These days the Ten Commandments may seem a bit . . . old. After all, they were delivered over three thousand years ago. Could a set of laws given in such archaic, semi-barbaric times still be relevant today? The Ten…
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The Ten Commandments: Our Spiritual Inventory List
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Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
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
The Song of Mary: My Soul Magnifies the Lord
Reading: Luke 1:39–55 The Song of Mary And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.” These words begin the poetic speech by Mary traditionally called “The Magnificat,” from the first word of…
Eat My Flesh, Drink My Blood
When it comes to the Christian sacrament of the Holy Supper, it’s all about eating and drinking. That’s true whether we look at it physically, philosophically, spiritually, or interpersonally. Though our observance of this sacrament is based on the Lord’s…
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Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
From Literal Slavery to Spiritual Freedom
In Exodus 6:5–6, God said to Moses: I have heard the groaning of the Israelites whom the Egyptians are holding as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. Say therefore to the Israelites, “I am the Lord, and I will…
How God Speaks in the Bible to Us Boneheads
In a recent post titled, “Do the Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg take Precedence over the Bible?” I wrote: If any truth were to come to us direct from God, we wouldn’t be able to understand it. Pure truth as it…
Tagged with: Christianity, God, golden calf, Judaism, Moses, Mount Sinai, religion, spiritual meaning, stone tablets, the Bible, The Ten Commandments, the voice of God
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Noah’s Ark: A Sea Change in the Human Mind
What do the stories of Creation and Noah’s Ark have in common? Umm . . . atheists and fundamentalists spend a lot of time arguing about them? Haha! Yes they do. But besides that? They’re both really old? Yes, they…
Bible Study Notes, by Anita S. Dole
Practical and spiritual Bible lessons for all ages In the early 1950s, Anita S. Dole completed a graded set of Bible Study Notes intended for use in Swedenborgian Sunday Schools. Since then, they have become popular with Bible students all…
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…
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