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What religion was Abraham?
What religion was Abraham? After all, he is claimed as the father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Two of those religions took one path to get from Abraham to their religions that exist today. However, the other one took a different path to get from the man who used to ...
Intro to Sura 68 – The Pen. God’s promises to Abraham, revisited.
Among other things, Sura 68 is a response to Muhammad's sense / fear that his first revelation was from a Jinn (an evil spirit). It confirms to him that he is not crazy or hallucinating. This second Sura, in order of revelation, is quite long. Other topics in Sura ...
Abraham, Paul & God. A look at faith. A process, not an instant happening.
A look at Abraham, Paul, and God
All of us do some pretty unbelieving things, both before and after we accept Jesus. God knows that we are weak and will need His strength. With the strength of God – we can walk with Him, albeit not right away and not perfectly. Because Jesus died for our sins, ...
God responds to our complaint about His response to our question
So far in this series, we've seen Habakkuk ask God a question. God responds. He actually got an answer from God. But then he didn't seem to like the answer. So now what? Will God strike Habakkuk dead? Will He answer yet again? Or will God maybe turn away in ...
What is faith? Blind? Circular logic? Or the truth?
The problem with faith - to believe or not to believe
What is faith? In this specific case, what is Christian faith? People have lots of ideas about that. Some think faith is blind. Others may think the reasoning behind Christian faith is circular logic. Others believe Christian faith is the truth ...
Are we the good Samaritan? Or the robber?
We are one or the other
Are we the good Samaritan? Or the robber? We are all one or the other. There’s no saying that we’ve never been in the scenario Jesus painted. Because we’re in. Right now. Every. Single. one. of. us. Everyone! ...
Why do rich people give money away?
Why do rich people give money away? No, they don't all do that. But some do. And they get cheered for it. But do you ever wonder, why do they give it away? And should we be cheering? ...
How come so many Christians don’t really know God?
It seems like a weird, even dumb, question. How come so many Christians don’t really know God? It's a very important question with a very disturbing answer. It's all too easy for Christians to not know God! The headline shocked me. 51% of Churchgoers Don’t Know of the Great Commission, ...
Why Westerners don’t understand the Iran – Israel conflict
It's about strong religious beliefs
I heard someone on the news talking about the "decades old conflict between Iran and Israel". The current conflict between Israel and Iran may be only decades old, but the conflict between Islam and Judaism has been going on almost since Muhammad's visions. But lukewarm Westerners don't understand the Iran ...
Who wrote Genesis? Why it matters what you think.
Wasn't it Moses?
Who wrote Genesis? Does it really matter who wrote Genesis? If you're not Jewish or Christian, maybe not to you. But if you are, it matters a whole lot ...
