, sin, sola fide
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, 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
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
Did Jesus Really Die to Pay the Penalty for our Sins?!?
One day some years ago, a fundamentalist Christian tract came through the mail slot. I almost tossed it out. But out of curiosity, I gave it a read-through. It’s a typical piece. And it pushes an old “Christian belief” that…
Tagged with: belief, Christianity, crucifixion, faith, faith and works, fundamentalism, God, heaven, Jesus Christ, salvation, sin, the Bible, Vicarious Atonement
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
World Series Obstruction: Intent or Not Intent, That is the Question?
In a freak ending—a first in World Series history—game three of the 2013 World Series matchup between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals ended with an obstruction call. Here’s the official definition of “obstruction” from the Major…
Tagged with: Allen Craig, Boston Red Sox, evil, Jim Joyce, Major League Baseball, obstruction, obstruction call, obstruction rule, sin, spirituality, St. Louis Cardinals, Will Middlebrooks, World Series 2013
Posted in Sports and Recreation
Posted in Sports and Recreation
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Swedenborg’s Garden of Theology
An Introduction to Emanuel Swedenborg’s Published Theological Works
By Jonathan S. Rose
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