by admin | Jun 5, 2017 | Section Four, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
I wrote: It’s axiomatic to me that Jesus didn’t utilize his own godliness, but trusted the Holy Spirit that descended like a dove from heaven, and…remained on him.[11] Otherwise, Jesus’ invitation and command, Follow me,[12] is little more than a cruel joke. And: As...
by admin | Mar 31, 2017 | Section Three, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
During my Christmas holiday Grandmother described her simple faith to me: Jesus died to save us from the god of the Old Testament. She didn’t want me or any preacher or any church or the Bible to confuse her simple faith in her simple gospel. It was an eerie...
by admin | Dec 29, 2016 | Section Three, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
I spend a large portion of my Christmas holiday with three post-Christian women I’ll call Grandmother, Mother and Daughter because of their relationship to one another. I call them post-Christian because they were all professing Christians at one time. Grandmother...
by admin | Jun 23, 2012 | What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
Though I knew nothing of Freud and his theories about sex and aggression at the time, I had immediately equated sex and violence. I grew up in a fairly tough blue collar neighborhood. We boys fought all the time, mostly wrestling matches with an occasional blow with...
by admin | Jun 17, 2012 | What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
I’m not sure I know the answer to God’s treatment of Nadab and Abihu. And with me, there’s some real duplicity here. Though I’m not fond of the particular situation recorded in Leviticus, if Nadab and Abihu had been a couple of notorious child molesters, I’d be...
by admin | Jun 11, 2012 | What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
I have made a reasonably strong case that I should just shut up about the Bible. But I’m not going to do that. Measurements made from or to relative coordinates aren’t completely useless if one knows the position and velocity of those coordinates relative to one’s...