Impersonal Force v Personal God The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen? – CS Lewis, Mere Christianity The Universe …
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Which love story will you live by? Russian literature, Adlerian Psychology and the Gospel 1. Forgiveness, sacrifice and acceptance 2. Enduring contentment and identity 3. Meaning to suffering and a way forward The honeymoon always ends. The bloom of romance always fades.. at this point they begin.. to initiate the work of real loving. — …
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Jan Verhas Hide and Seek. All images from Wikimedia Commons Humble, loving, believing loyalty vs. propositional head knowledge 1. The hidden is everywhere 2. Sheer speculation- how much evidence is enough? 3. How we come to believe in God is more important than that we “know” He exists Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://streettheologian.substack.com/ “Not enough …
Brueghel the Elder- Dutch Proverbs Attention shapes everything By paying a certain kind of attention, you can humanise or dehumanise, cherish or strip of all value. Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. Attention changes the world. How you attend to it changes what …
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Freud’s tainted thoughts: God is dad Should I take your belief seriously if you inherited it from your parents? 1. Christianity far from being a crutch for the weak or a pure projection of desire, grew and continues to spread during times of intense persecution 2. Saying someone’s faith is discredited because it is from …
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Messiah is Jesus or no one. Take your pick. Christ literally means anointed one or Messiah. Subscribe to our Substack newsletter https://streettheologian.substack.com/ Daniel provides 3 portraits of the Messiah which are different in nature: Free Bible Images 1. An eternal kingdom ushered in during the time of the Roman Empire- Daniel 2 In Daniel 2, Nebuchadnezzar …
Augustine Wikmedia Commons Were the 4 Gospels attributed to anonymous authors until decades after they were written? Subscribe to our Substack https://streettheologian.substack.com/ FAKE NAMES TO ADD AUTHORITY? According to leading sceptic of Christianity, Bart Ehrman, in How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee: The books were written anonymously — the authors …
Rich Man and Lazarus WikiMedia Commons Do you think all religions are wrong on everything? We’ve all heard it before. Christians are arrogant because they think they are right and everyone else is wrong. Do you agree with this? Subscribe to our Substack https://streettheologian.substack.com/ According to Pew Research several years ago, the key world religions ranked as follows: …
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Emmanuel Krescenc Liska- Cain (1885) Deceivers, deceived or speaking the truth? How would you respond to former famous atheist turned deist philosopher Anthony Flew who claimed “The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It’s outstandingly different in quality and quantity.”? Simon Bar Kokbha: Arthur Svyk Simon Bar Kokhba was …
Did Jesus rise from the dead? Your comprehensive Easter 2023 Guide Read More »
The oppressors and the oppressed Today’s history snippets: An 86 year old Turkish man was snatched from his home by religious fanatics forcing him to worship their god, set alight in front of a crowd and pierced with a spear. A 15 year old French slave girl tortured for days, thrown around by a wild …
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