I think it is similar to Romans 8:28. God does not cause all things—but He does work in all things—even evil—so that good may result and His purposes may be accomplished. God works in everything for the praise of His glory. And that is the truth we see in Ephesians 1:12. Thi...
does not act from freedom of will" (Spinoza 186). Spinoza here further excludes will from God , and the problem of evil, which k can be taken as a manifestation of the human will, is here a vacuum for God. Spinoza's further explanation of this problem is that “some things exist in...
Third, although Jesus does not say this in Mark 4, this reading also evokes a warning: tobe careful about what kind of seeds we sow. The seeds Jesus refers to are corn and mustard. It is hard to believe Jesus would support the scattering of weed seeds – indeed, he spoke out against ...
He praised God for keeping his promise, blessed Mary and Joseph, and then spoke particularly to Mary, saying Jesus would cause some to rise and some to fall, he would be spoken against, the thoughts of many hearts would be revealed, and a sword will pierce your own soul too (Luke 2:2...
This does not mean, for example, that someone who takes an oath to a public service position does evil. (e.g. sheriff, fireman, physician, city councilman, etc) For the United States, at the very least, the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution offers protection of our God-given ...
, Why is the ‘cause’ a specific god?, Why can’t the universe be causeless too? and, most importantly, Why rule out all other possible explanations? It is fundamentally a ‘god of the gaps’ approach. Our current lack of understanding concerning the Universe’s origins does not ...
Does he want a *sincere* answer from these students? The conflict comes that one student (named Josh Wheaton... like uh, Joss Whedon, I guess for some reason) challenges the professor by not writing it, not because of any logic about how a classroom works, but because he's a ...
And the said king says of himself that he alone is god of the earth, for which reason if it rains when he does not wish it to do so, or is too hot, he shoots arrows at the sky for not obeying him.” The Mashona of Southern Africa informed their bishop that they had once had ...
God does not choose to save everyone or give to everyone the gift of faith. God is the sovereign judge of humanity, and chooses to reveal himself to some and not to others. Atheists are not atheists because they do not believe; atheists do not believe because God as hidden himself ...
Saying God is a universal spirit plays a crucial role in explaining why God cannot prevent the evil that creatures can sometimes prevent. (See also my essay, “The Spirit as Nonintervening and Noncoercive.”)To put it simply, God does not have a divine body with which to block evi...