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09/08/2026

So many brimstoners and infernalists who argue for Hell as a place of eternal conscious torment seem to suffer from a Vitamin “A” Deficiency— “A” as in “ALL.” They simply can’t seem to absorb the pervasive use of the word ALL (or EVERY) used in so many New Testament passages.

I once received the following comment from one such critic.

“Richard, the New Testament NEVER teaches that ALL men will be reconciled to God. I understand that you think God uses His postmortem judgment fire to cure, purge, and prepare humanity for heaven, not torture them for eternity. I understand that you believe God's punishments are rehabilitative, not retributive. It's a nice thought but it's nowhere taught in the New Testament. You have no passages to support your position."

Really? This myopic viewpoint never ceases to amaze me. People have been so indoctrinated with a view of Hell where God sends those who displease and disbelieve Him into eternal conscious torment.

This indoctrination comes from closing their eyes and endlessly chanting a handful of passages about Hell which have largely been mistranslated (at least from the ways the early church fathers understood them, Patristic scholars who knew Koine Greek far better than do we moderns).

Those indoctrinated by Hell's hive mind have been programmed to completely ignore so many other Scriptures, no matter how specific and on point they are.

The verses below say what they say. Notice the use of "all" and "everybody." Notice there are no exceptions given.

“This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance. For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, Who is the Savior of ALL MEN, ESPECIALLY [Greek: "to the greatest degree"] of those who believe. These things command and teach." (1 Tim. 4:9-11). [this passage clearly includes even those who do not believe as being within the ambit of salvation].

"Jesus, was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for EVERYONE." (Heb. 2:9)

"This is good and acceptable in the sight of our God our saviour; Who WILL have ALL men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus: Who gave himself a ransom for ALL, to be testified in due time." (1 Tim. 2:3-6, KJV).

"He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might GATHER TOGETHER IN ONE ALL THINGS IN CHRIST, BOTH WHICH ARE IN HEAVEN AND WHICH ARE HEAVEN AND WHICH ARE ON EARTH— IN HIM." (Eph. 1:9-10).

"He will transform the body of our humble condition into the likeness of His glorious body, by the power that enables Him to subject ALL THINGS TO HIMSELF" (Phil. 3:21).

"EVERY MAN'S work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be BURNED, he shall SUFFER LOSS: but HE HIMSELF SHALL BE SAVED; yet so AS BY FIRE." 1 Cor. 3:13-15. (Key passage on the postmortem judgment fire of God, where there is suffering and loss for the errant soul, but ultimately salvation, yes as by fire).

"For as in Adam ALL DIE, even so in Christ shall ALL BE MADE ALIVE. But EVERY man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put ALL enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put ALL things under his feet. But when he saith, ALL things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put ALL things under him. And when ALL things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put ALL things under him, that GOD MAY BE 'ALL IN ALL.' Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?" 1 Corinthians 15:22-29.

"I heard EVERY creature IN heaven, ON earth, UNDER the earth, ON the sea, and EVERYTHING in them say: Blessing and honor and glory and dominion to the One seated on the throne and to the Lamb, forever and ever!" (Rev. 5:13). (Angels here are included in the restoration-- no creaturely exception.)

"Then He who sat on the throne said, 'Behold, I make ALL things new'" (God will dwell with men and he will wipe every tear from their eyes, death, mourning, crying, pain and the old order of things will pass and everything and everybody will be made new. Rev. 21:5, 3-4).

"At the name of Jesus EVERY knee should bow, of those in heaven, and those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that EVERY tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father." (Phil. 2:10:11).

"ALL Israel will be saved." (Rom. 11:26)

"Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for ALL, and therefore ALL died." (2 Cor. 5:14)

"Just as the result of one trespass was condemnation of ALL MEN, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for ALL MEN." (Rom. 5:18)

"And I, if I (Jesus) am lifted up from the earth, will draw ["drag" in the Greek, helkuo] ALL MANKIND unto Myself." (John 12:32).

