Religious Thought for the 21st Century

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.                             I Thessalonians 4: 15 I believe that the Bible is a book inspired by God: the very Word of God. Traditional thinking from the early Christian forefathers says that this means that the contents of the Bible are free of theological errors. But is every single sentence of its contents free of errors, especially theological errors? Since the Enlightenment, people moved to break any ideas that represented a control of people’s right to think and reason; the challenge to the validity of the infallibility of the Bible began in high scale. The response from many circles have been primarily to cite what top level leaders of the Christian traditions have said and to cite the Bible itself. According to the rules of logic, none ...

      Through a Republican lens the immediate race to the streets to cry "Not My President", and the calls for the impeachment of Trump are nothing but the response of immature individuals.  Though the call for the impeachment of Donald Trump has been frequent, incessant and immediate, we must not forget that the most active opponents of Obama recurred to the same cries several times during his presidency. We might have forgotten so let me remind you, since sometimes is hard to take a good look at our own selves.  In fact, under Obama a number of Republican congressmen sought to impeach the President. The rationales ranged from the allegation that he was not born in the United States, failure to enforce immigration laws (despite the fact that during this presidency a record-number of people were deported), going on to a possible cover-up after the 2012 Benghazi attack. None of these proposals made it into the Judiciary Committee. The very firs...

Jordan Feliz Beloved The beautiful and touching song by Jordan Feliz Beloved fills one with the vision of a love of God that is real and beyond any boundary our imagination, including theological presuppositions, may impose. We are essential not accidental. Christian theology, however,sees us humans not as being true children of God, at least not to the same degree that Jesus was. It says that God created us out of pity. Lol, please forgive me for using that old acronym. Others simply affirm that God did not create us because he needed us, so does gotquestions.org, which moves on to add other irrational affirmations as theology.  I just don't know what to say to those believes. I will go into more detail in another post. In this one I just simply state that no parent of love has children out of pity. Far from it.  In this post, I placed Feliz's song above because his song conveys a sense of a profound and real relationship with God. Recently, I had an i...

The Meaning of Trees and Fruits  in Hebrew Scripture I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. -From "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer    The Hebrews and Christian scriptures contain a wealth of literary symbols authors from different ages utilize as they intend to convey a hidden religious message.  Before entering into our discussion it is good to note that the religious and philosophical meaning of trees as a source of life, knowledge, rebirth, immortality and even love have roots throughout the world. Closer to the Jewish culture, ancient Egyptians believed Isis and Osiris to have came out of an acacia tree.   Trees and fruits play an important position on the biblical imagery from Genesis to Revelations. From the first chapter of Genesis throughout all different types of literary and religious genres these two symbols convey messages from prophetic and moral, curses and blessings, and poetry to parables.  Their appearanc...