How important is it
for people to understand what “good”
and “evil” mean? For those of us with
Christian Biblical Heritages, evil is a
very important word. In the King
James Version of the Bible the word “evil”
appears 613 times. “Good”
appears 720 times. I found this very interesting, because I heard a lot
more about evil than I did about good in the church my family attended when
I was growing up. That really stood out at the end of every church service when
“the invitation” was given. It was an
opportunity for “lost” people
to be “saved.” Why were they
lost and why did they need to be saved? Continue reading at --
https://mailchi.mp/a38b5c20c334/who-created-good-and-evil
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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