Read this last passage together with, "No one can come to Christ unless the Father who sent Him draws him." (John 6:44), and we are left with the unavoidable promise that Jesus WILL draw all men to Himself.

In Jesus Christ is "the restoration of ALL THINGS, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began." (Acts 3:21)

The Gospel is "good tidings of great joy will be to ALL people." (Luke 2:10)

Believers in Christ are "born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." (John 1:13)

God appointed Jesus "heir of ALL THINGS, and through whom He made the universe." (Heb. 1:2)

"As God gave Jesus authority over ALL FLESH, that he should give eternal life to as many as God have Him." (John 17:2)

The Father "has given ALL THINGS into Jesus' hands." (John 13:3)

Jesus "was the true light which gives light to EVERY MAN who come into the world." (John 1:9)

"Just as the result of one trespass was condemnation of ALL MEN, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for ALL MEN." (Rom. 5:18)

Jesus is "able even to subdue ALL THINGS to Himself." (Phil. 3:21)

"The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering towards us, not willing that any should perish, but that ALL should come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9)

"God was Christ reconciling THE WORLD to Himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: be reconciled to God." (2 Cor. 5:19, 20).

Now, doesn’t the above Vitamin A ( as in ALL) injection help us feel as right as rain?

09/06/2026

All too often, Christians emphasize FORESIGHT over INSIGHT.

Prophecy, rather than primarily being seen as a dynamic way of discerning God’s heart here and now, instead becomes a Nostradamian protocol whereby we meticulously predict the timeline of future events.

Here is what I have come to believe. Revelation about God's character comes much more from INSIGHT than from FORESIGHT.

Many claim knowledge about God's character based on their, or someone else's, belief about God's future violent actions, a FORESIGHT in other words. These FORESIGHTS usually include God's genocidal wrath, Hell's eternal tortures, earth's agonizing judgments, etc.

The problem is that these people who claim FORESIGHT too often lack deep INSIGHT into God's divine nature as revealed by Jesus Christ.

You see, I don't claim to know the FUTURE, but I do claim to know the FATHER. Jesus revealed Him to me. And Jesus continues to confirm, what William Law famously called, Abba's "unchangeable will to all goodness."

So, if ANYBODY claims a speculative FORESIGHT about God which contradicts my definite INSIGHT into Jesus' nature, then I reject the FORESIGHT as untrue.

Jesus reveals a Father who only gives good gifts, who only blesses, who only saves, and who is only light.

Jesus IS our INSIGHT into the Father.

God never tempts us with evil, tries us with evil, punishes us with evil, harms us with evil, kills us with evil, abandons us to evil, or tortures us with evil.

Once this INSIGHT is received, it will trump any alleged FORESIGHT which says otherwise.

09/05/2026

What if the Bible is meant to be the “history of meaning” rather than the “meaning of history.”
It’s noodle baker. Let it cook.

09/04/2026

Did Jesus ever write the Scriptures in His own hand?

The shocking answer is “yes.”

Jesus’ handwritten translation is flawless, brilliant and perfect. There are no textual ambiguities, no scribe's errors, no mis-numbering or misquoting. It is totally accurate and reliable.

Want a copy? Ok, put your hand over heart. Now, tenderly focus on God’s Spirit. There, you just accessed it.

Jesus’ Handwritten Version is right there in plain view ---- written all over your heart, your thoughts and your passions. Written by the finger of God on you, in you and for you. The Word is "tattooed" all over your being right now, regardless of how much or how little you have read the "printed" Bible.

"YOU are our epistle... MANIFESTLY declared to be the epistle of Christ... WRITTEN NOT with ink, BUT with the SPIRIT of the LIVING GOD; NOT in tables of stone, BUT IN FLESHLY TABLES OF THE HEART, and such TRUST we have THROUGH CHRIST TOWARD GOD.... Who also hath made us ABLE ministers of the New Testament; NOT of the LETTER, but OF the SPIRIT: for the letter KILLS, but the SPIRIT gives LIFE. But if the ministration of death, WRITTEN and ENGRAVED in tablets, was glorious,... how much MORE GLORIOUS shall be the ministration of the Spirit?" 2 Corinthians 3:2-4, 6-8.

"But this shall be the COVENANT that I WILL make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and WRITE IT IN THEIR HEARTS; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord!', for they shall ALL know me, from the least unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." Jeremiah 31:33-34.

So beloved, IF we really believe these passages above, why do we still largely "serve" the OUTER BIBLE rather than the INNER BIBLE? The OUTER BIBLE is a great external resource divinely inspired and beneficial in a thousand different ways, BUT why do we PRIORITIZE and serve it BEFORE our INNER BIBLE, the BETTER BIBLE of our BETTER COVENANT with BETTER PROMISES. It is BETTER in every way because God's laws of love are ALREADY written inside us. If we could but grasp the enormity of this truth, we could unleash the power of God from within as manifest sons of God.

Let me be clear. We should definitely study and revere written Scripture, BUT not above, before and at the expense of the Word of God written on our inner parts. This Word is Christ in us, the hope of glory.

It is like the difference between a treasure map and the treasure itself. The treasure map is to be cleaved to tightly UNTIL we actually find the treasure, but when we do, the map is now secondary in importance. Of course, if we put the treasure back in the ground, then we need to clutch tight to the map again in order to relocate the treasure should we stray and forget the burial spot. But when we have the treasure before us, we are to revel in IT and not the map any longer.

So what is the Word written on our hearts? It is the "prompting presence" of God in the form of the Holy Spirit. It is the divine nature of Christ indwelling us. It is Christ IN us, the hope of glory. We are temples of the Holy Ghost housing the Spirit of the living God. Our born again birth right is to hear the voice of the Shepherd and to follow it. The Sons of God are those led by the Spirit of God, not the external Bible of God.

Do you see the importance here? Anybody can twist numerous Old and New Testament verses alike to say most anything ---- justifying violence, hatred, unforgiveness, cruelty and wrath. For every verse of love and forgiveness cited by one, another can cite a verse of destruction or revenge.

BUT, the Jesus Handwritten Version can never be twisted. It is a heart engraved translation and is always upright and clean. The inner voice of grace, mercy and forgiveness always walks tall in our Spirit-quickened conscience. We judge not. We turn the other cheek, not just because the Bible says to, but because the Holy Spirit urges this divine idea from within. God doesn't love us because the Bible tells me so. God loves us because the Holy Spirit PERFORMS the ACTUAL love of God for us in our hearts. He performs in us 24/7 through His Spirit-showings in our inner man.

The OUTER BIBLE is there to always point to the INNER BIBLE, but NOT to replace it. The INNER BIBLE illuminates, renovates and properly translates the OUTER BIBLE, and not vice versa. We are to let the character of God interpret written Scripture, but NOT let the written Scripture interpret the character of God.

The deep truths of God flow from the INNER MAN outward, NOT from the OUTER MAN inward. So, if the OUTER BIBLE "APPEARS" to say God commits evil by stealing, killing or destroying the lives of men, or even that He sits idly by while allowing such destructions to occur, then your INNER BIBLE TRUMPS that claim when your conscience rises up and declares "No! God is good. Only good. Always good!"

The OUTER BIBLE not only serves as a MAP, as discussed above, but it also serves as a MIRROR. It reflects from without what the voice of God is ALREADY telling us within. This is why true spiritual knowledge feels more like we are remembering the truth than newly discovering it. The treasure we carry, the indwelling mystery of Christ, is carried in these earthen vessels we call bodies.

We can too easily forget we are Second Adams born of the Spirit rather than First Adams born of the dust. The MIRROR aspect of the OUTER BIBLE helps us shake the dust of neglect off our self-image. The written Bible serves as a point of reflection to remind us we are made in God's image and that we are NEVER to NEGLECT or FORGET the treasure buried within us, the very life and Spirit of God. But if we do, the written Bible is there to point the way back by REMINDING us who WE are IN CHRIST and who HE is IN US.

