What Does It Take To Be A True Believer?

The Last Gospel; The World of Forced Moves This world is not my home, I'm just passing through. And though I may look like a member of the human race, I'm really just a prisoner of it. There was a time when I felt emotionally invested in humanity, a time when I was hungry, even ravenous...

A central theme throughout Jesus' example of living, and one that His true disciples will obey, is to suffer evil rather than to do it, and to be killed rather than to be one of those that kill. That any attempt to resist, avenge, or preemptively do violence to others before something gets done...

When one cannot know, one must believe. Both information and belief may be accurate or not, true or false. How can one ever be certain what they are informed of or believing is true or false, permanent or temporary? I'm reasonably sure that many intelligent people think they actually know that...

In Acts 17:24-28 Paul says: “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else...

Concupiscence ("con"-from latin meaning "with" + cupisce from latin meaning "desire") Concupiscence is the tendency of humanity to misuse the natural survival needs of the physical body. Therefore, the natural need of the body for food becomes gluttony, the command to procreate becomes sexual...