[This 3-part series about the ‘Old Testament God’ was first posted in August 2012, These posts are worth revisiting since the message is still and ever will be relevant, particularly to those with open minds, with eyes ready to see and ears willing to hear a different ‘truth’ from what they’ve heard before. For the strongly […]
[This 3-part series about the ‘Old Testament God’ was first posted in August 2012, These posts are worth revisiting since the message is still and ever will be relevant, particularly to those with open minds, with eyes ready to see and ears willing to hear a different ‘truth’ from what they’ve heard before. For the strongly […]
Read more[First posted in 2014, this article is the most frequently clicked of our over 1000+ reading list. It is the last in the series from the book authored by Robert Schoen. Earlier posts include: Must Read: Robert Schoen – 5 – Jews, Jesus, and Christianity/Judaism Must Read: Robert Schoen – 4 – Going to Church: […]
Read more[This is a revisit; first posted 2012; part of a series from No Religion is an Island by Abraham Joshua Heschel (AJH). Related posts are: Revisit: No Religion is an Island – Abraham Joshua Heschel Revisit: No Religion is an Island – 2 – “To equate religion and God is idolatry” – AJHeschel Our most recent acquisition […]
Read more[First posted 2015. The “new”covenant claimed by Christianity as God’s covenant with the Church is found nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures, even as Jeremiah 31:30-33 is cited as the ‘Old Testament’ prooftext. When you read those verses carefully and closely, you will discover that the same parties that cut a covenant at Sinai are named as […]
Read more[First posted in 2012. Has God ever described Himself ? Would not the Source of LIGHT and spiritual illumination, the Creator, reveal what He is like and what is His will for the only creature made in “our image” and “likeness”? He has done so to the custodians of His revelation, whose scriptures are used as prequel […]
Read more[First posted 2015. The “new”covenant claimed by Christianity as God’s covenant with the Church is found nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures, even as Jeremiah 31:30-33 is cited as the ‘Old Testament’ prooftext. When you read those verses carefully and closely, you will discover that the same parties that cut a covenant at Sinai are named as […]
Read more[This is a revisit; first posted 2012; part of a series from No Religion is an Island by Abraham Joshua Heschel (AJH). Related posts are: Revisit: No Religion is an Island – Abraham Joshua Heschel Revisit: No Religion is an Island – 2 – “To equate religion and God is idolatry” – AJHeschel Our most recent acquisition […]
Read more[First posted in 2015 on the occasion of the visit of ‘Rockstar’ Pope Francis to the Philippines. Here is the original introduction: During the visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines, a ‘sea of humanity’ —as media practitioners term the nonstop-overwhelming-welcome and send-off—was phenomenal. Those of us on the sidelines (the non-Catholic flock) watched the […]
Read more[First posted 2012. “AJH”— Abraham Joshua Heschel—as you must have already noticed from the frequency we feature his writings—is a favorite resource person of ours, whose words we quoted in our Statement of Faith. That quote is the opening of his essay, the title of which is the title of this article. Being a […]
Read more[ First posted in 2015. Is there a difference between the terms ‘God’ and ‘Lord’? The English generic term for deity is simply ‘god’ so there’s no confusion as to what it refers to, but ‘lord’ is not necessarily applied only to deity but also to human masters or lords (British Parliament is full of […]
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