Friday, January 24, 2020

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 --


Thursday, January 23, 2020

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 beliefswill 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 --

Thursday, January 9, 2020

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

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

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

Monday, December 30, 2019

Two Very Different Views of and Responses to Good and Evil


In my earlier email “Good Parents or Warriors Fighting a Cosmic Battle?” I pointed out that my church had taught me this:

The story of The Garden of Eden
is about a cosmic battle between God and Satan.

The ancient Hebrew text teaches something very different:

The story about two people
who did what a talking snake told them instead of doing TOV!

The events in the Garden in Eden, when viewed in the context of the first two stories in Genesis, reveal the two extremes of human actions. Read the rest of the story at --

Thursday, December 26, 2019

Why the Maccabees Aren’t in the Bible.


The books that tell the Hanukkah tale didn't make it into the Hebrew Bible -- but they are in the Catholic one. The First and Second Books of Maccabees contain the the earliest references to the story of Hanukkah and the rededication of the Temple. And yet, they are missing from the Hebrew Bible. Read the rest of the story at --

Monday, December 23, 2019

Good Parents or Warriors Fighting a Cosmic Battle?


The Story of the Garden in Eden was intended to be read in light of the instructions given in the Story of the Creation of the Heaven and Earth.

● The unnamed Creator in the first story made a man and woman at the same time, blessed them and instructed them.

● Yahweh made a man and a woman at different times and places – and only gave the man a commandment.

Read the rest of the story at: