To frame my thoughts on the full ramifications of Yeshua's sacrifice, I need to start by rambling philosophical on the nature of "spirit." If we don't understand what a "spirit" is or what we mean when we talk about a "spiritual realm," how can we understand what the Bible means when it uses spiritual terminology. …
Searching For Forgiveness
One of the better books that I've read recently is Robert J. Hutcheson's Searching For Jesus. It's a look at the more recent turns in scholarship in regards to the life, death, and resurrection of Yeshua of Nazareth. It was published in 2015, so the information is pretty up-to-date, so for that reason alone it …
Choose Your Own Afterlife
An old friend of mine posted a thought experiment recently: Basically, pick your afterlife ala a Choose Your Own Adventure scenario. He wanted people to choose what they most probably considered to be the truth from a number of options, one of which was, "People who exhibit sufficient good in life go to a heaven of some …