Christians tend to believe that the people of ancient Jerusalem saw Jesus as a false prophet who committed blasphemy by claiming to be God and for this reason Jesus had to be put to death. The four gospels seem to focus on this as the motivation for those who wanted Jesus executed, but the gospels…

Through His death, Jesus destroys the devil. Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; How does Jesus destroy the devil? The right hand…

What is love, and is this question important to God? This book is based on the idea that our world of good and evil exists so that God could go with us on our journey to experience all the incredible emotions of human life. Repulsed by hatred or arrogance, but otherwise God is within us,…

John 11:33-38 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. Jesus wept. Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him! And some of them…

We cannot comprehend infinity, but we can contemplate that God’s righteousness is infinite. God cannot tell a lie, and God does not hate anyone. But not hating anyone means a rejection of hatred, an infinite, total and complete rejection of hatred. Being infinite love and infinite non-hatred, God is repulsed by hatred and all evil.…

For millennia the story of Sodom and Gomorrah has been seen as a condemnation of people who are homosexuals. The real sins of Sodom were pride and a lack of compassion for the poor. Not that we should enslave the poor with endless handouts, but “strengthen the hand of the poor”, or help the poor…