Here are the long and short versions for reading the Christmas story on Christmas Eve: Read these in order for the scripture reading of the Christmas story Short Version The Annunciation                                   Luke 1:26-1:50 From the Birth of Jesus to Nazareth     Matthew 1:18-2:23 The Birth of Jesus                                    Luke 2:1-20 Long Version Luke 1:5-1:80      Elizabeth and Zechariah; The Annunciation; John the Baptist Matt. 1:18-1:25    The Angel

The A.I answer: "According to John Locke, murder is wrong because it is a violation of the natural law . This law is discoverable by reason and teaches that all people, being equal and independent, have a duty to preserve their own life and, as much as possible, the rest of mankind."  Further: " God's Property: Locke posits that individuals are the "workmanship" of God and are His property. As such, people do not have the absolute right to destroy themselves or others, as th

Mark A. McDonald Chapter I: Psychology and Modern Science Psychology is the account or reasoning about the psyche: the life, soul or consciousness, including the thought or mind. The Oxford dictionary definition of Psychology is “The science of the nature, functions and phenomenon of the human soul.” There are many weighty attempts to deny the existence or causal significance of the soul. But we say, “It is that in which you are considering this question.” And the soul is th

Preface To “Toward a Philosophic Psychology” It may be that humans are incapable of the study and healing of the soul, or that psychiatry is in practice impossible because we are not capable of it. This problem may be at the root of the contemporary crisis of psychiatry and the failure in general of modern psychology to improve much upon the traditions for the common care of souls. At present, most practitioners arising from the medical background, and taking on a 2 year stud

I should try to keep track and write out the things that Missler has added to my study of Revelation, especially from the Old Testament and his knowledge of Hebrew. I will try to spell these out as I get clarity and time. Many points that I thought I had uniquely, though, he knows. His school (The Hal Lindsay school) is wrong about the Horsemen, though! While he is non-denominational," his school is the Baptist, and he knows of the Sir Robert Anderson reading of the 490 days

In Progress. Preface: On Oaths I am not a Mason, nor a professor at a Catholic college, having given priority to the saying of Jesus, ..."do not swear at all" (Matthew 5:34). Hence, we will not bind ourselves by oaths of fidelity, obedience or secrecy. Thomas Jefferson, too was not a Mason, because he would not swear an oath. Madison in his remonstrance gives the reason, too: What we owe to God, we cannot give to men. That said, the Catholics and the Masons were the two group

The works of the ancient philosophers which remain for us have barely escaped the ravages of time and war, through two thousand years of luck and careful diligent preservation. Most have perished through the hostility and neglect of mankind. We may not appreciate what it means, for example, that the thought of the Western world developed without direct access to Plato’s Politea, or “Republic .”   The Republic  was not even available in Latin until late in the fifteenth centur

With a program adding the 10 or 15 greatest books on the soul to a curriculum of psychology and psychiatry, the science can be reset on a Socratic, rather than as now on a presocratic basis. An attempt to identify and read these would seem an obvious requirement for those supposed to have a knowledge of the soul that allows them to heal or to treat troubled persons authoritatively. But the very strange circumstance must be admitted: our psychiatry does not even attempt to stu

In progress: How to regard or deal with evil in therapy is very difficult and challenging. As Peck teaches, these people do not come to therapy for self improvement, as in the most fundamental sense they are not self critical (p. 66;150). Therapy is more likely to see the victims- such as the inner division resulting from the violation of the fundamental human sexual prohibitions, causing the inner division in personality called dissociative disorder of "schizophrenia." As sa