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Title |
Author |
Written |
Posted |
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1 |
Preface and Beginnings (John’s Credo: At Some Level, We Are God) |
John |
03/30/01 |
03/12/07 |
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2 |
Free Will (Sin Versus Faith) |
Steve |
04/02/01 |
03/14/07 |
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3 |
Fourteen Questions for Discussion |
Bob (w/ John) |
04/10/01 |
03/14/07 |
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4 |
My Christianity: A Relationship, Not a Religion |
Steve |
04/1?/01 |
03/15/07 |
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5 |
Yes, Many Paths, But… |
John |
04/17/01 |
03/15/07 |
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6 |
Seeking God, How? |
Steve |
04/18/01 |
03/15/07 |
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7 |
Guilty of Sin, But Pardon Available |
Steve |
04/17/01 |
03/15/07 |
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8 |
Some Essential Differences in Perspective |
Bob |
04/18/01 |
03/15/07 |
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9 |
Guilt No, Creativity Yes |
John |
04/19/01 |
03/16/07 |
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10 |
If I Am to Worship, I Need to Perceive That God
Is Good |
Bob |
04/19/01 |
03/17/07 |
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11 |
Heaven: A
Path to “There” |
Steve |
04/??/01 |
03/18/07 |
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12 |
The Traditional Christian Message Does Not
Reflect a God Who Is “Good” |
Bob |
04/20/01 |
03/20/07 |
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13 |
Where God Meets Us: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs |
Steve |
04/23/01 |
03/20/07 |
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14 |
The Baggage of Christianity, and Another Crazy
Analogy |
John |
04/23/01 |
03/20/07 |
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15 |
Thoughts About Jesus |
Bob |
04/23/01 |
03/21/07 |
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16 |
Are We Living as a Reflection of God’s Character? |
Steve |
04/24/01 |
03/21/07 |
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17 |
A Guide to God for Our Children |
Steve |
04/??/01 |
03/21/07 |
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18 |
Traditional Christian Theology – A Menacing,
“Make My Day, Punk” View of God? |
Bob |
04/25/01 |
03/22/07 |
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19 |
Was Jesus’ “Sacrifice” Necessary? (I Don’t Need Jesus to be Convinced I Have a
Soul) |
John |
04/25/01 |
03/23/07 |
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20 |
An Abstract God and Sacrifice |
Steve |
04/2?/01 |
03/25/07 |
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21 |
Looking in Other Places: Meditation |
John |
04/30/01 |
03/26/07 |
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22 |
Is There a Downside to an Eclectic View of God? |
Bob |
05/01/01 |
03/26/07 |
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23 |
Who’s on Your Dance Card? |
John |
05/02/01 |
03/26/07 |
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24 |
A Prayer and a Cartoon |
Bob |
05/03/01 |
03/27/07 |
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25 |
An Unoffended Unitarian |
John |
05/07/01 |
03/27/07 |
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26 |
Jesus’ Death Stemmed from Human Free Will Choices
to Kill Him |
Bob |
05/03/01 |
03/27/07 |
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27 |
Sacrifice and Resurrection |
John |
05/07/01 |
03/27/07 |
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28 |
Gandhi’s View on Reaching the Heart of All
Religions |
Bob |
05/07/01 |
03/28/07 |
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29 |
