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How Faith And Religion Shaped America’s First 250 Years
/in Trending Now!Patheos, the leading web platform hosting dialogue on all of the world’s religions, reminds us as we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, it is worth remembering that freedom of religion is not a side note in our founding — it is central to it. From the start, our Founders made a promise: people could practice their faith freely, without fear of government control or persecution. Read More
Take Parenting Fears to Jesus
/in Trending Now!In a recent book review of the book “Fearless” by Max Lucado
“Wise are the parents who regularly give their children back to God. Parents, we can be loyal advocates, stubborn intercessors. And we can take our parenting fears to Christ.”
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The Urantia Book give us many reasons to lean on Jesus when we worry about how best to parent our children. Jesus stood in the role of loving parent after the untimely death of his father, Joseph. For nearly twenty years, he raised his siblings as a wise and loving father.
Read about Jesus’ parenting style which can be a source of inspiration and advice for any parent. Truthbook also offers an in-depth study of Jesus and his brothers and sisters and the rich ife they shared in their Nazareth home.Read Here
Jesus Didn’t Die for Your Sins
/in Trending Now!This essay was posted to Street Prophets, a progressive religious community. Read More
Excerpt: “God is not bloodthirsty. Too many people have been alienated from Christ by Christian theology. One of the most alienating doctrines is penal substitutionary atonement theory, the belief that Jesus died as a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins, having taken our sinfulness onto himself to save us from eternal damnation. A close relative is satisfaction theory, Anselm’s belief that, since finite humankind has sinned against an infinite God and cannot repay its infinite debt, God sent Jesus as an infinite, divine-human substitute to satisfy the divine honor and expiate our guilt for us, thereby restoring right relationship.”
The concept of God as a vengeful autocrat who can be appeased only through death by torture does not cohere with Jesus’s revelation of Abba as a loving Parent. Loving parents are not inflexible disciplinarians, and skillful parents frequently forgo their wayward children’s punishment and offer mercy instead. Urantia Book readers are well-aware of the falacy of that doctrine. It has been such a stumbling block to the faith of countless souls.
Urantia Book teachings about the topic of atonement are Here: Read our topical study