“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”– Christopher Hitchens “The theory that religion is a force for peace, does not fit the fact of its history.”– Steven Pinker “I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be ...
It lies in the world that hasn’t been created. That’s the key to understanding it. The change that God undergoes from being without a universe to being with the universe is not a change in God. It is a change in the potential for a universe. It’s a change in us and our world...
The Takeaway: If I really believe that God is in control and sovereignly, perfectly at work in this world, then I’ll slow down to His pace, learn to rest (which means “learning to trust Him and His ways”), and focus my energies on being with Him, rather than pouring all my ene...
underlying the phenomenal universe, whether this something be the “Unknown”, or the “Absolute“, or the “Unconscious”, or “Matter” itself, or the “Ego”, or the “Idea” of being, or the “Will“; these are so many substitutes for the uncaused cause or self-existent being of ...
Unity, therefore, precedes the number one. Two gods would thus postulate before the number one the existence of unity. In all these demonstrations Baḥya follows the evidential argumentations of the Arabic schoolmen, the Motekallamin. In reference to God's attributes, Baḥya is of those ...
You say that the Supreme Self is intelligence itself, he continues, so how can It produce the world without some motive that serves Its purpose, in which case It cannot be completely self-fulfilled (paritṛpta) as the Perfect Being should be. Therefore, either Brahman, namely, the Supreme...
For Agamben, “the familiarity, the oikeiosis of the living being with itself is dissolved without remainder into its self-perception, and this latter coincides in turn with the capacity of the living being to use its own body parts and its own constitution” [4] (p. 1075). Thus, oik...
When the name Adonai itself precedes, to avoid repetition of this name, Yhwh is written by the Masorites with the vowels of Elohim, in which case Elohim is read instead of Yhwh. In consequence of this Masoretic reading the authorized and revised English versions (though not the American ...
...while we wait for the blessed hope - the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,... - Titus 2:13
life. The parable of the Prodigal Son is a clear expression of God’s initiative that precedes us and summons us.So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed...