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Extracts from “Process Theology and the Bible: How Science Has Changed Our View of God” by John B. Cobb, Jr., on 1/18/2026. Below the extracts are two ChatGPT responses with the first being a summary of his very good article. He provides a good overview of Process Theology applied to life; IMHO.
Continue ReadingFrom ChatGPT on 12/4/2025. How did Marcus Borg use the flatlander analogy to talk about God? Short Answer – He did not. I found no direct evidence that Marcus J. Borg ever explicitly invoked the classic “Flatland/Flatlander” analogy (2‑D beings perceiving a 3‑D reality) in his published works or known lectures. What I can show […]
Continue ReadingAbout God – What happened to YHWH? The God of Jesus, YHWH, is not the God the Christian church worships. The Christian Church did not follow Jesus as they do not call the divinity YHWH, and added Jesus and the Holy Spirit, creating the Trinity. The author of the Gospel of John surely is frustrated […]
Continue ReadingThis is a follow-up post to the one immediately before this one here. That post was becoming too long and this one “chases a specific rabbit.” Scroll down for a related prompt: Which scholar said something like “Scholars emphasize that in antiquity, “faith” did not mean “believing ideas in your mind.” It meant embodied loyalty.” […]
Continue Reading11/21/2025 – In the BSA General discussion forum, Bobby Lane began a conversation titled I’ve misunderstood faith, literally. Many interesting comments ensued, pointing out differences between the ancient Hebrew understanding of faith, the early Christian view, and the contemporary Protestant view. I asked ChatGPT and Claude.ai about differences and how they evolved using the same […]
Continue ReadingBelow are Charles Bledsoe’s original post and significant responses at BSA to his post titled The Historical and Theological Problem of a Killer God, Oct 20, 2025. As touched on by Dr. Baden in a recent lecture, the simple historical solution to the problem of the biblical God commanding mass slaughter is that the herems, […]
Continue ReadingThis post resulted from a post in BSA/Nerds that mentioned the author, Charles Bledsoe, believed in a “theism without supernaturalism. That idea intrigued me, and I commented that the concept would make a great thread/conversation. So, he started one, and that post is pasted below as the last part of this post. His perception of […]
Continue ReadingValid Point by Marcus Borg: The documents that now make up the Bible were not sacred when they were written, but over time were declared to be sacred by ancient Israel and early Christianity. The process took about five centuries for the Hebrew Bible and about three centuries for the Christian Testament. From Chat GPT […]
Continue ReadingDoes the Cruelty and Evil in the World Really Refute the Idea that God Is Perfect Love? Original post by Charles Bledsoe on October 11, 2025. Another member recently expressed her difficulty with believing that God is love in view of all of the “calamity” in the world. That provoked the following reflections and response […]
Continue ReadingThe Evolution of the Idea of God in the Bible—The Evolution of a Relationship With an Imaginary Friend, or an Actually-Existing God? by Charles Bledsoe. Posted at BSA on Oct 17, 2025. [Below is his post for which he is the author and it is posted here for my personal reference only.] From my theological […]
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