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The Jesus Creed 6 – A Creed for Others
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord you God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these. This is a series of reflections [...]
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Four Hundred Texts on Love (Second Century) 19
49. If a man is not envious or angry, and does not bear a grudge against someone who has offended him, that does not necessarily mean that he loves him. For, while still lacking love, he may be capable of not repaying evil with evil, in accordance with the commandment (cf. Rom. 12:17), and yet [...]
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Heaven & Earth (& Hell) 3 – Unraveling the Caricature
There are many threads one can use to begin unraveling the somewhat common modern caricature of the Christian perspective on reality I described in the last post. I want to start with the affirmation of the very basic Christian belief that God is not somewhere else. The Christian God is everywhere present and filling all [...]
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What is the source of our oneness?
Once again, I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, or reactions my words spur in anyone who happens to read this. Incorporating and responding to the thoughts of others is one of the ways I process thoughts, and the thoughts in this post are certainly less than complete. I’ll start with the paragraph from 1 Corinthians [...]
Posted in Eucharist, Faith Also tagged body, body and blood, bread and wine, christianity, christians, communion, corinthians, dualism, hinduism, Holy Scriptures, holy spirit, life, lord jesus christ, love, marriage, oneness, pluralism, pray, reality, scripture, secular, spiritual, zwingli 5 Comments
Four Hundred Texts on Love (Second Century) 1
1. He who truly loves God prays entirely without distraction, and he who prays entirely without distraction loves God truly. But he whose intellect is fixed on any worldly thing does not pray without distraction, and consequently he does not love God. I’m reminded by this text of another saying: A theologian is one who [...]
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Original Sin 23 – Ephesians 2:3
This verse (or actually just a portion of it) is typically used to support the notion of original sin as inherited guilt. However, for the purpose of this discussion, I’m going to quote all of Ephesians 2 verses 1-10. (And I would even urge people to go reread all of Ephesians again if it’s been [...]
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Original Sin 9 – The Adventures of Dumb and Dumber
Let’s return to Genesis 4 and begin to consider the arc of the whole narrative. I think that’s important because often today, especially in modern evangelicalism, that arc is either abbreviated or almost entirely omitted. If you listen carefully to the problem, the solution, and the narrative connecting the two in much of evangelicalism today, [...]
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The Jesus Creed 7 – John the Baptist: The Story of New Beginnings