Tag: curiosity
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Be Careful What You Ask For Church
The last few weeks have been full of intensive Bible study. (The fruits of that will bear soon in a few articles I’m working on) I cracked a smile at one point, realizing that when the church says to “study your Bible,” is that really what they want? Growing up in a conservative church, there…
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A Heavenly Conversation
Jesus: “Hey dad, those humans are acting up again.” God: “Which of their many shenanigans are you referring to?” Jesus: “They keep demanding that the stories their own ancestors made up as mythology and etiology, are literal factual history. And they keep sweeping away all my near-exclusive teachings on the poor, the widow, and the…
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“Jonah, For Once Would You Just Think Of The Cattle?”
Have you ever had something you could not have possibly cared less about, and then wound up eventually caring greatly about that exact thing? The God of the Bible, if the text is to be assumed as univocal, certainly seems to do this. He wipes all of humanity out in a flood, then promises not…
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God’s Feelings: Only Some are Valid?
Genesis states that we are created in God’s image and likeness. I’m not suggesting that God is in all ways like us, but He must share at least some attributes. The Bible is full of verses that testify to God having feelings, or at least that the authors of the day felt that God possessed…
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Biblical Giants. Real, Myth, or In-between?
Legends of giants have captivated people since the beginning of our ability to describe them. Legends exist in more than just the bible. Many cultures have stories of these inhumanly tall creatures. Since I was a child I was fascinated by the stories, albeit rather skeptical on their veracity. How would we not have any…
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Why does someone deconstruct?
There are some who assume a person deconstructing must have some negative driving experience pushing them down this road. There must have been some past religious trauma for this to happen. It can be true, absolutely! But it’s not a requirement, and the entirety of the motive can simply be….because it was my time. No…
Space For Doubt 