Paul’s teaching on the “sinful death of humanity in Adam” is that every individual has lost direction, lost connection with God, and become corrupted. Yet each person still retains certain capacities that allow them, to greater or lesser degrees, to perceive the Divine light. In Catholic tradition (Augustine, Thomas Aquinas)…
Religion is often viewed as an exhibition of sacred artifacts, or salvation imagined as the outcome of a courtroom verdict. Yet Jesus, in His teaching, offered a very different picture: one that was dynamic and alive, deeply connected to the rhythms of living nature. “I am the true vine, and…
A soldier is not a free man and is often cruel. The commander gives orders, and the soldier does. On that memorable spring day, the procurator ordered the soldiers to beat Yeshua. After numerous beatings, Jesus was crowned with thorns, dressed in a bright red cloak and led out to…
The Big Five model—one of the most widely recognized theories of personality in academic psychology—is used in scientific research, HR and coaching, and psychotherapy as a fundamental tool for understanding human nature. But what if we apply this model to the personality of Jesus? The five core traits are: Openness…
Today it is impossible to imagine understanding Christianity without such quotes from Paul: “we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death,” “we were buried with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father,…
Happiness is a state of a person that corresponds to the greatest inner satisfaction with the conditions of his existence, the fullness and meaningfulness of life, the fulfillment of his calling and self-realization. “Happy are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God.” Many of Jesus’s listeners…
Jesus’ remark “whoever looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart” is not something that people like to mention. It’s not just that we can’t learn to control our sexuality. It’s that most people are confused that neither priests, nor preachers, nor the church…
Speaking in the Capernaum synagogue, in the presence of numerous officials of the Jerusalem Sanhedrin, Jesus spoke out openly against the tradition of ritual hand and body washing. In conclusion, He essentially declared that ritual washing was unnecessary, since “it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a…
It was truly an unusual sight for all Jewry to see a man of righteous character mixing freely and perhaps cheerfully with the uneducated common people, with tax collectors who were virtually expelled from the synagogues and Jewish society, and with the so-called “sinners” – the far-religious lovers of entertainment.…
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People see grass as green. But grass does not have color in the absolute sense. Different biological beings see grass differently. What we call color is the result of the interaction between light, an object’s surface, the observer’s eye and brain. So grass appears green to a human because chlorophyll in the leaves absorbs mainly…
Christians know the commandment “do not steal.” They read the Bible, go to church, listen to sermons, and sing about holiness and honesty. Yet history reveals an unpleasant fact: religiosity by itself does not protect a person from moral failure. More than that, sometimes a religious person becomes especially skilled at justifying themselves. American history…
The word “biological” in the modern world is often associated with materialism, the reduction of a person to chemistry, Darwinism, and a purely physical life. So some readers might mistakenly think that here spirituality is being reduced to the biology of the body. Not at all. Jesus described spiritual life as a living, organic process,…
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