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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 ReadingFrom ChatGPT, 11/19/2025. The line you’re looking for is a genuine Latin statement from Augustine, and the most accurate form is: “Si comprehendis, non est Deus.”Translation: “If you understand it, it is not God.” Where Augustine says it:He expresses this idea in several places, most directly in Sermon 117.5, where he insists that any concept […]
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 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 […]
Continue ReadingThe Evolution of the Idea of God in the Bible—The Evolution of a Relationship With an Imaginary Friend, or an Actually-Existing God? by Charles Bledsoe. Posted at BSA on Oct 17, 2025. [Below is his post for which he is the author and it is posted here for my personal reference only.] From my theological […]
Continue ReadingBelow is a response to the “conversation” or thread at BSA titled Atonement or Forgiveness, How About Neither? that began on October 9, 2025. The post begins with an interesting position by Charles Bledsoe, and comments by Michael Waddel and others are interesting. One of Schaun Wheeler’s responses is below. I like this, but I […]
Continue ReadingHovav the Midianite: Why Was the End of the Story Cut? The Midianite Origin of YHWH and Aniconism The extract below is from the great article by Prof. Israel Knohl at TheTorah.com. YHWH from the South A number of biblical traditions describe YHWH’s emergence from the south, either the southern Transjordan, the Sinai wilderness, or both. […]
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