Yesterday, here, I put to rest the doctrine of Original Sin and the need for the Substitutionary Theory of the Atonement, or any need for atonement as a way of helping God get over the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, which never existed at any time anywhere in the historyContinue reading “January 22, 2026”
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January 21, 2026
No one can sin for another, or atone for another’s sin. Psalms 49:7 — No one can redeem the life of another, or give to God a ransom for them. Deuteronomy 24:16 — Parents are not to be put to death for their children’s (sin), nor children put to death for their parents’ (sin)– eachContinue reading “January 21, 2026”
January 20, 2026
Liz Sisson died when she was 16 in a nighttime single car crash that two of her friends walked away from. Eddie Stanton died when he was 28 in a private airplane crash because the plane was overweighted and didn’t make it over the trees at the end of the runway. Several of his fellowContinue reading “January 20, 2026”
January 19, 2026
Jesus wasn’t a Christian, but he was a Gnostic. And all of his teachings came straight from his Secret Knowledge in the here, now of his time and place. Gnosis , Psyche, Tao, Intuition–the terms all mean the same thing: Secret Knowing. Everyone who knows, who has ever known, knows the same things. Jesus spoke toContinue reading “January 19, 2026”
January 18, 2026
The Way of the Tao is the way of water seeking its own level, which has nothing to do with what water wants. Water doesn’t want anything. Water just does what its circumstances call for. This is the First Lesson of the Tao: What does wanting know? What is being asked of us? Here, now?Continue reading “January 18, 2026”
January 17, 2026
The middle of the road is hard to find. Extremism is everywhere. Somewhere somebody is protesting kids selling lemonade in front of their house. Opinions are fueling counter opinions. Circumstances are begetting circumstances like never before. Somebody thinks zazen cushions cause brain cancer. If you are not an activist your neighbors will march on yourContinue reading “January 17, 2026”
January 16, 2026
A Philosophy of Health by Jim Dollar A healthy lifestyle is more than eating well and exercising. It includes how we set limits, draw lines, establish boundaries—and bear the pain of living within the within the environment of everybody else on the planet doing the same thing. The way we live has implications for usContinue reading “January 16, 2026”
January 15, 2026 – B
Gnosis/Psyche/Tao constitute the base/foundation of the Self. Of each of us. Of everyone. Of life itself. We can think our way to the base/foundation of the Self, of ourselves, and that’s as far as we can go. There are no words for anything beyond that. No vocabulary. And we can barely experience what we cannotContinue reading “January 15, 2026 – B”
January 15, 2026
What is money for? How much money is enough? After that, what? What keeps us going? Why? For what? Why do we keep going? For me, it is to see what’s next. To see what happens. To see what is called for. To see what I do about it. I am the mystery I keepContinue reading “January 15, 2026”
January 14, 2025
I’m Jim Dollar and I’m here to help people find their life and live it in a “Who am I and what am I about?” kind of way. I spent 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., serving congregations in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina, and picking up pointers along the way.Continue reading “January 14, 2025”
January 13, 2026
Our “Gnostic within” is our intuitive inner guide that first appeared as Gnosticism, “secret, inner knowing” following Jesus’ execution in the first century CE. Intuition has been with us always but was taken to be “the voice of God” early on. Plato (428-348 BCE) and others after him up to Carl Jung, and others afterContinue reading “January 13, 2026”
January 12, 2026
There is what we control and what we do not control. Adjusting ourselves to the things we do not control is the most important trick in the entire Book of Tricks. How well we do that tells the tale. There is how things are and how we think about how things are, the way weContinue reading “January 12, 2026”
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