One
group pictures themselves as people created from parts of a dead god. The other
group views themselves as individuals with the presence of a living god. Which
way do you view yourself? Read the complete email at –
Friday, November 15, 2019
Thursday, November 14, 2019
But what if a lot of us have been wrong about a lot of things . . . maybe about life after death?
How
many of us have spent a lot of our lives being wrong -- not about everything – but about some important things. Now let’s
expand that thought to generations of
people who lived their whole lives being wrong about some big things?
Continue reading at --
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
When My Bible became a Time Machine
For
most of my life, when I read or heard the word “Earth” – anywhere -- the picture that popped into my mind was the familiar
photograph of the Earth that has been taken from space. How could it be anything else! Well
it did!!! Continue reading at --
Monday, November 11, 2019
Knowing the difference between self-evident truths and religious truths.
To
invoke the “Creator” as the only basis
of the “‘truths” of the new nation would
be a very authoritarian and religious approach to truth. In his original rough draft, Thomas Jefferson
wrote, “We hold these truths sacred
and undeniable . . .” But that is not what we find in the
Declaration of Independence. Continue reading at --
Sunday, November 10, 2019
Thomas Jefferson and “The Creator” in the Declaration of Independence
Who
is the “Creator” in the Declaration of Independence? Most people
mistakenly believe that Thomas Jefferson wrote the above words so it must be
his God. But Thomas Jefferson did not write the Declaration of Independence and present it to the Continental
Congress. Continue reading at --
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