Tag Archives: bible

April 17- B, 2026

All religion worldwide (Cosmos-wide) throughout the ages is nothing more than collections of collections of projections of projections. Religion is projection. Religion is based on theology and theology is a collection of projections. “Revealed truth” is imagined truth, is Projected “truth.” Which has to be “taken on faith” because it has no actual, tangible, real,Continue reading “April 17- B, 2026”

April 16, 2026

Religions everywhere throughout time have all been grounded upon and expressive of the projections of those who created the religions. Religion is projection. As is practically everything else. We experience something internally and explain it by using a vocabulary based on external experiences. A volcano explodes and we explain it as the anger of theContinue reading “April 16, 2026”

April 07, 2026

The God Beams are the aspects of ordinary, everyday, reality that announce the presence of–the absolute truth of God in ways incapable of being experienced, understood, known in any other way. We know there is a God because we know of God through all these ways. These are the moments that are transparent to transcendenceContinue reading “April 07, 2026”

February 05, 2026

How we live in response to the vicissitudes of life tells the tale. IS the tale. Life happens and we respond. And that is all there is. We generally respond in light of what we want to happen. Wanting and wanting-not lead the way in determining how we live. We want life to be likeContinue reading “February 05, 2026”

January 22, 2026

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”

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”

December 26, 2025

This is #40 of “200 More Zen Thoughts From Jim Dollar #1” blog on WordPress: In the New Testament, we get to pick our God, and there is a wide variety from which to choose. I’m going with the God who is like the prodigal son’s father: “You were lost and now you are found!Continue reading “December 26, 2025”

November 24, 2025

You know Jesus’ instructions to “Pray always”? He was talking about creating a regular, on-going, uninterrupted conscious presence with our Psyche. Psyche is that which has always been called “God,”–especially before theology, doctrine, heaven and hell, etc. Which is to say, before the Church of Rome invented theology, doctrine, heaven and hell, etc. in theContinue reading “November 24, 2025”

November 20, 2025

The power of perspective cannot be overstated. How we see what we look at makes all the difference. And how we see when we look at our seeing–at what we see and how we evaluate it, so that we evaluate our evaluations–is the most important place to examine our perspective regarding how we are seeingContinue reading “November 20, 2025”

November 18, 2025

When I threw out theology all those years ago, I had to replace it with something that could serve as the core ground of existence, the “rock solid foundation” of who we are and what we are about, the Source of Life and Being. Initially, I referred to the bedrock of all that is “ThatContinue reading “November 18, 2025”

October 29, 2025

There is the God of theology, and there is “That Which Has Always Been Called God” beyond theology.Theology was invented by the Church of Rome over the 400 years between Jesus’ execution and the closing of the Canon which ended the amount of material that could be included in the Bible. The Church of RomeContinue reading “October 29, 2025”