The
Bible opens with two polar opposite stories about the creation of humans – but I could not see that for a very long
time. I had been taught to read my Bible from an “authority first” perspective. “Authority
first” is a very “religious” way
of reading the Bible and in my religion it meant – submit, comply, obey and don’t question authority! For us, God
was the highest authority of all and the leaders of our religion were
God’s authorized agents, therefore “good
Christians” were supposed to submit, comply,
obey and not question God’s authorized agents either!!! Continue reading at
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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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