So, as a MAP, the EXTERNAL BIBLE leads us to FIND the treasure already hidden in our hearts. As a MIRROR, the EXTERNAL BIBLE is also there to REMIND us who we are in God. Lastly, as a form of MILK, it is there to help us grow initially in our spiritual infancy. But, as we grow, it becomes necessary to WEAN ourselves OFF the milk of the literal and mature into the meat of the Spiritual. The meat of the Spiritual can only be found by prioritizing the INNER BIBLE over the OUTER BIBLE.

We will still heartily use the OUTER BIBLE for devotion and study, BUT the proper translation of it will not come from OUTER BIBLE RULES OF INTERPRETATION, but rather from INNER BIBLE UNCTIONS OF UNDERSTANDING. In other words, SPIRITUAL LEADING, not LITERAL READING, is our source for all Biblical understanding.

The INNER BIBLE is really just another word for the "ANOINTING" used in the following passage: "But you have an UNCTION (literally 'anointing') from the Holy One, and you know ALL things.... But the ANOINTING which you have RECEIVED of Him abides IN you and you need not that ANY man teach you: but as the SAME ANOINTING teaches you of ALL things, and IS truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall ABIDE in Him." 1 John 2:20, 27.

Do you see the similarity between this verse and the Jeremiah 31:33-34 passage quoted above? Men's LIMITED external teaching is replaced with the Spirit's LIMITLESS internal anointing. This ANOINTING imparts all knowledge to all men and ultimately removes the need for all teachers BECAUSE all are hearkening to their INNER BIBLES.

It has been said that the best teacher ultimately teaches you that you don't need a teacher. We are here to "wean" ourselves "away" from the OUTER BIBLE'S PARTIAL AND LITERAL REVELATION and instead feed ourselves continually on the INNER BIBLE'S COMPLETED AND SPIRITUAL REVELATION.

NEVER leave home without your INNER BIBLE. Jesus’ heart engraved version is the guaranteed best Bible translation ever. It is flawless. The HET Bible (Heart Engraved Translation) has already been disbursed to every man on earth, but most don't know it, while many others who may know it have yet to open it.

Still others, who both know they have the INNER BIBLE and actually read it from time to time, nonetheless fail to read it enough to actually abide in it. Some are too lazy to read it. Others simply don't believe in their ability to hear the voice of God clearly enough to trust it continually. But a few, a happy few, are well rehearsed, totally immersed and perfectly versed in the power of the INNER BIBLE. Let's join them!

09/03/2026

Here is some smelling salts that might help some wake up from the coma of literalism.

If I accused Jesus of being a mass ra**st (not to mention a mass killer of infants and children), I would be labeled a liar and blasphemer.

And rightfully so.

We all intuitively and instantly know Jesus is incapable of such evil. The Jesus of the Gospels would never command or sanction any such atrocities.

But I would never make such a monstrous allegation— EVER. In fact, one of my life’s passions is to expose as false ANY reading of Scripture which projects such slanderous evils on Jesus’ nature.

And yet, those loud literalists who demand we must only and always read the Old Testament by the dead letter are painting a picture of Jesus as a child killing ra**st.

Think I’m exaggerating? If you read by the flat text, God actually confesses, in the first person no less, to commanding and causing the mass murders of infants and children, along with the mass r**e of Babylonian women.

I believe those who advocate such a literal, dead letter, flat text reading of the Old Testament haven’t .... ever .... actually .... read it. At least not all of it. Karl Barth did actually read the entire Old Testament, which explains his declaration that, “I love the Bible far too much to always read it literally.”

So, IS Jesus a despicable ra**st? Does He belong in the hall of shame from the “Me Too” movement with all the other notorious ra**sts and sexual predators?

Of course not.

But, this is why our hermeneutic of the Old Testament is so important. if we choose to read the Old Testament literally, our answer has to be, "YES, Jesus IS a child killing, infant bashing ra**st.” As the fundamentalist slogan goes, “The Bible says it, that settles it, and I believe it.”

