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What Was God Thinking?!
By Daniel Raphael, Ph.D.

Winner of the 2003 Colorado Independent Publishers for “Spiritual/Inspiration” Award.

This book describes in logical and easy to read language two theologies: a “Loving-God Theology” and a “Pre-Creation Theology.” Later chapters describe how religious organizations can validate evolving revelation that is attendant to the existence all God-centered religions. 170 p., soft cover, 5.5x8.5” format

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Table of Contents:

I. We Have a Personal Relationship

Introduction
1 Questions and Answers about God and Creation
2 Questions and Answers about Religion and Churches
3 Questions and Answers about God and Jesus
4 Questions and Answers about Our Relationship with God

II. I Am Who I Am, I AM LOVE

Introduction
5 Two Questions
6 Thinking Theologically

Part I: A LOVING-GOD THEOLOGY
Part II: THE LOVING-GOD CONCEPTS of JESUS
Part III: REVISING PAUL'S INTERPRETATION of JESUS' LIFE and DEATH

III. An Application for "Thinking Theologically"

7 Applying the Pre-Creation and Loving-God Theologies to Personal, Social, and Religious Issues

Part IV. A Jesusonian-Christian Religion

8 A Jesusonian-Christian Religion
9 Resources

APPENDIX: An Historical Perspective
Index

Excerpts:

Chapter 1

Questions and Answers about God and Creation

There are ultimate, universal realities that are eternally existent: 1) God exists; 2) God is love; 3) you are truly important to The Creator. Your existence is precious to God, and you are cherished every moment of your life. What this means is that God already has a personal and intimate relationship with you. God truly loves you, for only through you can God gain the experience of existence as a process of living. God cares for you and has provided a generous universe to support and assist you individually to have a meaningful and fulfilling life. There is no positive benefit for God when you suffer the harsh difficulties of life, but only when you overcome these difficulties with positive, constructive, and loving effort. Though you may challenge this eternal fact, that is the underlying reality of God's relationship to you and to each of us.

Chapter 2

Questions and Answers about Religions and Churches

1. How did religions and churches come into existence?

Long ago, and even today, people have looked into the depths of the astral heavens at night and asked the big questions: How did it all begin? What and who is God? Where do I fit in? This is the beginning of wonderment and discovering God outside and then the Presence of God within.

As in the beginning of all relationships, sometimes the going is rather rocky and uncertain, tentative and unsure, but if there is sincere searching for answers within, then Truth becomes discovered and the relationship deepens in meaning. God wants a personal relationship with each of us. It is best when the relationship is intimately personal, which is something Divine Fragments strive to achieve. Yet,….

Chapter 3

Questions and Answers about God and Jesus

1. Who is Jesus in relation to God?

You recall that The Creator has given other beings, in addition to human beings, the opportunity and ability to create.

There is an order of beings called Creator Sons, as I mentioned earlier, who have been delegated the powers of creation. They continue the creative embellishment of the universe that The Creator began. Because they are also administrators of inhabited planets, they are required to fully and completely understand the challenges of the human spiritual journey. To do so and to assume full sovereignty of their creative endeavors, they have seven bestowals to fulfill, the last being to take up the life of a material person on one of their created worlds. In this regard, Jesus did successfully take on this challenge.

Part II

Introduction

Chapters 5 and 6 are different from chapters 1 through 4, which were almost conversational in style. Chapters 5 and 6 use a "building block" style of logic to form a tremendously strong foundation for understanding who and what God is. These next chapters will help us understand why God gives us so much freedom, as described in the earlier chapters.

If you come from a traditional Christian background, the next two chapters will cause you to reflect upon your Christian beliefs. The "building block" style of presenting this material provides a simple clarity about who and what God really is that you may not have thought of before. The simple conclusions that are built upon this strong foundation are probably very different from the ones you were taught in your traditional Christian church.
Chapter 5 asks two questions about the traditional nature of God.
Chapter 6 has three parts that answer those questions.

Chapter 7

Applying the Pre-Creation and Loving-God Theologies to Personal, Social, and Religious Issues

The test of wholly consistent theologies is whether believers as well as theologians can apply them to address personal, social, and religious issues, and whether those results are internally consistent. Most theologies are usually not written in a manner that enable believers to easily interpret social and religious issues on their own. What is needed is a simple, easy-to-use process to apply theologies to issues with consistent outcomes. A final step is needed: educational programs that teach believers how to understand those theologies and apply them to interpret personal, social, and religious issues.
 

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