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The Myth of Original Sin
The doctrine of original sin says that as a result of Adam’s sin all of Adam’s posterity besides Jesus are born with a “sinful nature,” whereby they are physically unable to do anything but sin; they...
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Why Did Adam and Eve Sin?
According to the Book of Genesis, after God created the first human beings, Adam and then Eve, he issued a specific command that they should not eat from “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil”...
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The God of the Flood
Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and he...
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God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob; Not of the Philosophers and...
According to so-called “classical theism,” God is wholly immutable, or unchanging. Not only can he never change in character, or nature; he cannot change in any respect whatsoever. He does not have...
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Israel’s Kings as Messiahs or Christs
In a previous post, I pointed out that in the Hebrew Old Testament Scriptures Israel’s kings are spoken of as God’s anointed ones. In the Hebrew texts the word for “anointed one” is mashiach (משיח),...
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Andrews Norton on Christianity
Below is what I regard a most apt description of what has happened to the doctrines of the Christian religion as taught by Jesus and those whom he designated his apostles. It comes from the unitarian...
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Thomas Jefferson on Jesus vs. Calvin
The following is an excerpt of a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, written June 26, 1822. In the excerpt, Jefferson contrasts the “simple” teachings of Jesus, which “tend all to the...
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How Did I Get Here?
Recently, an old friend of mine, upon reading some of what I have written on this site, expressed his concern that some of the things I have written are a “departure from orthodoxy.” He asked what...
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The Ultimate “Theology Hack”
The dictionary defines a “life hack” as “a strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one’s time and daily activities in a more efficient way.” Here’s an example of one such “life hack” (I found...
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