Yet that is exactly what humans choose. God didn't introduce death into the equation; humanity did. God’s problem (and ours) is figuring out how to deal with it. God can’t pretend death isn’t there. He is lif
17But God hit Pharaoh hard because of Abram's wife Sarai; everybody in the palace got seriously sick. 18Pharaoh called for Abram, "What's this that you've done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she's your wife? 19Why did you say, 'She's my sister' so that I'd take her ...
Nietzsche held suffering sacred and believed in the eventual triumph of his work, which did not have a large audience in his lifetime. Even though he had numerous sufferings and sicknesses, he never lamented his hard fate; instead, he embraced his suffering joyfully as something “good ...
(1) Contrary to Zarathustra, Abraham (then still Abram) realized that God is One, which implies that creation is One as well: not in the sense that God equals the whole of creation (that's pantheism), nor in the sense that everything is One and distinctions are illusory (that would be...
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James, there is no difference in the theology of the thing. The difference had to do with the facts on the ground. When the Reformers were in the same position as the fathers of the early church, they behaved the same way. Tyndale went to a martyr’s death just like Polycarp did...