The Christ Myth
There is an aversion in our society to the word “myth” because we believe this means a story is untrue. That is not at all the case. Myths, from Ancient Greece such as the “Iliad” and “Odyssey” of Homer, to the modern ”Star …
There is an aversion in our society to the word “myth” because we believe this means a story is untrue. That is not at all the case. Myths, from Ancient Greece such as the “Iliad” and “Odyssey” of Homer, to the modern ”Star …
When I was in college, I took a class in which I studied different religions as well as atheism and agnosticism. This class had a profound affect on my spiritual path, as I was absorbed in the writings and theories of Immanuel Kant, John …
I have recently come across a very entertaining website entitled “God Is Imaginary.” The author is quite engaging and intellectually brilliant in his arguments for atheism and the absurdity of traditional notions of God, the afterlife, Biblical scripture, spiritual realms, …
Last time, during our exploration on death, we discovered there is no such thing as a “self essence” or an indivdual “eternal soul” that lives on forevermore after physical death since essence is of the One, not the many. For since there is truly …
And now we come to the great question… a topic so thoroughly contemplated and pondered throughout the ages in all cultures and within all walks of life… the subject of death. What is death? So many of us contemplate whether or …
What is faith? The Apostle Paul says, in Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” The more I read Paul, the more I hear him resemble the …
In our last exploration, we discovered the fact humanity’s pattern of living under fear, ego results in all the miseries of human life, including living under the “law” of reward and punishment, corruption, betrayal, insecurity, anger, drive-by shootings, poverty, the entire …
Virtually all human experience exists within the ego, the father of fear, and it is upon this foundation of sand we attempt to build a life which inevitably brings frustration and conflict. The reason for this is because the ego is the self, or …
Well, I heard another doosey of a semon this morning, which got my writing wheels turning once again. The subject matter actually comes at a very timely moment after looking into the whole question of how the gospel writers and …
While listening to a Christian radio station yesterday, I heard the pastor quote the famous passage from John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but …