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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 ReadingBelow is a summary from Claude.ai of the essay recommended by Charles Bledsoe in a BSA post. See the PDF version of the web page in the Process Theology directory in Dropbox. Christian Process Theology: An Introduction by Jay McDaniel Note from the original file: The essay below is an epilogue to my book What is […]
Continue ReadingAll sorts of people are fond of repeating the Christian statement that ‘God is love’. But they seem not to notice that the words ‘God is love’ have no real meaning unless God contains at least two Persons. Love is something that one person has for another person. If God was a single person, then […]
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 ReadingNOTE – For a non-theological explanation and analogies of the Flatlander concept, go to https://davisinterests.com/ and click on pages under the top-line menu item “Flatlanders”. From ChatGPT on 12/4/2025. Here’s a one-sentence summary of this post: Critical scholars use the Flatlander analogy to show that biblical texts reveal only partial “slices” of God’s higher-dimensional reality—like […]
Continue ReadingBelow is ChatGPT’s summary of Charles Bledsoe’s original post at BSA here. Here’s a summary of Charles Bledsoe’s Original Post: The Dangers and Contradictions of Demon and Devil-Belief. Bledsoe argues that belief in the literal existence of the devil and demons—what he terms diabolism—is more dangerous than disbelief. He contends that such belief fosters fear, […]
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 ReadingCharles Bledsoe, OP’s title – Atonement or Forgiveness, How About Neither? at BSA here.OP – Charles Bledsoe, Oct 9, 2025 Scroll to the bottom for Bledsoe’s simplified version of the “intricacies of Whitehead’s philosophical system”. Charles Bledsoe – I was just reading a post by Manny5 titled Atonement or Forgiveness, and it provoked a critical […]
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 ReadingPrompt to ChatGPT on 11/8/2025 – Who are the most respected critical bible scholars who have studied and written about Alfred North Whitehead? Provide links to the work. Short answer: There are very few scholars whose primary field is critical biblical studies who have written sustained, specialist work about Alfred North Whitehead. Most of the […]
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