The Burning Bush of Exodus This post is a guest post kindly submitted by a friend of mine, and it’s my belief you’ll find it interesting. If you have any questions for him, I’ll add links to his website, and you can contact him directly. I’m sure he’d love to…
Abrahamic Religions
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It’s been suggested by some scholars that God chose the Hebrews as his special people due to their contentiousness. Although I can think of a few other reasons, the idea does have merit, for their propensity to challenge and argue surfaces repeatedly throughout the Old/Hebrew Bible. Moreover, neither Christianity nor…
Islam pivots around one central figure. If asked, most non-Muslims would guess it to be Muhammad. Most Muslims, on the other hand, would promptly identify it as God—for everything and everyone comes second. Still…. Muhammad is pretty close on His heels. At least, for a mortal. After every utterance of…
Other than a few comments concerning Jesus by the ancient historians Flavius Josephus and Tacitus, we have precious little evidence of the savior of all Christendom. There are the gospels of course, as well as the gnostic texts, but these two sets not only often contradict each other as well…
Most people know that Rumi was a Sufi and that the whirling dervishes are Sufis, but that about sums up their Sufi expertise. So, I’m going to provide you with a few other fundamentals, as I understand them. It is mystical: Sufism is not a separate sect of Islam, but an…
If today’s Christian could travel back in time to the first and second centuries, she would no doubt be surprised that the simpler, purer, and homogenous Christianity so often portrayed in Christian children’s books never was. I discuss this further in my Spirituality Counseling Sessions, but let me explain here…
I’ve always been interested in the story of Jacob wrestling with God (although in this picture it’s an angel), because it’s so rich in symbolism. Interpretations of the incident meander across the three Abrahamic religions, and range from one extreme to the other. Here are some: It is metaphorical: Jacob…