But, if we instead read the Old Testament Christologically, then our answer is a resounding, "NO! Our sweet savior Jesus would never harm a child or endorse any r**e. That’s blasphemy.”

And yet, and yet, and yet----- Isaiah 13:13-16 says (quoting God in the first person) that God's "burning wrath" causes women to to be r**ed.

So what's the point? Merely this. If we won't accept the "r**e confession" as coming from the lips of Jesus, then mustn’t dare accept any OTHER Old Testament quote as coming directly from Jesus' lips IF it portrays His Father as being a plague-sending, famine-bringing, fire-flinging, bone-crushing, child-drowning, throat-slitting, homicidal, genocidal, and infanticidal God.

However, strict Biblical literalists must believe that God's "burning wrath" "hunts" us down and directly CAUSES:

--mass r**e of Babylonian women,
--mass murder of Babylonian infants by bashing them to pieces against the rocks,
--mass murder of male children by “mercilessly” impaling them with arrows,
—mass ex*****on of male adults.

“‘I MYSELF...SUMMONED MY WARRIORS ...to EXECUTE MY ANGER....The LORD of hosts IS MUSTERING AN ARMY FOR BATTLE. They come from a distant land...the LORD AND THE WEAPONS OF HIS INDIGNATION, to DESTROY THE WHOLE EARTH. Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; it will come like DESTRUCTION FROM THE ALMIGHTY!....See, the DAY OF THE LORD COMES, CRUEL, WITH WRATH AND FIERCE ANGER, to make the earth a desolation, and to DESTROY ITS SINNERS from it....I WILL PUNISH THE WORLD for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity.... I will make mortals more rare than fine gold....Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at THE WRATH OF THE LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce anger. Like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with no one to gather them, all will turn to their own people, and all will flee to their own lands. Whoever is found will be THRUST THROUGH, and whoever is caught will fall by the SWORD. Their INFANTS will be DASHED TO PIECES before their eyes; their HOUSES will be PLUNDERED, and their WIVES RAVISHED. See, I AM STIRRING UP the Medes AGAINST them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold. Their BOWS will SLAUGHTER the YOUNG men; they will have NO MERCY on the FRUIT of the WOMB; their eyes WILL NOT PITY CHILDREN.'” Isaiah 13:3-18.

The above statement literally claims to be the Lord talking in first person, so we can't say anybody else is exaggerating or misstating His character. Nor can we cop out by saying that God was just this way on this one occasion because the Lord "changes not." (Malachi 3:6). Either this "child-impaling-malice" and "woman-raping evil" is in His nature now and forever-- or it isn't-- it's that simple.

And once we have been honest and horrified with the above passage, then let’s move to another passage where the r**e victims are Israelites (not Babylonians) against whom the Old Testament Lord gathers all the nations against to sexually and physically assault.

“And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the city.” (Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)

It gets so tiresome hearing literalists bang their drums while ignoring passages like these. Will literalists own this passage and just admit that their brittle, spiritless, and caveman hermeneutic makes God out to be a child-killing, r**e-committing, man-impaling killer? Or, will they continue to hide behind silly euphemisms that these brutal acts are just part of God's "mysterious ways," His "higher ways," His "justice and holiness" being dispensed?

Do we really want to go here, to this dark corner of primitive savagery? I think not.

Instead, let's choose a better hermeneutic. Let's choose Jesus as our hermeneutic. His flawless nature is written in all our consciences, waiting to be consulted and catalyzed into love. (See below comments for more).

09/01/2026

Jesus doesn’t bend the knee to Scripture.

Scripture bends its interpretive knee to Jesus.

08/30/2026

The hermeneutic of Origen Adamantius, the original “man of steel,” was one of prayer which sought divine input before proposing human output as to the best and brightest meanings of Scripture.

“The growing dissatisfaction of current scholars with the meagre results produced by the use of modern analytic categories to explain early Christian exegesis calls for developing alternate analyses.

Recent studies in ancient philosophy indicate how Origen’s practice of biblical interpretation can be understood to be an essential aspect of the mind’s ascetical training.

