Today a very smart Doctor told me I had cancer. He said it was a mid range infestation, with two good alternatives of treatment. Each as barbaric as the other.
God, now has my full attention.
Today a very smart Doctor told me I had cancer. He said it was a mid range infestation, with two good alternatives of treatment. Each as barbaric as the other.
God, now has my full attention.
None of us are completely present.
So don’t feel guilty.
This is the ideal, the enlightened moments that come now and then.
But we do know that when we are manipulating, changing, controlling, and fixing, we are not there yet.
The calculating mind is the opposite of the contemplative mine.
The first is thought by the system, the second by the spirit.
Richard Roher–Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
The first chapters of Genesis were not written to communicate history or science. Creation stories had an entirely different purpose in the Ancient Near East.
Source: The Real Story Behind Genesis
It is high time we abandon this plainly stupid (for lack of a better word) doctrine, as it has done more than enough damage already.
Source: Dispensationalism: A Doctrine More Dangerous Than Hell Itself
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