Category: Unorthodox Thinking
Results of my renewed thinking. My non-religious philosophy and irreverent, unChristian beliefs
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Immigrants Need Repentance and Greater Productivity
Relying on Jesus to Feed Them A crowd of thousands sought Jesus after He fed their bellies but were called to repentance. Today’s illegal immigrants need to also show repentance and greater productivity. In Chapter 6 of his Good News, the apostle John wrote that a large crowd followed Jesus to see more of the… Read more
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Jesus, Too, Needed Repentance
Introduction “Ezra wants to repent!” My oldest grandson, Malachi, ran up to his father with those exciting words about his younger brother. Those words showed Malachi’s shallow understanding of the word. He meant that Ezra wanted to give his heart to Jesus. He would have never believed Jesus, too, needed repentance. “Repent” is a word… Read more
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Seven Things Wrong with English Bible Translations
NOT Against the Writings of the Original Authors The way I talk and write, people might think I’m against the Bible as God’s inspired Word. This is very untrue. I am against how English translators rendered various biblical concepts and how Christians demand adherence to literal English wording. I wish to point out seven things… Read more
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No Distinction between Heaven and Eden
My Need for Repentance Until just recently, I have been making a distinction between Heaven and Eden or its Greek equivalent, Paradise. I’ve been saying believers who die don’t go to Heaven but to Paradise. I’ve been emphasizing in my mind Tim Mackie’s concept of Eden as Heaven overlapping with places on Earth. The idea… Read more
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Say “No” to Ungodly Reparations
WRONGNESS OF EUROPEAN INVASION People say that white, European conquerors came to the land of America and drove out the native inhabitants of the land. They also bought blacks from Africa and put them through the atrocities of slavery. For that reason, native and black descendents struggle with poverty. Because of this, people say, the… Read more