Just a Quick Response |
John |
05/07/01 |
03/28/07 |
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30 |
Ways in Which God May “Need” and “Learn” from
Mere Humans |
Bob |
05/07/01 |
03/28/07 |
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31 |
Belief and Truth: Not the Same |
Steve |
05/0?/01 |
03/31/07 |
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32 |
Voices of Authority |
John |
05/09/01 |
03/31/07 |
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33 |
Salvation and Afterlife |
Bob |
05/10/01 |
04/01/07 |
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34 |
Discerning the Truth |
Steve |
05/1?/01 |
04/01/07 |
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35 |
Man in the Image of God; and Some Very Personal
Stories |
John |
05/11/01 |
04/01/07 |
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36 |
Part One: Characteristics of God (and Man) |
Steve |
05/14/01 |
04/01/07 |
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37 |
Karma, Gender, Good Works, Identity, Sin, Straw
Men, and Other Little Things |
John |
05/14/01 |
04/02/07 |
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38 |
Works and Grace: A Short Retort |
Steve |
05/15/01 |
04/03/07 |
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39 |
A God Alone Who Wishes Us To Be |
Bob |
05/15/01 |
04/03/07 |
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40 |
Preposterous Claims in Luke, or Are They True? |
Steve |
05/15/01 |
04/03/07 |
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41 |
Talking Heads and Questions |
John |
05/16/01 |
04/09/07 |
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42 |
A Short Note: How Good Is Man? |
Steve |
05/16/01 |
04/09/07 |
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43 |
Some Personal Experiences |
Bob |
05/16/01 |
04/09/07 |
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44 |
John the Unbaptist |
John |
05/18/01 |
04/11/07 |
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45 |
Serendipity, Luck, or Purpose in Life’s Events? |
Steve |
05/18/01 |
04/11/07 |
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46 |
Part One: A Passage from Thessalonians, and More
Thoughts on Jesus Part Two: Highlighting the Bible / God, Noah, and the Flood |
Bob Bob |
05/22/01 05/22-23/01 |
04/15/07 |
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47 |
UFO’s, Castaneda, and the Bible |
John |
05/21/01 |
04/15/07 |
|
48 |
Grace = God’s Undeserved Favor |
Steve |
05/23/01 |
04/15/07 |
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49 |
Questions to Steve About Grace |
Bob |
05/24/01 |
04/15/07 |
|
50 |
More on Grace |
Steve |
05/24/01 |
04/15/07 |
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51 |
A Short Note to Steve |
John |
05/24/01 |
04/15/07 |
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52 |
“Help My Unbelief” |
John |
05/2?/01 |
04/16/07 |
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53 |
Grappling with Faith |
Steve |
06/01/01 |
04/16/07 |
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54 |
Fundamentalist and Maverick? |
Steve |
06/06/01 |
04/16/07 |
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55 |
What Some “Christians” Believe |
John |
06/08/01 |
04/17/07 |
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56 |
Other Churchgoers, Gratitude, and Absolute Reference
Points |
Steve |
06/08/01 |
04/17/07 |
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57 |
More on Grace, and Jesus as Both Human and God |
Bob |
06/08/01 |
04/18/07 |
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58 |
Questions for Steve, and a Guide for Meditating |
John |
06/12/01 |
04/20/07 |
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59 |
Skepticism, Faith, and Meditation |
Steve |
06/13/01 |
04/20/07 |
