BIG QUESTIONS
They can be the beginning of understanding.
A PLACE TO BEGIN
Cornerstone 1131 is built around the belief that serious questions deserve serious attention. Scripture, reason, history, human experience, and faith all have something to contribute to the search for Truth.
This page is intended to help readers begin with the question that brought them here and then move directly into the reflections that explore it.
EXPLORE
Jesus tells Nicodemus, “Ye must be born again.” What does spiritual birth mean? What kind of identity comes from God? And what does Eternal Life mean if it is more than simply continuing to exist?
Read Manifestation, New Birth, and the Inheritance of Eternal Life →Deuteronomy begins the Shema with a command: “Hear, O Israel.” Why does hearing come first? And why does Jesus return again and again to the question of whether people truly hear?
Read Hear: The Word of the Kingdom →Jesus speaks of the “word of the kingdom.” The Kingdom is not merely information to be studied from a distance. It is something proclaimed, received, understood, and allowed to become fruitful in human life.
Read Hear: The Word of the Kingdom →Hebrews 11 presents Faith as more than belief in an idea. Faith moves. Faith obeys. Faith acts when the whole outcome cannot yet be seen.
Read The Fearlessness of Faith →Hope is often confused with wishing. Romans 8 presents something stronger: the spiritual ability to live inside an unfinished story without surrendering to despair.
Read Hope: The Strength to Wait →Fear can protect the body, but what happens when Fear begins to govern the soul and imagination? Can Faith and Fear become competing authorities within the human life?
Read Fear →Before asking what we should believe, we have to ask what is real. How much of Reality can be known through the senses? What place do body, breath, soul, consciousness, and God have in the human search for what is Ultimate?
Read Reality →Cornerstone 1131 does not begin with the assumption that sincere inquiry is dangerous to faith. If something is true, it should not need protection from honest examination.
Begin with Why Cornerstone 1131 Exists →Prayer can begin in gratitude, need, sorrow, awe, repentance, or silence. But beneath all of these is a deeper movement: the human soul turning toward God.
Read Prayer — The Shema and the Our Father →What does it mean to hear a Voice of Eternal Truth among the many voices competing for human attention? How do we distinguish what shapes the soul from what merely passes through the mind?
Read The Pure Language →A PLACE TO BEGIN
Begin with the question. Listen. Consider. Test what you hear. Follow the Truth as honestly as you can. And bring your questions with you.
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