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…
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Heaven, Regeneration, and the Meaning of Life on Earth
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
Self-Esteem is Made to be Broken
Megan Thode believes that Lehigh University owes her a B. When instead she received a C+ in a class critical to her intended career as a professional counselor, she challenged the grade through the usual university channels. She even called…
Tagged with: children, emotional intelligence, God, Lehigh University, love, Megan Thode, neighbor, psychology, self-esteem, self-image, service, spiritual rebirth, spirituality
Posted in Current Events, Spiritual Growth
Posted in Current Events, Spiritual Growth
Curses or Consequences: Did God Really Curse Adam and Eve?
There’s an idea afoot that God cursed Adam and Eve because they disobeyed him. But that’s not what the Bible says. The whole story unfolds in Genesis chapter 3. God had said to Adam, “You may freely eat of every…
Tagged with: Adam, curses, Eve, Garden of Eden, God, nakedness, pain, serpent, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, the Bible, tree of knowledge of good and evil, tree of life
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
What does Jesus Mean when He Says we Must be Born Again?
How Can I Be Reborn? “No one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.” What the heck does that mean? People who ask you, “Have you been born again?” think that they’ve got it all figured out…
Tagged with: born again, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, Jesus Christ, Nicodemus, reformation, regeneration, repentance, self help, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Video Games, Virtual Reality, and Spiritual Reality
Video games are in the news again in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut school shootings. As explored in a recent piece on WBUR radio titled, “My Son, The Dragon Slayer: The Risks And Rewards Of Growing Up Gaming,” the…
Tagged with: death, heaven, hell, material world, online games, physical reality, spiritual reality, spiritual rebirth, spiritual world, spirituality, video games, virtual reality
Posted in Sports and Recreation
Posted in Sports and Recreation
Lance Armstrong Takes On the World
Rumor has it that in an upcoming interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong will make a “limited confession” to using performance-enhancing drugs during the time period when he won the prestigious Tour de France bicycle race for seven straight years…
Tagged with: bicycle racing, confession, cycling, doping, entropy, Lance Armstrong, Livestrong Foundation, performance-enhancing drugs, redemption, spiritual rebirth, sports, the world, Tour de France
Posted in Spiritual Growth, Sports and Recreation
Posted in Spiritual Growth, Sports and Recreation
Can We Really Believe the Bible?
Some Thoughts for Those who Wish they Could Our best modern science tells us that: The universe is almost fourteen billion years old. Our solar system formed gradually about four and a half billion years ago. Life first appeared on…
Tagged with: Adam, Christianity, correspondences, Creation, Eve, rationality, science, spiritual meaning, spiritual rebirth, the Bible
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Can Gang Members Go to Heaven? (Is Life Fair?)
A couple years ago a Swedenborg reader named Sue from San Francisco asked me a question. She had been thinking about an incident in which a 17-year-old gang member from Oakland had been shot and killed in a San Francisco…
Tagged with: children, death, gangs, heaven, hell, justice, pain, poverty, reincarnation, spiritual rebirth, suffering, violence
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
Death and Rebirth, by Lee Woofenden
Here is a book that I wrote in 1995 when I was in seminary, and finally got into print a decade later in 2005: Death and Rebirth From Near-Death Experiences to Eternal Life by Lee Woofenden
Tagged with: death, Emanuel Swedenborg, heaven, near-death experiences, spiritual rebirth, spirituality
Posted in Books and Literature, The Afterlife
Posted in Books and Literature, The Afterlife
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