A Virtual File Cabinet for Our Studies of Christian Origins & Hebraic Faith
The post below is from a response to a Jim Palmer Substake post. Tony Osuya – May 5, 2026 God is not a being among beings but Being itself. When we reduce God to an object, even a supreme object, we create an idol. The question ‘Does God exist?’ is flawed because existence is something […]
Continue ReadingThe Existential Impulse – What Replaces God When You Outgrow Religion by Jim Palmer The intro to that long post is: This article serves as a foundational piece in my [Palmer] work on existential health and post-religious spirituality. It outlines the structure I refer to as the “existential impulse,” which sits beneath questions of God, […]
Continue ReadingExtracted from Jim Palmer‘s Facebook Post here. You can’t pin Christianity on Jesus. It’s not his fault. To conflate Christianity with Jesus is to ignore the tragic gap between his life and what was later built in his name. Jesus was not a Christian. He did not found a religion. He did not set out […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains extracts from Newell’s very good book to cite the nine people he sharred to show how their experiences were a Great Search. “Seek and you will find,” says Jesus. This is the promise at the heart of the Great Search today. And it is the hope that inspires the writing of this […]
Continue ReadingExtracts 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, […]
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