Tag: Truth
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Will Jesus Return?
I’m content for you to think so – and for me to think not. To me, Jesus lived and died over 2,000 years ago, a charismatic, compassionate, deeply insightful Palestinian Jew, crucified as a potential disturber of the ‘Pax Romana’. Pursuing disagreement between us about a literal ‘second coming’, I’d regard as being ‘beside the…
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A Down-to-Earth look at God (i)
Following on from my previous post, I’m continuing to give thought to what can be said about God, reasonably, meaningfully, and believably. Most of us might agree with the proposition that ‘believing in’ God has more to do with faith than knowledge. There’s a difficulty, however, in that different people have different ideas about what…
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My Religious Paradigm (3) The final truth?
In this series, I’m asking myself, a former preacher, what my current religious ‘paradigm’ is, meaning, what do I think, and feel, I can reasonably and credibly believe? So far, I’ve argued that the existence of an infinite and eternal God, by definition, ought not to be presented as a ‘fact’, but simply a ‘belief’,…
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Religion and Science
Religion and Science need not be seen as opponents. This is especially so if some of the language they use is recognised as being figurative rather than literal. Religious people can only paint ‘pictures’ of their conception and experience of an unseen and indescribable divine realm. Scientists, in exploring the unseen and indescribable sub-atomic realm,…
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