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Guest Commentary: THE TEMPTATION OF CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER

By Phil Young, M.D. (Guest writer and missionary) To grasp fully the temptation involved in contemplative prayer, one needs to go back to the beginning and look at man’s first temptation, that of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and its implications. In Genesis chapter one, we are told that Adam and Eve … [Read more…]

Emerging Spirituality – Bridging the Gap between Good and Evil

by Roger Oakland  The serpent’s temptation of Eve in the Garden of Eden, that we can be like God, remains with mankind to this very day. Satan’s plan is to lessen or eliminate (he hopes) the gap between himself and God. The following explanation puts it well: It is important to understand that Satan is not … [Read more…]