Rather than evaluating Origen’s conclusions, we are better off situating his interpretive efforts within his overall style of inquiry and engaging with him in the intellectually demanding meditational practices he advocated.

Faced with the mental, physical, and political impediments that constrain the human mind, Origen’s exegetical enterprise was a daring form of reasoning about the nature of things.

By using the words and images of scripture as a material path for its travels, Origen contended that the mind, through various practiced mental inquiries, could be led to what would otherwise be beyond its scope of vision.

In this way, for Origen, scriptural interpretation is drawn into prayer’s fundamental itinerary from the world’s material surface, to matters of the soul, and eventually to the Spirit insight.” ~~ “Rethinking the Rationales for Origen’s Use of Allegory,” by Paul R. Kolbet

08/30/2026

Our theology gets bigger as our image of God gets bigger.

When I FIRST embraced the Lord, I could not imagine His salvation was for all.

Mainly, this was because everywhere I Iooked I could see that so very many ignored Him, maligned Him, blamed Him, defied Him, and disobeyed Him. I just could see no way for them to ever find God’s salvation in this life, much less the next. In my hubris, I thought I was part of a special remnant, a small band of the faithful who alone would enter heaven.

But then a funny thing happened to me.

I got to actually know and grow in the Spirit of Christ. I saw that it wasn’t really at all about what I perceived or thought in my narrow and reactive mindset. Rather, it was about WHO and WHAT God was at the core of His being. And that core was Jesus...
..a good Shepard who leaves the found “ninety-nine” to go after the lost “one,”..a hero who bravely stands against bloodthirsty mobs seeking to stone the guilty,..a worker of spontaneous and spectacular cures in impossible situations, ..a teacher who taught forgiveness and blessing toward all our enemies, ..the express essence of a God of light, lightness, and love.

NOW, I can’t imagine His salvation is NOT for all.

I have grown to have more faith in God’s ability, through Jesus, to woo and win us than in our ability to evade and reject His love.

We simply aren’t that strong.

Sure we can withstand His beckoning Spirit for a season, an epoch, even a lengthy age by all human standards...... but resisting His indefatigable goodness forever and ever? Are we really that strong-willed?

Or maybe, just maybe, we need to get over ourselves and just admit that God is ultimately irresistible.

08/29/2026

Jesus is the God of the counter obvious…

He routinely pushes all His chips to the center of the table on the unlikeliest of long shots…
He always relishes favoring the foolish things to confound the earthly wise…
He is ever on the plan of daring and caring .

He leaves the 99 to go after 1.
Every 1. Everyone.
He doesn’t just beat the odds.
He laughs at them.
So don’t tell Jesus the odds.
He doesn’t care.
He lives odds free.
He has already beat them.
All of them.
Into the ground.
And into the dust.

Just look at the twinkle in His cosmic eye.
Return His wink and trust Him.
He never saw a long shot He didn’t lunge at.
All of us are long shots.
So, when things seem unlikely, improbable, and difficult, get ready…

Jesus has loaded His dice… with love and light.
GOD wins!
Love wins!
Light wins!

08/28/2026

Avoid these two theological acronyms like the plague.

The reason?

They ARE plagues. They seek to infect, debilitate, and harden our hearts to the goodness of God.

ECT (Eternal Conscious Torment: God eternally tortures and torments those who dare displease Him during their finite earthly lives).

PSA (Penal Substitutionary Atonement: God brutally killed Jesus so He wouldn’t have to brutally kill us).

What are we— conceptual cavemen grunting out our barbaric theology in primitive tones, acronymistic growling, and violent imagery?

Instead, let’s grow up and bring some tender nuance, caring compassion, and enlightened epiphany to the spiritual table. God deserves so much more investment of thought than this bloodthirsty bunk.

Dear God, it gets so sickeningly old and nauseatingly outdated. It’s time to trade up for an upgraded and worthier view of God.

(And of course the third acronym of doom, TULIP, is another terrifying topic for another day.)

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