Category: Personal
My Thoughts & Others about God & the Bible
About 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 ReadingMarcus Borg’s Quotes
Simply and compactly, “panentheism” means “everything is in God.” The universe—everything that is—is in God, even as God is “more” than the universe. Borg, Marcus J.. Days of Awe and Wonder: How to Be a Christian in the Twenty-first Century (p. 38). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. Borg, Marcus J.. The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic […]
Continue ReadingMarcus Borg: Good Text & Videos
My vocational passion is adult theological re-education at the congregational level. I think it’s vital in our time… I’ve often thought Jesus was fortunate to have been executed before the gospels were written can you imagine if those manuscripts were already out there and he came into a small town and told them the parable […]
Continue Reading“What is God” From Marcus Borg
From his book The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authentic Contemporary Faith. Below those extracts is one of his videos and the transcription. The transcendence of God refers to God’s “going beyond” the universe, God’s otherness, God as more than the universe. God’s immanence, on the other hand, means God’s […]
Continue ReadingDoes Cruelty & Evil Really Refute the Idea that God Is Perfect Love?
Does 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 ReadingEternal life – why?
This page contains the significant statements by members of SBA to the post Eternal life – why? The conversation has many good insights about an “afterlife”. Sandra Snook – Opening Post I’ve pondered a lot about what seems to be a very human goal, and often the primary goal of being a Christian, attaining eternal […]
Continue ReadingPerformative Christianity
From ChatGPT on 5/24/2025. Performative Christianity (or more broadly, performative religiosity) refers to the outward display of religious behavior or expression that is primarily motivated by the desire to be seen, affirmed, or socially rewarded—rather than by sincere belief, spiritual conviction, or obedience to God. 1. Definition & Origin 2. Biblical Foundation for the Concept […]
Continue ReadingFrom BSA – Some Radical Christological Thoughts for Easter
Some Radical Christological Thoughts for Easter: A Re-enchantment of Jesus Without Supernaturalism, and a Naturalistic Conception of the Reality of the Resurrection Charles Bledsoe, Super Apostle, Apr 17, 2025Please bear with me while I preface my thoughts about the meaning and resurrection of Jesus with an opening philosophical excursus. Repurposing two terms from the philosophy […]
Continue ReadingFrom BSA – Critical Reflections on the Easter Faith of Literalistic Believers
From BSA Here. Below is a thread with great insights from Charles Bledsoe, Mike Waddell, and others. OP – Some Critical Reflections on the Easter Faith of Literalistic Believers by Charles Bledsoe, Apr 13, 2025 Michael Waddell has written a thought-provoking post on the discrepancies between the accounts of the Resurrection of Paul and of […]
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