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From Jim Palmer’s Facebook channel on 7/31/2026. Jim Palmer I find it curious that nearly every creed of the Church, whether the early ecumenical creeds, the Roman Catholic catechisms, or the countless Protestant statements of faith, is primarily concerned with defining theological propositions about Jesus. They tell us what to believe concerning his nature, his […]
Continue ReadingBy Jim Palmer Before the extracts from his very good article, here is a clip from his article, The Bible After God: A Post-Religion Guide for Understanding the Bible “…theology isn’t the free search for truth, as much as a defense of an already held position. A lot of theological reasoning is circular, inevitably “proving” […]
Continue ReadingThe 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 […]
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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 ReadingSimply 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 ReadingMy 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 ReadingFrom 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 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 […]
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