Holyman Preter
A New Golden Rule?
Submitted by Holyman Preter on December 31, 2022
Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay It’s not uncommon to find, in modern literature, the call for a new Golden Rule. But do we ... Read more
How Do You View Jesus?
Submitted by Holyman Preter on November 18, 2022
Image by 4222320 from Pixabay I view Jesus and Christ as two separate beings, the first human-born, the second nonphysical and divine, who became as ... Read more
Enlightenment And Gnosis: An Inquiry Into Experiential Religion
Submitted by Holyman Preter on October 27, 2022
Image by rolffimages from http://123rf.com The study of mystical religious experience was introduced into psychological studies in the late nineteenth century. Curiously, this somewhat novel ... Read more
Are Disasters God’s Retribution?
Submitted by Holyman Preter on June 24, 2022
Image by Dina Dee from Pixabay It’s been a time of calamities. Some people seem to think this is divine retribution for the sins of ... Read more
The Parting Of The Red Sea – Did It Happen?
Submitted by Holyman Preter on April 17, 2022
http://tenor.com The biblical text (Exodus 14:21) reads as follows: “Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back ... Read more
Satan’s Finger
Submitted by Holyman Preter on February 27, 2022
Derivative Images Every day there is relentless coverage in the press about the Russian army and its current occupation of Ukraine complete with bombs, destruction ... Read more
Look And Live
Submitted by Holyman Preter on February 13, 2022
By James Tissot – http://www.wcg.org/images/tissot/tissnake.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7095651 According to the Hebrew Bible, when the Israelites got to complaining about their wilderness wanderings, God sent ... Read more
What Is Hell, Exactly? What And Where Is Heaven?
Submitted by Holyman Preter on January 21, 2022
Image by ufukgazi from Pixabay “This is hell” we might proclaim, midway through a boot camp session or a punishing work deadline. We don’t, of ... Read more
What a 16th-Century Mystic Can Teach Us About Making Good Decisions
Submitted by Holyman Preter on January 3, 2022
By Art.co.uk, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7131892 Decision-making is a complex process. As individuals, working through our daily lives, we often take a number of shortcuts thatmay ... Read more
To Tree, Or Not To Tree?
Submitted by Holyman Preter on December 15, 2021
Derivative Images Traditionally, for Christian-Jewish families – or at least in writing about them – the month of December is referred to as a “dilemma.” ... Read more