Jan 14
While the Second Coming of Christ is clearly a spiritual event about salvation, it has been misunderstood or misrepresented by several Christian groups throughout history. In many of these teachings, Armageddon becomes synonymous with Christ’s return, emphasizing divine judgment and the defeat of evil rather than focusing on the message of love, grace, and salvation that Jesus brought.
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Jul 16
Marcion of Sinope was an influential early Christian theologian who lived around 85-160 AD. He is best known for founding Marcionism, a belief system that distinguished between the vengeful God of the Old Testament and the loving God of the New Testament, whom he believed sent Jesus Christ.
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Jul 11
The humble Black pudding, a distinctive type of blood sausage found in various guises around the world, has a rich history that spans across cultures and centuries, and represents a vestigial element to our collective legacy of blood sacrifice.
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Jul 06
Syncretism, the amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought, has its roots in the ancient world.
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Jun 11
The story of the temptation of Christ, is a merging of three different visits by the devil, and the very last thing that happened was the testing for 40 days and 40 nights. I’ve tried to word it more accurately, but I too have distorted the truth, somewhat, to do that. To make it more understandable in the context of the original summarisation.
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Jun 06
Jesus spoke of the Kingdom Within. This is related to, but not, the kingdom of God. Did any scholars realise this? Did any of them realise that the Kingdom of God holds many kingdoms, and each of us has a Kingdom within God’s kingdom?
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May 31
The concept of the Triple Goddess, embodying the archetypes of Maiden, Mother, and Crone, is a profound symbol found in various forms across many cultures and religious traditions. It represents the three stages of a woman’s life and the inherent divine feminine qualities of each phase.
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May 06
I travelled to a church in England, where the vicar told me that the window I was looking at, contained a graven image of God the Father.
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Apr 01
An article exploring some alternative philosophies and understandings behind the meaning of Easter, and the philosophy that there is nothing.
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