Chaos or Order? The Choice is Ours to Make!

I was a banker before I became a preacher and later the co-founder of the Biblical Heritage Center. Banking is in my blood and when financial markets go crazy, that always gets my attention. So that’s what I have been doing instead of writing these emails. Interestingly, I discovered something I had been looking for in my biblical research as I analyzed a bunch of financial statements. Continue at - https://mailchi.mp/6400a9329d78/order-of-chaos-the-choice-is-ours-to-make

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What am I?

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...

Who Created “Good” and “Evil”?

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

Realities 101

Philosophers have been talking about “ realities ” for centuries. Neuroscientists are just now beginning to enter the discussions. Many of the discussions about realities come down to answers to two questions: ● What is real? ● What actually exists? Our answers to the above questions may surprise you. Read the complete article at – http://www.tovcenter.org/realities-101.html

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