by admin | Mar 27, 2024 | Section Six, What Kind of Carpenter is Jesus?, Who am I?
This is a continuation of my consideration of “5 Bible Passages That Caused Me to Lose My Faith” by Kristi Burke. Her first Bible passage was “Romans 9…the starting point of my deconstruction journey.”1 Though she began with verse 16, I started at the beginning...
by admin | Feb 5, 2024 | Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Keep Yourselves From Idols, Section Six
I don’t worship statues, I thought, when I first encountered the end of John’s letter: Little children, keep yourselves1 from idols.2 It might be easier if I did, not necessarily the keeping part: Prostrating myself before some statue in some temple on a...
by admin | Nov 9, 2022 | Christianity, Section Six
It’s not possible to “distinguish the mind of Christ from the ordinary religious mind” without broaching the subject of Christianity, yet I’ve hesitated to do so directly. Recently, however, I quoted For God has consigned all people to disobedience so that...
by admin | Apr 29, 2022 | Section Six, The Book of Life, The New Covenant
If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.1 This verse follows the one I quoted in another essay: Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.2 This is...
by admin | Aug 26, 2015 | Chapter 12, Do not lag in zeal, Love, Romans, Section Three
In this essay I’ll continue looking at the aftermath of Jesus feeding five thousand plus people in the light of his assessment of the Jewish leaders (Ἰουδαῖοι, a form of Ἰουδαῖος)[1] as an answer to how the Father seeking his own is not self-seeking. And ultimately...