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60 |
The Copilot |
John |
06/14/01 |
04/20/07 |
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61 |
More on Grace, Heaven, Human and Divine, Use of
Our Gifts, Etc. |
Steve |
06/14/01 |
04/20/07 |
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62 |
A Heaven With Only One Door? |
John |
06/20/01 |
04/20/07 |
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63 |
Faith Before Evidence, or Visa Versa (and Other
Thoughts on Faith) |
Steve |
06/26/01 |
04/20/07 |
|
64 |
Underlying Assumptions |
John |
06/29/01 |
04/20/07 |
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65 |
Is Faith a Matter of the Heart, or the Head? Seeing the Man in the Gorilla Suit |
Bob |
06/30/01 |
04/21/07 |
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66 |
Who Is Jesus to Me? |
Steve |
07/03/01 |
04/21/07 |
|
67 |
Our Very Different Bookshelves |
John |
07/07/01 |
04/21/07 |
|
68 |
Sources for Understanding God |
Steve |
07/09/01 |
04/21/07 |
|
69 |
More Than One Primary Source, and None Infallible
|
John |
07/11/01 |
04/22/07 |
|
70 |
The Bible as a Source for Understanding God |
Steve |
07/09/01 |
04/22/07 |
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71 |
Regarding Skepticism, Yancey, and the Bible |
Bob |
07/12/01 |
04/22/07 |
|
72 |
Christian Apologetics Advance a Pernicious
Argument Against Universalism |
Bob |
07/13/01 |
04/22/07 |
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73 |
Spong, Skepticism, Confirmation |
John |
07/16/01 |
04/22/07 |
|
74 |
Is Doubt Always a Precursor to Faith? |
Steve |
07/16/01 |
04/22/07 |
|
75 |
What Can We Pray For? |
Bob |
06, 07/01 |
04/22/07 |
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76 |
Does Prayer Move God? |
Steve |
07/18/01 |
04/22/07 |
|
77 |
Where Was God on September 11, 2001? (A Prayer) |
Steve |
09/20/01 |
04/22/07 |
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78 |
A Continuum of Intervention |
Bob |
12/21/01 |
04/25/07 |
|
79 |
At What Level Does God Intervene in Our Lives? |
Steve |
12/26/01 |
04/25/07 |
|
80 |
Bob’s Framework, and the Importance of Myth |
John |
01/09/02 |
04/25/07 |
|
81 |
Christian Faith a Myth? |
Steve |
01/11/02 |
04/29/07 |
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82 |
God Participates, Within Constraints of Chance
and Human Free Will |
Bob |
01/15/02 |
04/29/07 |
|
83 |
Free Will, and Looking Inside for God |
John |
01/21/02 |
04/29/07 |
|
84 |
The Box of Viewing God as Father: We’re In It, You’re Not? |
Bob |
01/28/02 |
04/30/07 |
|
85 |
Reactions to Man’s Understanding of God, and
Faith as Myth |
Steve |
01/30/02 |
04/30/07 |
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86 |
Colson, Bumper Stickers, Signs and Omens |
John |
02/05/02 |
04/30/07 |
|
87 |
Our Safe Little Worlds |
Steve |
02/07/02 |
04/30/07 |
|
88 |
An Imagined Conversation |
Bob |
02/06/02 |
04/30/07 |
|
89 |
Does God Protect Us? |
Steve |
02/09/02 |
04/30/07 |
|
90 |
Imaginings |
John |
02/15/02 |
04/30/07 |
|
91 |
Any Anchor for the Skeptic? |
Steve |
02/16/02 |
04/30/07 |
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92 |
Part 1: Somehow
Things Will Be Made Right Part 3: Faith and Obedience |
Bob |
02/20/02 02/21/02 02/22/02 |
05/01/07 |
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93 |
Skepticism About Certain People’s Open-Mindedness |
John |
02/26/02 |
05/01/07 |
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94 |
Reincarnation, Distribution of Gifts, and Joy |
Steve |
03/31/02 |
05/02/07 |
|
95 |
Readings and Thoughts on Conservative and Liberal
Christianity |
Bob |
06/12/02 |
05/02/07 |
|
96 |
Faith and Obedience, on Our Terms |
Steve |
06/15/02 |
05/02/07 |
|
97 |
Some Thoughts on Biblical Inerrancy |
Bob |
06/16/02 |
05/02/07 |
|
98 |
Further Thoughts on Inerrancy |
Bob |
06/16/02 |
