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Free Will ~

Posted in God, encouragement, individuality, mysticism, path, spirituality, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Do we have free will? Well, I personally believe so. We have mapped the human genome, and they don’t seem to have found a gene for free will, but, there are many things that point to the idea that each of us, in spite or because of our genetic make up, can make choices as [...]

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Politics and Spirituality ~

Posted in God, politics, spirituality, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The minute McCain chose an unknown from Alaska (and attendant at an Assemblies of Oh My God church), I began watching the political scene with fear and trepidation. You see, that was the denomination I had followed when I was functioning as a fundie. This woman is beautiful, and quite comfortable in front of cameras, [...]

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Love or Fear, the choice of how to live ~

Posted in spirituality, tagged , , , , , , , on September 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I have said before that I spent a while in fundamentalist country before finding my way out to a gentler, quieter stream in the river of life. The preachers in the more fundamentalist style of the faith often seem to act as though they are competing with the evening news, or worse, “Everybody loves Raymond” [...]

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Calvin or Arminius ~

Posted in God, Y'shua, compassion, spirituality, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I was certain I had written a post about these two influential theologians before, but it is apparently one I was unhappy with, and discarded. Calvin’s world was a world where God predetermined all that happened, even those things we perceive as evil come from God as part of an eternal plan. With Calvin, the [...]

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