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What about Violent Religions? Is God Really Bloodthirsty and Vengeful?

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Lee — 27 Comments

A reader named Jen left this comment on the recent article, What is the Wrath of God? So here is my question: You believe the parts in the Bible about God’s love and God is Love, and all the feel…

What is the Wrath of God? Why was the Old Testament God so Angry, yet Jesus was so Peaceful?

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Lee — 15 Comments

Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Garret: One question that I don’t think you addressed sufficiently in the articles I have seen so far is this: How do you explain…

Tagged with: anger, Emanuel Swedenborg, God, Jesus Christ, love, punishment, spirituality, the Bible, the wrath of God, WPLongform, wrath
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed

Is there Really a Devil? Why??

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Lee — 185 Comments

Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Kayla Lynn: Dear Lee, I’ve been having a hard time discerning the rationality of the Devil. I do not fancy the idea of a…

Tagged with: angels, Christianity, demons, devils, evil, fallen angel, hell, Lucifer, Satan, the Bible, the Devil
Posted in The Afterlife, The Bible Re-Viewed

What is the Biblical basis for disbelief in the doctrine of the Trinity?

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Lee — 69 Comments

The theological basis for this article This answer is based on the Bible interpretations and Christian theology put forth by Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772). This theology is not unitarian as that is usually defined, because Swedenborg stated that the Father, Son, and…

According to Emanuel Swedenborg, will a good person who rejects Jesus go to Heaven?

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Lee — 19 Comments

From the perspective of Swedenborg’s theology, this is a trick question. Technically, according to Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), anyone who rejects Jesus (“the Lord,” as Swedenborg refers to him) cannot go to heaven. However, Swedenborg’s definition of “rejecting the Lord” is…

If you Don’t Believe in the Inerrancy of Scripture, on What Basis can you Interpret Scripture?

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Lee — 16 Comments

The doctrine of biblical inerrancy is very recent in Christian history First, let’s put biblical inerrancy into perspective. Two centuries or so ago, and for all of Christian history before that, not a single Christian church, denomination, or preacher held…

Tagged with: biblical inerrancy, Biblical literalism, Christianity, fundamentalism, inerrancy, literalism, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed

The Logic of Love: Why God became Jesus

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Lee — 89 Comments

I want to talk to you about a subject that is near and dear to my heart. It is also at the heart Christian belief. Though it is delivered in the form of an article, you can think of it…

Tagged with: atheism, Christian belief, Christianity, God, Jesus Christ, love, materialism, religion, skepticism, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in All About God

Spiritual Tornadoes

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Lee — 4 Comments

The month of May is peak tornado season across the U.S. plains and southern states. Already this year five separate tornadoes have caused fatalities, in Cisco, TX, Van, TX, Nashville, AR, Fairdale, IL, and Sand Springs, OK. Just over the…

Faith Alone Is Not Faith

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Lee — 87 Comments

My post two weeks ago titled “Faith Alone Does Not Save . . . No Matter How Many Times Protestants Say It Does” drew a strong reaction. Most of the reaction was positive. But since the article assailed a fundamental defining and…

Tagged with: Christianity, faith, faith alone, faith in Jesus, faithfulness, Jesus Christ, Protestantism, salvation, service, sola fide, the Bible, truth
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed

Faith Alone Does Not Save . . . No Matter How Many Times Protestants Say It Does

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Lee — 579 Comments

“We are saved by faith alone.” The Bible doesn’t say it. In fact, the Bible rejects it. It was not part of Christian belief for the first 1,500 years of Christianity. Even today, only about one-fifth of Christians belong to…

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