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Karen Armstrong Defines Christianity

“Believing in God is neither here nor there,” Armstrong says. “You have to make that belief work for the world. Christianity is about looking at other people’s point of view. It’s ‘kenosis,’ or emptying of the self. It means you have to dethrone yourself from the center of your world and put others there.”
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Karen Armstrong On Those Who Believe In The End Times

While discussing the “Left Behind” series, Armstrong said
“It’s a strange thing in this country that people have this view of the world. If these people went to a psychiatrist, they would be diagnosed with a psychological disorder. The fact that so many people subscribe to this shows a profound unease, fear, a feeling of impotence, [...]

Quote From Karen Armstrong About God Being Within The Self

See the source here.
“Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.”
Don’t miss this….she is teaching that God is within the [...]

A Few Quotes From Karen Armstrong

I have been reading a transcript of an interview of Karen Armstrong. The interview was conducted by Steve Paulson of Salon.com. You can read it for yourself here. Be prepared to be shocked if you are not familiar with Karen Armstrong. You will notice that she often refers [...]

Foundations: In the beginning…..

(Genesis 1:1) In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
This is the very first verse in the Bible. It is the foundation that the rest of the Bible builds upon. I have had the opportunity to teach this verse twice recently…once to my adult Sunday School class (from the Explore the Bible Sunday [...]

Rapid Acceleration in Human Evolution??

The title to the article (found here) got my attention. How about you?
You might be curious to know what we are evolving into but they are not talking about Darwinian Evolution. The article is discussing the changing characteristics within the human species….this is know as micro evolution.
The genetic changes have related to numerous [...]

Remembering Pearl Harbor, 66 years later

Source:  The PatriotPost
“December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan… Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the [...]

Do Christians and Muslims Worship The Same God?

I was faced with this question at a Deacons meeting last night at my church. As part of the devotional time at the beginning of the meeting one of the Deacons made a comment and gave a short presentation that basically said that the God of Christianity is the same god the Muslims [...]