The Left-Brain’s Conspiracy Against Spiritual Rest
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by Matthew Sabatine
6M ago
This offers some commentary on John Mark Comer's book called The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry in combination with Iain McGilchrist's work on the spiritual implications of the differences between the left and right hemispheres of the brain ..read more
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Disturbed Self-Processing Does Not Disprove Out-Of-Body Experiences (OBEs)
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by Matthew Sabatine
7M ago
Image credits belong to: William Farlow (@frozen_warmth) | Unsplash Photo Community Previous related article: Materialism is Contradicted by Medically Verifiable Statements from Out-of-Body Experiences — The Common Caveat Previous related article: Physicalism is Unsupported by Similarities Between Drugs and Near-Death Experiences — The Common Caveat “So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.” 2 ..read more
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Committing to Jesus During the Decline of American Christianity
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by Matthew Sabatine
8M ago
Image credits belong to: Edward Cisneros (@everythingcaptured) | Unsplash Photo Community In a recent podcast episode, minister and popular conference speaker John Bevere discusses a discovery he made in March 2022. He found a Barna report on the statistics of Christians in America. John says that 95,000 people were examined through a series of questions, and it was concluded that 1 in 10 of Americans (30 million) have walked away from the Christian faith since the 2000s.  John believes that these former Christ-followers had to be sincere in their faith at one time, since they never en ..read more
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God After Deconstruction by Thomas Jay Oord and Tripp Fuller
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by Matthew Sabatine
8M ago
Image credits belong to: Brad Weaver (@bweaver)Unsplash Photo Community This is a review on the book titled God After Deconstruction by Thomas Jay Oord and Tripp Fuller.  This review will focus on chapter 1: Causes of Deconstruction and chapter 2: Certainty Crumbles. The impressions you gather from this review are not intended to deter you from reading the book. I only want to paint a picture of what you should expect. I encourage everyone to still read the book to inform me of any potential mistakes I have made. Who is Thomas Jay Oord? Author Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian and phi ..read more
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Materialism is Contradicted by Medically Verifiable Statements from Out-of-Body Experiences
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by Matthew Sabatine
9M ago
Image credits belong to: National Cancer Institute (@nci)Unsplash Photo Community Read previous related article: Physicalism is Unsupported by Similarities Between Drugs and Near-Death Experiences — The Common Caveat This article on near-death experiences (NDEs) and out-of-body experiences (OBEs) is influenced by a 2 Corinthians 5:6-8 framework: “So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.” N ..read more
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Doing Good vs Being Good: A Reflection on Christian and Secular Claims
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by Matthew Sabatine
9M ago
Image credits belong to: Philippe Oursel (@ourselp)Unsplash Photo Community Read the first article in this series: Moral Processing in the Brain is Not an Ontological Origin for Morality — The Common Caveat “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” Romans 3:23-24  Can we be good without God?  If a person is good, while lacking belief in God or any divinity, he/she has no fear of supernatural punishment in response to their intended or unintended failure to be good. So, it s ..read more
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Moral Processing in the Brain is Not an Ontological Origin for Morality
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by Matthew Sabatine
9M ago
Image credits belong to: Priscilla Du Preez ?? (@priscilladupreez) | Unsplash Photo Community “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” Romans 3:23-24  All humans are imperfect and can be found guilty of that moral imperfection, at any point in time. Humanity cannot achieve perfection by its own clever inventions, alone. Humanity needs help.  That aligns with the foundational principles of Christianity that trace back to the time of the New Testament, two-thousand yea ..read more
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Physicalism is Unsupported by Similarities Between Drugs and Near-Death Experiences
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by Matthew Sabatine
10M ago
Image credits belong to: Piron Guillaume (@gpiron) | Unsplash Photo Community 2 Corinthians 5:8-9’s words about being “absent from the body and present with the Lord” tells me that, one day, I will draw my last breath and leave behind a shell of my existence. Who has not encountered the topic of near-death experiences at least once in their lifetime? Since our bodies will die someday, this is the go-to topic for those who are asking, “Is there an afterlife? And will getting there be smooth-sailing or a hellish ride?”   What comes to mind when you hear the words “near-death experi ..read more
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Review of The Creation of Self: A Case for the Soul by Joshua Farris
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by Matthew Sabatine
11M ago
Image credits belong to: Ben White (@benwhitephotography) | Unsplash Photo Community Whenever the mathematician and metaphysician Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) is mentioned in books on neuroscience and the brain (at least the ones I have read), the authors apparently want to distance themselves from him. He is like the plague. Today, Descartes is seen as responsible for Cartesian dualism. If you are speaking to an audience of materialists who argue that the soul is a religious fiction, a defense of dualism amounts to intellectual suicide.  But maybe I have nothing to lose from showing ..read more
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The Latest Wound Healing Research is Evidence Against Materialism
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by Matthew Sabatine
1y ago
Image credits belong to: Greg Rakozy (@grakozy)Unsplash Photo Community “In Him we live and move and have our being.” ~ Acts 17:28 The connections between the subjective aspects of the mind and the solid states of the body are hotly debated within materialism (i.e., mental states are the results of material interactions) and consciousness studies. It seems to me that some or many materialists may be able to reconcile their non-spiritual philosophy of mind (an emergent property of physical processes) with the reciprocal influences of the mind on the body and the body on the mind. As a ..read more
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