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From the Tabor Circle by Keith P. Myers posted 9/3/2026. Keith said “Not AI. These are excerpts from the book itself that I have edited and arranged so that it makes a nice concise summary of the major topics.” This is rather long because it is my [Keith’s] summary of an entire book. I found […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains Claude.ai’s summary of the BAR article by Ronald Hendle titled Parsing the Divine Name. A PDF copy of it is in his directory in Dropbox. The second response provides scholar’s different inntrepretations of ehyeh ‘ăšer ‘ehyeh. Below that is a Response related to James Tabor followed by one related to Bart Ehrman. […]
Continue ReadingBart Ehrman has a very good series of posts titled “How Can Monotheists Think a Human Could Become God?” that cites cases where in the Hebrew Bible humans are exalted to divine status by YHWH. Below are links to the series of posts, with extracts from his introductions. The posts are extracts from his book How […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai as a follow-up to the post here on 5/31/2026. Yes — the history of Trinitarian theology is essentially a long series of attempts to resolve the tension between God’s unity and the distinction of the three persons, and each attempted resolution tended to err in one direction or another. Here is a comprehensive […]
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 […]
Continue ReadingFrom Claude.ai. The Epicurean Paradox (also called the Problem of Evil) is a logical argument against the existence of an omnipotent, benevolent God, attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341–270 BC). It goes roughly like this: “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but […]
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 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 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 Reading[Nan] Shepherd knew the Bible, including the story of the burning bush, well enough to also know the significance of the words I am. When Moses, as we have already noted, is described in the Book of Exodus encountering a bush that is on fire with divine presence without being consumed, he asks, “What is […]
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