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Welcome to Reflections!
Thank you for visiting. On this blog you will find a wealth of articles discussing important questions related to philosophy, religion and spirituality, as well as many personal reflections. The blog used to be called Perfect Chaos. Life can seem chaotic at times, but in reality all events unfold in accordance with the perfect will…
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God’s Grand Game Revisited
My interest in philosophical theology began around the same time I first read the Bible. I had already been through a meandering spiritual journey involving forays into meditation, psychology, and enlightenment schools of thought, as recalled in The Philosophy of a Mad Man, which was my first book, is autobiographical, and captures my journey towards…
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Thee
For a long time I have identified closely with the perspective of panentheism, but only by this definition: “Every created thing exists within God.” Panentheism means, literally, ‘all in God’. I have understood the ‘all’ to mean all of creation. I think that by my own definition this is correct. However, after the Lord led…
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Is God Matter and Energy?
Good day everyone, Are matter and energy pure consciousness — or the Great ‘I AM’ — in form and motion? There are no words that can adequately describe God. Our words can only ever point to the absolute, the all-sufficient, omnipresent and self-existing G O D As my beloved inspiration of a person T.D. Jakes…
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What Must I Do to Be Saved?
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. God did not…
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My Testimony So Far
Hello everyone, I have spent a long time obsessing over spiritual matters in my adulthood, because I take the warnings about Judgement Day and hell found in the Bible and the Qur’an very seriously. It has been a real challenge for me trying to reconcile my love for Jesus and the Bible with the Qur’an,…
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A Dream
Do not be troubled by what I write, for it is a personal experience not to be compared with your own experiences. Dreams are mysterious and wonderful. A few months ago, shortly before I went to sleep, I was a mess of emotions. I was so confused. Who exactly is Jesus? Is Jesus God? But…
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Lord of Mercy and Justice
I remember a few years ago when I first became aware of the vast scale of the corruption that is alleged to be happening among those in positions of power in the world. It was hard to stomach; that the world could be evil to the extent that I was reading about. Of course, we…
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Justice
In this article, I would like to write about justice from the perspective that God is in control of everything that happens, which is a key component of my philosophical worldview. God’s sovereignty over all events means that when a human being does something that is considered by a person or organisation to be wrong,…
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Free Will and Salvation
In this post I’m going to look at the heart of the gospel – the idea that we are sinners in need of salvation. Is this really true?
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‘The God Articles’ — Raw, Diverse, Philosophical, and Highly Enjoyable!
The first book I ever wrote was called The Philosophy of a Mad Man and in it I wrote about the explorative spiritual journey that eventually led me to read the Bible during a stay in psychiatric hospital and become a follower of Jesus Christ. A few years after becoming a Christian, I realised that…
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What’s Really Happening When We Pray?
I wonder whether you have considered how the idea of free will relates to the practice of prayer? When we pray, is it the case, in a sense, that God is causing us to pray to Him? This matter is discussed as one of a series of twelve contemplations that I offer in my latest…
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What Are Your Thoughts On Free Will?
I remember when I began to be fascinated with this subject, observing thoughts arising in my mind and wondering what in the world was going on. Have you stopped to think about what is causing your thoughts? Materialists solve the problem by arguing that our brains are like machines that power our thoughts, but this…
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When I’m Angry, I Pray For Justice
I’ve been praying to God to help me to understand the relationship between forgiveness and justice. When you are abused and mistreated perpetually it makes you extremely angry, and I think anger is a sign of maltreatment and injustice. Jesus said we should always forgive when we are wronged, and we must, but that doesn’t…
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My Reluctant Decision to Go ‘Digital Only’ With My Products
No doubt, we are living in a technocracy. Technology has revolutionised every aspect of our lives. This is something I’ve found hard to embrace, because although we may enjoy some aspects of the use of technology, I also feel it has had a profoundly damaging effect on societies around the world. As an author, I…
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I recently finished work on the follow-up to Reflections: Enlightening Insights Into the Divine Mystery and decided to give the new book the title Reflections+. This is because the book is very similar in presentation to Reflections and continues the theme of delving deep into the divine mystery through a series of concise and carefully-crafted…
About STEVEN
Steven Colborne is an author, musician and counsellor from the United Kingdom. On this blog he writes about philosophy, religion and spirituality and shares a variety of personal articles.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