05/02/07 |
|
99 |
Elisha & Naaman, and an Affirmation |
Bob |
06/18/02 |
05/04/07 |
|
100 |
Our Goal: Union with God? |
Steve |
06/23/02 |
05/04/07 |
|
101 |
What Christians Are Asking Me to Believe |
John |
07/12/02 |
05/04/07 |
|
102 |
More Thoughts on Jesus / Reading Books in John’s
Library |
Bob |
08/21/02 |
05/09/07 |
|
103 |
Bob’s Emphasis on Errancy; Cayce on Jesus |
John |
08/28/02 |
05/09/07 |
|
104 |
Worship, Gratitude, and Saviors |
Bob |
08/22/02 |
05/09/07 |
|
105 |
A Heart to Heart Chat |
Steve |
09/08/02 |
05/09/07 |
|
106 |
What Must I Do to Be Saved? |
Steve |
09/08/02 |
05/09/07 |
|
107 |
Christian Radio Blues |
John |
01/??/04 |
05/10/07 |
|
108 |
Heaven – A Place or a Relationship? |
Steve |
01/20/04 |
05/12/07 |
|
109 |
Reason and Human Nature |
Bob |
02/12/04 |
05/12/07 |
|
110 |
Reason and Faith |
Steve |
02/16/04 |
05/12/07 |
|
111 |
Initial Reaction to Steve’s Piece |
Bob |
03/08/04 |
05/13/07 |
|
112 |
Introduction to Three Views |
Bob |
03/08/04 |
05/13/07 |
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113 |
VIEW ONE: Know Yourself, Bring Forth What Is
Within, Discover the Wholeness of Ultimate Reality |
Bob |
03/08/04 |
05/14/07 |
|
114 |
Jesus WAS Something Special, But… |
John |
03/09/04 |
05/14/07 |
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115 |
VIEW TWO: Believe and Be Saved. Don’t Believe, and You’re Doomed. 1. The Basic Ideas
of View Two 2. Comments on
View Two 3. Excerpts from
Frederic Farrar’s Book Eternal Hope. |
Bob |
03/18/04 |
05/15/07 |
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116 |
Hell? No! |
John |
03/25/04 |
05/15/07 |
|
117 |
VIEW THREE: Trust in God’s Love, and Love’s Power |
Bob |
03/19/04 |
05/16/07 |
|
118 |
Our Three Paths to Faith |
Steve |
??/??/04 |
05/16/07 |
|
119 |
Music As Faith: Neurology As Faith |
John |
04/14/04 |
05/16/07 |
|
120 |
As We Use Our Talents, We Can Draw Close to God |
Steve |
04/19/04 |
05/17/07 |
|
121 |
Exploring VIEW THREE: Parts 1 to 5 1. Underlying Assumptions 2. Personal Belief 3. The Subtle
Presence of God 4. Faith That God
Is Good 5. What God
Expects of Us |
Bob |
09/30/04 11/15/04 11/17/04 11/20/04 12/01/04 |
05/18/07 |
|
122 |
VIEW THREE, Part 6: The Golden Rule Is View Three’s Moral Compass |
Bob |
12/15/04 |
05/21/07 |
|
123 |
VIEW THREE, Part 7: Outlook on Life After Death |
Bob |
04/15/05 |
05/22/07 |
|
124 |
VIEW THREE, Part 8: The Significance of Jesus |
Bob |
05/05/05 |
05/22/07 |
|
125 |
Jesus: “Who do you think I am?” |
Steve |
05/10/05 |
05/23/07 |
|
126 |
Selected Quotes from Bob’s Views, and Game Theory |
John |
05/13/05 |
05/23/07 |
|
127 |
Response to Steve’s Comments and Questions |
Bob |
05/15/05 |
05/23/07 |
|
128 |
Responses to Bob and John |
Steve |
05/18/05 |
05/23/07 |
|
129 |
VIEW THREE, Part 9: Scripture |
Bob |
05/03/05 |
05/25/07 |
|
130 |
VIEW THREE, Part 10: Concluding Piece for the “VIEWS” Series |
Bob |
06/21/05 |
05/25/07 |
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131 |
Life After Death? |
Steve |
07/08/05 |
05/25/07 |
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132 |
Response to VIEWS; and Religion and Politics |
John |
06/08/07 |
06/08/07 |
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133 Comments in Response to Steve and John’s Pieces 134 Punishment 135 More on God and Punishment 136 Punishment vs Karma 137 Life and Afterlife: Our Distinctions and Similarities 138 God's Intervention, Or Lack Thereof 139 Logic Is Not A Path To God 140 The Left Tackle 141 Breadth of God's Intervention with God 142 Hole-y Analogies and Reaping & Sowing 143 Musical Contrasts 144 Why 145 Coming to Terms with Mortality 146 Suffering Is One of Many Mysteries 147 Bob's Suffering Conundrum 148 Intervention vs Karma 149 God's Nudging and Miracles |
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