Theodicy attempts to resolve how a good God and evil world can coexist. The neo-atheist view in this debate has dominated recent bestseller lists through books like The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins), God Is Not Great (Christopher Hitchens), and The End of Faith (Samuel Harris). And their...
to lay down and roll on our backs in, the sheer bliss of being alive is what allows God to transform that vortex of darkness, greed, and hate through us. What evil and sin target and destroy is joy, because joy is
Good and evil – we all know the difference … or do we? It’s like black and white obviously … or do we prefer shades of grey? What do you think? Here’s what almost ... Near and Far Electric vehicles are becoming all the rage. Fine, but having experienced the mild panic of ...
Posted in Christian, Good and Evil | Tagged Grace, heaven, hell, Justice | Comments Off on Hell and Grace Placebo Posted on May 31, 2016 by dsholland Faith works, but that may lead to a conundrum. The fact that faith works is pretty well known. Medical practitioners have used this ...
And if evil is not an entity, or substance, it follows that it was not a part of God’s original creation. It consists instead in the going wrong of something that is in itself good, though also mutable. Augustine locates the origin of this going-wrong in the sinful misuse of freedom...
God is beyond good and evil. What we call good and bad is merely a human perspective. Cancer is bad because it kills man. But a successful surgeon is also bad because he kills cancer. This view was held by the great Prussian philosopher Hegel and by the Hindus. ...
- We must teach children that money has power for good and evil - Children need to know how to exercise authority over the spiritual power of money - Children need to learn that we should buy things because we "need" them, not because we "want" them ...
It declared that the Invocation of the Saints was good and useful, that all benefits come from God through the mediation of Jesus Christ, and that all superstition was to be put down (Session 25 ). The Church of England rejected the Invocation of the Saints as a fond (i.e. foolish)...
Christianity teaches the evilness of man, that he is a no-good, unworthy sinner, that he is born in sin and that his every instinct is evil. Communism preaches that the productive, creative element of our society, namely the “bourgeois” as they call them, is rotten...
1“Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them; 2 For their heart devises violence, And their lips talk of troublemaking.” Warning Against Envy This passage teaches a fundamental principle: the worthlessness of envying sinners and longing for theirseeminglycarefree and prosperous...