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I started reviewing the Koran.  I do not know how healthy this is to do, but I am curious.  I started with “The Opening”, which is the first chapter of the Koran, and it certainly pays respect to God.  However, the aspects of God that pays attention to are different than what I normally focus.  Basically, God is the master of judgement, and I am to pray that I not go astray, but that I be someone to whom God will show favor… but with no feel for who those people are that receive such favor.  God appears harsh in those short verses, which He is in some ways, but for His grace.  The Opening does not mention grace per …

I got one of those emails yesterday that my fellow Christians send out around blindly, without checking it out.  It said that in the Koran 9:11 is a prophecy of the U.S. being awakened against Islam.  I had never looked up anything in the Koran before, so I googled, and found a website with the Koran online.  Well, not only was it not a verse, there is no verse like it anywhere in the Koran.

I hate receiving those kinds of emails, but it seems that my fellow Christians can often be the most ignorant.  I find that many non-believers are more informed about Christianity! It’s disheartening.

Well, one I had the Koran in front of me, it dawned me …

In “Beyond the Firmament” (Review) - Genesis is Literal, I write about an interesting phenomenon.  It would seem that Moses — some would dispute whether it’s Moses, but that’s beside the point for now — wrote what he thought was a historically accurate account of Creation.  We now know that he was wrong — it was not historically accurate.  However, as GJG of BTF points out, when we put on our Moses hat, and try to view the world as the ancient Hebrews did, we realize that what Moses echoed the account with which they were already familiar, but with the added detail that God is the one who did …

Many Christians like to concentrate on the positive prophecies, the ones of peace and love.  However, not all of them were.  Consider the following one for example.  Psalm 110 reads as follows:

1 The Lord says to my Lord:
“Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool.”

2 The Lord sends forth from Zion
your mighty scepter.
Rule in the midst of your enemies!
3 Your people will offer themselves freely
on the day of your power,
in holy garments;
from the womb of the morning,
the dew of your youth will be yours.
4 The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind,
“You are …

I have posted in the past about the Creation Account in Psalm 104. Recall for a moment verse 29:
 29 When you hide your face,
       they are terrified;
       when you take away their breath,
       they die and return to the dust.
This is either a reference to the animals of the sea, or to all animals, both land and sea alike.  Previously, I interpreted this to cover only sea creatures.  However, for this discussion, either interpretation will do. 

Notice that in this account of creation, the animals return to the dust.  Therefore, it stands to reason that they came from the dust.  However, here’s the thing.  It isn’t the entire population that all returns …

In my previous post, Reflections: What is Life? Choosing to Live in the Light, I developed an analogy for life.  The analogy is that of a common landscape with a shadow cast upon it. We all live on the same landscape, though some is in God’s light, and some is not. 

The features of the landscape are generally the same everywhere you go.  Figuratively speaking, there are mountains, lakes, oceans, even cities, but once you know the rules of one feature, the rules will apply to them all.  Again by analogy, rules might include the physical, like gravity; or the logical, like math.  These rules work the same everywhere, …

When this life has passed, our flesh will be gone.  That part of us that knows God, that can comprehend God despite our flesh, will be all that is left.  And that part will turn out to be the real us.  “For who knows the thoughts of a man, but the spirit of the man that is in him?” (1 Cor. 2:11)  What then does that make our life?

Every person who will go to Heaven (and every person who will not) is forced to have a life of flesh before facing their final destination, whether that destination be Heaven, Hell, or as some Christians think… nothing.  That final destination is determined by or reflected by our choices on this earth.  Every …