The Question That Has Always Bothered Me The story of Adam and Eve leaves me with a question that is hard to brush aside. If God knows everything, then God already knew Adam and Eve would disobey before he created them. He knew the serpent would tempt them and knew what choice they would make.
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When Modern Words Are Missing From Scripture The words boyfriend and girlfriend do not appear in the Bible, but that fact needs some historical context. The Bible was written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek long before modern dating language existed. People in biblical times did not organize romantic relationships the same way we do today.
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The Question of Who We Really Are Most of us go through life believing there is one continuous person inside us who has remained basically the same since childhood. We say, “I was ten years old,” “I made that mistake,” and “I will do better tomorrow,” as though one permanent self has traveled through every
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More Than the Woman Tradition Made Her Mary Magdalene holds one of the most fascinating places in early Christianity because the woman many of us were taught about is not quite the woman we find in the earliest Christian writings. Those writings present her not simply as a fallen woman, but as a devoted disciple
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When Desire Starts Making the Decisions There comes a time in life when we have to ask ourselves whether we are controlling our desires or whether our desires are controlling us. Sexual attraction is a natural part of being human, and there is nothing wrong with feeling attracted to somebody. The trouble begins when desire
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A Different Way of Looking at Our Beginning There is an old spiritual idea that asks us to consider something we may never have thought about before. What if our lives did not begin completely by accident? What if, before we were born, our souls somehow had a part in choosing the circumstances that would
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What the Hardest Seasons Teach Us When you go through one of the toughest seasons of your life and feel like you are facing it alone, something inside you begins to change. Hard times can teach you things that easier days never could. You discover how much pain you can carry without allowing it to
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Rethinking the Inner Child We often hear people say that we have to heal our inner child before we can become emotionally whole. There is truth in that idea, especially when childhood included hurt, neglect, fear, rejection, or experiences we were too young to understand. But I believe there may be another way to look
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The Question of Who We Really Are At some point in life, most of us look back and realize we are not the same person we used to be. We may recognize ourselves in an old photograph while hardly recognizing the thoughts, fears, dreams, and beliefs that once lived behind that face. British philosopher Derek
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What Lies Beneath the Ordinary There comes a time in spiritual growth when we begin wondering whether what we have been searching for has been closer than we ever imagined. Dr. Lonnie Edwards invites us to consider that Light, Life, and Love are not distant spiritual treasures waiting somewhere beyond us, but realities already present
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