Discovering the Missing Hebrew Link!

Those words are clearly linked to the Hebrew Scriptures. So how did they get in America’s founding document? Jews didn’t appear in the American history books I read in public school. The link is there, and a great deal of information is available online. The story began when Queen Isabella asked Pope Sixtus IV for permission to set up an Inquisition to weed out heresy. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/3a0ae5cdb24e/discovering-the-missing-hebrew-link

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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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