Biblical Heritage Center Blog

The July issue of the Biblical Heritage Center newsletter -- Creating Safer Better Lives By Discovering Ourselves & Our Biblical Heritages – is now online. It contains the following articles and July Memorials. Once upon a time a minister, professor and rabbi took a journey. . . The title sounds like the beginning of a good joke, but it isn’t. It is proof that people with different biblical heritages can work together to tackle religious issues that most people try to avoid. I am the minister, Ike Tennison is the professor and Jeffrey Leynor is the rabbi. I have been on this journey for over thirty-five years now. Ike joined it about thirty years ago when I enrolled in a course in Classical Greek he was teaching at the University of Texas at Arlington. Jeffrey became part of our journey a little over twenty-five years ago when I enrolled in a course he was teaching about the Prophets at the Jewish Community Center in Dallas. The Forgotten Father: The Man that Raised ...

The opening chapters of Genesis reveal that the highest value and top priority of the Creator of the Heavens and Earth is human life . They teach that all people are created with the spirit of the Creator, meaning with the Spirit of the Creator . Humans reveal the Creator’s Spirit to members of their generation by doing thing that measure up to the Creator’s TOV Standard – acts that protect life, preserve life, make life for functional and increase the quality of life . Religious institutions disconnected from real life or salvation doctrines that require people to believe someone’s “ right theologies ” were not part of the Creator’s plan. See the complete blog at https://therealyesua.blogspot.com/2017/07/gods-love-isnt-about-warm-fuzzy-feelings.html

Historically, Protestant Christianity was decisive in forming western civilization as we know it, especially in the United States. You can’t imagine modern individualism, democracy, or freedoms without it – and it has given us some other legacies which we might not like so much. But it’s not just a subject of historic interest. There are a billion Protestants in the world today, and in Africa, China, Latin America and other places the numbers are rising fast. Protestantism is going to be one of the key forces shaping the world this century, and we’d better understand it. The first Protestants didn’t set out to create the world we live in now, but some key features of that world come directly from them. The ideal of free inquiry  and free speech; the assumption that we’ve got a right to challenge our rulers, and that in spiritual terms we’re all equal; and the notion of limited government, that there are freedoms of conscience over which no political authority has any jurisdict...