It
is no accident that the word TOV appears seven times in the First Story in
Genesis. This is a scribal technique designed to highlight key words
in a context. TOV is one of the most important words in the Hebrew Scriptures. Being
aware of the Big Picture of TOV will help you more
accurately understand the stories that follow the First Story in
Genesis – and the teachings of the Jewish Jesus. Continue reading at
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http://mailchi.mp/fda277861fc6/the-big-picture-of-tov
It is something we are all born with. At birth, babies are endowed with
compassion, with empathy, with the beginnings of a sense of fairness. Every
normal person has a sense of right and wrong, some appreciation of justice and
fairness, some gut feelings that are triggered by kindness and cruelty. called
“genetically hardwired rudimentary belief models.” Even though people are not
aware of them, they are still embedded deep with the brain’s neural networks.
Continue reading at -
http://mailchi.mp/db293466d5a5/infants-belief-models-and-universal-morals
Did
you know that every living thing on earth exists because of a four-letter code?
Did you know that 3 million species make up one thing – life on earth --
and they are interconnected and interdependent on each other? Did you know that
our genome has 3 billion letters and a mutation in a single letter caused
sickle-cell anemia? Did you know that all humans are 99.9% genetically the
same? Understanding what we are is the first step to better and safer lives for
all of us. Continue reading at -
http://mailchi.mp/08c6cd878e13/life-the-priceless-miracle
The
stories of the three men above make it clear that what happened in Nazi Germany
is part of Christian Biblical Heritages. However, Explorers
of the Bible and Biblical Heritages quickly learn to ignore the umbrella
term “Christians.” The total population of Germany in 1939 was 79,375,281:
42,862,652 (54.0%) Protestants and 31,750,112 (40.0%)
Catholics. Many Protestants and Catholics have not view each
other as “legitimate Christians.” Did their religious belief systems produce
behaviors that protected or destroyed lives? Continue reading at -
http://mailchi.mp/3a554b352fa3/nazis-catholics-protestants-belief-conflicts
What
began as a political party functioning as political parties do in a democratic republic
changed dramatically when its leader gained control of the nation’s institutions
of government – especially those that were legally authorized to use
physical and deadly force. No theologies or beliefs about supernatural
creatures involved. Homes are the training centers of ADAM (collective) and
ADAM (individuals). Continue reading at - http://mailchi.mp/b341a2ec7fd9/lives-1st-values-trained-mentored-by-my-parents
In
1919 after World War I, The Constitution of the German Empire was adopted
and the German Empire became Republic governed by a constitution. In 1935
Adolph Hitler’s Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor changed
everything.
Nazi
leaders were later judged as war criminals, but, according to the laws of Nazi
Germany, these crimes were fully legal acts, done in obedience to laws that
were decreed and approved in a perfectly democratic way. What moral absolutes
apply when nobody can be trusted? Continue reading at -
http://mailchi.mp/5ae9284c9b77/remember-what-happened-in-nuremberg
Traditionally,
this is called the “creation of light,” but in verses that follow, the Creator will
speak again, but nothing will be created. Therefore, we shifted our focus to
the Hebrew word translated “light.” The Hebrew word has two additional meanings,
other than “light.” Continue reading at -
http://mailchi.mp/ceedc2ac8528/light-the-creators-gift-to-the-entire-creation
