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2024-11-01T02:35:57-05:00

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Friends Of God

Last updated on: November 1, 2024 at 2:35 am By Henry Karlson

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God doesn’t want us to be mere servants; we should not think God as being some unreasonable master who makes unreasonable demands of us. What God wants is to be friends with us. In that friendship, we should unite ourselves to God and the divine will, for friends have a special bond which often leads them to seem to be so united, it is as if there were one will between them. To make this clear, before his death, Jesus... Read more

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Relationships and Religion

2024-10-30T02:37:56-05:00

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Eternal Life And The Trinity

Last updated on: October 30, 2024 at 2:37 am By Henry Karlson

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God made us not only to exist on our own, to live our lives and make something of ourselves during them, but to participate in and experience the divine life for ourselves. We will always be creatures that God created; we will never be what God is in our nature, but as we participate in the divine nature, we can be considered to be gods by grace. When we do so, we will come to know the persons of the... Read more

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Trinity

2024-10-28T04:44:38-05:00

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PRS* XXIV Kamala Harris And The Common Good

Last updated on: October 28, 2024 at 4:44 am By Henry Karlson

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I have many concerns about the 2024 presidential election in the United States. I especially have issue with the way many Christians are treating the election. They have lost sight of the purpose of government, which is to promote and protect the common good. They have lost sight of the way Christ denied the devil when the devil tempted Jesus with worldly power, for they find themselves succumbing to that temptation, seeking power, not for the sake of the common... Read more

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Politics and Religion

2024-10-27T02:37:26-05:00

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Works And Grace

Last updated on: October 27, 2024 at 2:37 am By Henry Karlson

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As the Christian faith is often presented as some sort of moralistic legalism, with God looking for any and every reason to damn us for eternity, we lose sight of what Christ was about, that is, the good news that God loves us and desires our salvation. We should not believe God is looking for any and every excuse to condemn us, using whatever extreme legalistic argument to justify our perdition; rather, our faith should have us know God loves... Read more

General Christian

2024-10-25T16:58:07-05:00

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The Value And Limitations Of Dogmatic Propositions

Last updated on: October 25, 2024 at 4:58 pm By Henry Karlson

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Discussing and explaining the Christian faith requires positive declarations, declarations which come out of and use human conventions. While the faith transcends such propositions, and so should not be confused merely with the memorization and declaration of them, we should recognize that such propositions help Christians express what their faith is about and share it with others. That is, there is some value in making them so long as we understand the limitations involved in their declaration. When official propositional... Read more

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Education and Religion

2024-10-23T02:26:04-05:00

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The Righteousness Of James

Last updated on: October 23, 2024 at 2:26 am By Henry Karlson

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Eastern tradition says that James, the brother of the lord, is Jesus’ brother, not by blood, but because he was Joseph’s son from a previous marriage. That is, it suggests Joseph was a widower who had many children of his own before he became Mary’s husband and guardian. It is because he was both a holy man and had experience raising his own children, he was prepared to raise Jesus. This is why when we see James mentioned as one... Read more

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History and Religion

2024-10-23T13:26:41-05:00

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PRS* XXIII We Must Not Normalize Trump

Last updated on: October 23, 2024 at 1:26 pm By Henry Karlson

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I don’t understand how anyone could treat the current presidential election in the United States as normal. I can understand why those who want Donald Trump to win would want us to believe it is normal and do everything to act like it is normal. I can appreciate why those who own some media services and want Trump to win will do all they can to make the public think he is normal, hiding all the that he does which... Read more

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Politics and Religion

2024-10-20T02:12:45-05:00

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Legalism, Liturgy, And Paul: Being Open To Grace

Last updated on: October 20, 2024 at 2:12 am By Henry Karlson

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Often, we find many of our fellow Christians looking down upon us with disdain due to the fact that we do not follow their expectations of us, expectations which are not based upon basic Christian morality, such as the way of love, but rather due to some obscure preferences they have which they want everyone else to not only embrace, but follow in a legalistic fashion. This often happens in liturgical debate; we find in them that there are many... Read more

General Christian

2024-10-18T17:20:00-05:00

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Christianity And The Dignity Of Women

Last updated on: October 18, 2024 at 5:20 pm By Henry Karlson

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Christianity teaches the dignity of every human being. Everyone is made in the image and likeness of God. Historically, this has led Christians to promote the poor, the oppressed, social outcasts, indeed, those whose dignity have been unjustly trampled upon by society. This is why, in the earliest era of Christian history, we can see Christianity promoting a revolutionary understanding of women, one which gave them power and authority that had been denied them by society. Christianity made it clear... Read more

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Women in Religion

History and Religion

2024-10-17T02:29:10-05:00

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No Salvation Outside Of The Catholic Church?

Last updated on: October 17, 2024 at 2:29 am By Henry Karlson

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There are many doctrinal and dogmatic statements made by the church which., while true, they are true only when the meaning of those statements are properly understood. If the original intent is ignored, and the words are engaged in a literal fashion, according to other meanings of those words other than originally understood by the authors of such statements, those same statements can lead people to believing something which is false, indeed, heretical. For all dogmatic statements, all doctrinal statements,... Read more

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