In
the last email, we left the newly created man (I will now call him “Adam”)
standing in a garden in Eden alone – the garden
of the god Yahweh. Adam is surrounded by trees that produce beautiful and appealing
fruit. But, even though its fruit is beautiful too, Yahweh commanded Adam to
not eat from one tree. The penalty for eating
the forbidden fruit is death! Continue reading at --
What am I? Now that’s a question a lot of people have asked in the history of humans. We ( Rabbi Jeffrey Leynor and former pastor Jim Myers ) created two models for working with that question – after wrestling with it for over 25 years . You may have noticed that use models instead of answers. Most questions about life are better understood by using models that reveal potentialities than statements of either/or answers . Our models emerged from two sources in which our research and studies focused on during our journey together – one source is an ancient wisdom account embedded in our shared religious texts and the other source is modern science . This makes our approach at the TOV Center unique in many respects – we combine the wisdom of ancient texts with the facts of modern science to maximize human experiences . As pointed out above, we created a model from each source to help us better understand humans: (1) Ancient Wisdom Model – Humans are creatures that share t...
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