Category: theology
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Jesus and the women
This was partially inspired by the yesterday evening discussion of the Jesus Freaks house group that’s praised in the previous blog post. Jesus and sexuality When believing that Jesus was both fully man and fully God, what do we believe about if he suffered temptations to sexual sin as we do? As Jesus was fully […]
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Ode to God and the Freaks
There are times where it’s sooo obvious that this world was originally created by a good God! I’m in such a time these very days, feeling very blessed and grateful … or, more concretely: There’s a really really cool Jesus Freaks congregation in my town, hey, and I’m becoming part of it 😉 My vision […]
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Ideas for Project 10^100: Natural Scientific Theology
After the psycho hygiene system, here’s another idea that I posted to Google’s Project 10100. They collect ideas and will honor the idea that will help the most people. Practically, this means that the five best ideas are sponsored with 2 million USD on average, to be executed. It deals with settling a question that […]
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Tree of Knowledge was Grapefruit or something
How about an experimentaltrack of thought today; that is, I don’t claim it to be true, but thinking this line of thought might inspire some other insights. The thoughts are about “the Fall”, the biblical story when the snake convinced Eve to eat from the forbidden fruit, and she gave Adam, and he ate, too. […]
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Multiple Pentecosts
There is this ever-ongoing discussion about when and how the baptism in the Holy Spirit happens, and / or being filled with the Holy Spirit, etc.. I’m going to present here in short my own model for that, which will probably be integrated in an anthropological model in later articles (brain / spirit discussion). First […]
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Changing church
Ummh … what’s that? How to change a church, about a church in change, a church that changes churchgoers, or all three? I dunno yet, but at the end of this article both of us will 😉 Imagine a little church of 10-20 people, with a culture of intensive mutual education: cheering each other up, […]
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Lowering the bar for true miracles
On what Hume destroyed The modern secular approach to miracles is deeply influenced by the writings of David Hume. He hold the opinion that, in order to accept something as true, one has to acquire full confidence of it, and thought about the conditions that need to be in place for that [Hume, David: Über […]