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 –
The TOV Center Project advocates Lives 1st as a primary core value and the TOV Standard as a guide for making all decisions. It was the Creator's Standard. Acts that measure Tov protect lives, preserve lives, make lives more functional, and increase the quality of life! It is a universal standard.
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 --
Thursday, November 7, 2019
How the TOV Standard Can Change Your Life and Relationships
The
TOV Standard is found in the first chapter
of Genesis. Its presence is reflected
in stories throughout Jewish and
Christian Scriptures. However, benefiting from the TOV Standard does not
require belief in any theology or relationship to any organized religion.
The TOV Standard transforms the ways
people make decisions, judge human behaviors,
create relationships and work with
others to change things. Continue reading at --
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Hating with a Divine Standard
The
Bible opens with some radical new ideas for the ancient world:
●
The god that created the Heaven and the
Earth “used a standard” to measure its work.
●
“Human life” was the highest value on
that divine standard.
●
That god also “created all humans in its
image.”
But
one of the most radical ideas of all was this – continue reading at --
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