Well, let us look more deeply into the verse that gives you such trouble. The first meaning is that Heaven and Earth do not mean Heaven plus Earth. Heaven and earth are a synecdoche, a figure of ...

In today’s Gospel reading, John the evangelist recounts the second instance of the eternal world breaking into the transitory ...

In the 90th psalm, Moses prays about the stark difference between the Lord and mankind. Though we are made in his image and bear his likeness, the man of God explains that God is eternal and man is ...

Why would a loving God allow someone to be tortured eternally? I wouldn't, and surely I am more of a jerk than God. As I've written several times, I find belief in Hell (by which I mean a place of ...

Different voices that span a long period of time converge in the book of the prophet Isaiah, whose authorship and inspiration are all attributed to this great witness to God's word, who lived in the ...

This past week we celebrated the ascension of Jesus – an occasion that seems to have an almost mystical quality about it – and thus, as it straddles both the physical “earthly” realm and the spiritual ...

What happened to the ancient Aztec, Babylonian, Celtic, Egyptian, Greek, Mayan, Norse, Roman and Sumerian gods and goddesses? God seems to be becoming diverse. With indifference towards religion and ...

Why would a loving God allow someone to be tortured eternally? I wouldn't, and surely I am more of a jerk than God. As I've written several times, I find belief in Hell (by which I mean a place of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...