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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When your faith community disagrees with itself about something it holds sacred, what helps you stay at the table, and what makes someone finally walk out the door?”
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I love this line: Grace is our collective safeguard against the society becoming drenched in sin. I grew up Christian on the East Coast of America and tasted many varietals of the sin/shame/damnation Christianity.... - Gypsy Fulton...
There are many important things we need as humans to succeed at anything and many of these can not be obtained but through God in fact to live healthy lives let’s start with forgiveness we are told we must forgive to be forgiven ….forgiveness is a very deep wonderful thing indeed... - Jwhite6783...
Hello! One continuous topic that stays on my mind is the correlation between the seen and the unseen at a molecular level. How it is energy and frequency that holds our universe together. How there is no empty space.... - xander...
Jack is very wise, classical angels are make-believe, real angels are actually aliens.
- dqueencat...
Lessons from the Rescue: What Rescue Teaches Us About God's Mercy
Amidst the chaotic rush of our everyday schedules, we frequently miss the profound insights waiting in unlikely corners. The rescues serve as one such sanctuary of wisdom, where dedicated caretakers labor without ceasing to preserve life and extend comfort.... - bejai89...
THE GLORY OF LONG SUFFERING
The Glory of Long Suffering By Brynel Begishe I have learned that darkness does not always conquer by sudden assault. Sometimes it creeps in slowly, when I learn to ignore my own inner shadows.... - bejai89...
~YOU ARE YOUR LAST HOPE~
Every system eventually fails you. The institution closes its doors, the preacher falls from grace, the doctrine crumbles under the weight of lived reality. The prosperity promise goes unfulfilled. The fear wears thin. The outrage finds a new target.... - bejai89...
Beyond the Third-Person Gospel: Articulated Metacognition, the Crucible, and the Weight of Lived Faith By Brynel Begishe Abstract & Introduction Abstract Modern religious discourse, particularly within digital media and institutional frameworks, frequently suffers from a... - Doug Kirk...
I’m a non-denominational pastor and I just don’t get it, please take away tradition and pageantry so an old country preacher can understand, how man can dictate the intensity of any sin perpetrated against God ?... Read the full post - Serpardum...
Elohim is the name of the trinity. El - God the father/the Demiurge, O - the holy spirit/Sophia, and Him - Christ. They always work as a team. The three who are one in purpose and design. El created the soul, Christ designed the body.... We need to recover the idea of the Soul from its destruction at the hands of modern metaphysics and its distortion in traditional Christianity.
Modernity dismantled the notion of the soul. It took the human being apart to see how we work and said "well, there's no part labelled soul in here, so I guess that's not a thing." But we actually implicitly live as if there were such a thing as a soul.... i think (1) is still really paradoxical and interesting: God put us in charge, so what's our duty? I personally think dominion should come with obligations of taking care of things in a way I end up in the same place with both 1 and... Read the full post- onWe need to recover the idea of the Soul from its destruction at the hands of modern metaphysics and its distortion in traditional Christianity.by
"In my Christian upbringing, I was taught that I AM a soul, not that I possess one. In this scheme, my Soul is fatally marked with Sin, incapable of pleasing God, and must be redeemed." You would know better than me, but: People might have said "You are a soul", but I don't... - Soulchef22...
I do a little side hustling with Uber and had a Bob Jones Student in the car the other day. Biblical studies major who basically confirmed the below in as much that practicing the teaching of Christ is secondary to just having faith in his death, salvation and resurrection.... - John r Blake...
The Purpose of human life is 2 fold. We r created to 1) Love God by faith in Him. And 2) be loved by God.
- onrencently i've been playing with referencing Quakers in my mind whenever someone says "Christian"byJohn r Blake...
Perhaps a Unified Church is THE second coming of Jesus??