My Own Thoughts

Again from Willard’s Hearing God. Some Christians too commonly demonnstrate that the notions of “faith in Christ” and “love for Christ” leave Christ outside the personality of the believer. One wonders whether the modern translations of the Bible are not being governed by the need to turn outr weakened practice into the norm of faith. [...]

I am reading Willard’s Hearing God and I have found it to be a book full of good thoughts and strong ideas. I have also found it to abound in his beliefs, which he sets against other beliefs (such as mine) or which he doesn’t even seem to realize might not be universal. For example, [...]

is the title of a section of the chapter “Redemption through the Word of God” from Hearing God. It has an interesting perspective on Nicodemus. .. Nicodemus, this leader, complimented Jesus [in John 3:2], yet at the same time he complimented himself on being an insider who had the good sense to recognize God at [...]

Hearing God by Dallas Willard seems to me to have a misunderstanding of magic. He says that magic doesn’t cause things to happen. The belief of the people that are involved in the thing, the receivers of the negativity, cause it to happen. So a voodoo doll pin doesn’t give a person pain. A person [...]

I’m reading a book by that name by Dallas Willard. And I’ve been thinking about how I’ve heard God. I used to “know” things without having anyway to know them. I knew when my grama was hit by a car. I knew when my friend was mugged. I knew when my friend was in trouble. [...]