Belief in the Resurrection of the Dead: Where Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity Come Together.

That is not broadly grasped. Recently a prominent biologist reported that “a scholar at a religious conference” told him that “what little Judaism has to say about the afterlife is only there because Christians asked them.” But, according to Bruce D. Chilton (Christian scholar) and Jacob Neusner (Jewish scholar), “That is far from the truth.”  Continue reading at –

https://mailchi.mp/4fd2250418e7/belief-in-the-resurrection-of-the-dead-where-rabbinic-judaism-and-christianity-come-together

Before you deal with beliefs about God consider beliefs about the Earth.

When I even hint at questioning beliefs about God, some people instantly unsubscribe from this list! That doesn’t surprise me because for centuries Christians were taught that “unquestioning obedience” was God’s will! So today, I am going to focus on a much less threatening belief model than beliefs about God – belief models about the Earth. We often find them in the same contexts with beliefs about God. Continue reading at --

https://mailchi.mp/f525806c0057/before-you-deal-with-beliefs-about-god-consider-beliefs-about-the-earth

How do Your Beliefs about God compare to Stories about God in your Bible?

Three religions have belief models for their gods that are very similar – Judaism, Christianity and Islam. All three belief models are monotheistic and mutually exclusive. Since the Bible is the most ancient body of information about god -- shouldn’t belief models of god be in harmony with what the Bible reveals about god? Continue reading at --

https://mailchi.mp/40eafa4e025c/how-do-your-beliefs-about-god-compare-to-stories-about-god-in-your-bible

A New Way to Deal With Religious Conflicts! Will You Take the Pledge?

Obviously, attempting to resolve religious conflicts between people who ignore facts, refuse allow anyone to question the way they see things, and refuse to change when errors are discovered in their beliefs – will not lead to good outcomes. In Christianity we have had almost 2,000 years of people fighting and defending their “irrefutable god realities.” Now we have new options for creating a very different future! Read about them at --

https://mailchi.mp/ae55b8b2ae56/a-new-way-to-deal-with-religious-conflicts-will-you-take-the-pledge

Letting the Words of the Bible Tell Their Own Stories.

That is a guideline we have been using since the mid-1980s. “Letting the Bible tell its own story” often creates challenges to our personal belief models. Are the first two stories in the Bible simply two versions of the same story? Do “Jesus is LORD” and “Jesus is Lord” mean the same thing? Continue reading at --

https://mailchi.mp/96e502f9ee5a/letting-the-words-of-the-bible-tell-their-own-stories

Who Created “Good” and “Evil”?

How important is it for people to understand what “good” and “evil” mean? For those of us with Christian Biblical Heritages, evil is a very important word. In the King James Version of the Bible the word “evil” appears 613 times. “Good” appears 720 times. I found this very interesting, because I heard a lot more about evil than I did about good in the church my family attended when I was growing up. That really stood out at the end of every church service when “the invitation” was given. It was an opportunity for “lost” people to be “saved.” Why were they lost and why did they need to be saved? Continue reading at --

https://mailchi.mp/a38b5c20c334/who-created-good-and-evil

The Home: The Creator's Training Center

When the Creator created the Heavens and the Earth in the first story in Genesis, He created one institution to govern it. It was not a religious or political institution.

It was the family.

Before He created humans He provided all of their basic requirements of life. Continue reading at --
https://mailchi.mp/278c2fd24755/the-home-the-creators-training-center