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How Losing My Daughters Changed What I Believe About God and the Bible
What is it about tragedy that changes people? Is it the initial shock? The searing pain that feels like a raging fire in the soul? The tears that line our cheeks and stick to the skin of our faces? The unstoppable convergence of every dark human emotion in a single moment and then the attenuation…
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Does Everything Happen For a Reason?
Since when does a God who controls everything ask any questions, let alone a question as loaded and stuffed with feeling as “Why?” #longread
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Does God Need Us to Know Jesus to Save Us?
If you are a Christian or know someone who is then you are familiar with the teaching that the only way to be saved is through Jesus Christ and that because Christianity is born out of the teachings of Jesus, salvation can only come if you are baptized into the Christian faith. More specifically, the…
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On Faith and Flexibility
This is a follow-up to my last post, Worthy from the Start. Given that I have more or less disclosed my view that I no longer believe we are each born into a state of sin, I think it is important for me to pick up where I left off in my earlier post, Deconstruction…
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Worthy From the Start
Those were the words I read as glanced at the title of the second chapter in Kent Dobson’s book, Bitten by a Camel. Seven simple words that I had never heard said to me in all my years of living on this planet. Not knowing what to expect, my first thought was, I’m not?