It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God. — Stephen Hawking 142 Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us. — Michelangelo 139 I just tried to create a...
Again, I know this is not a real popular piece of revelation being given to us by the Lord, but as you will see in the Scripture verses I will list below, this is one of the main reasons that God will allow a certain amount of adversity to come our way in this life from time to...
Prayer That Echoes God: Why There Is So Much Scripture in the LiturgyTHE HISTORIAN of liturgy Hughes Oliphant Old once observed that "prayer, particularly Christian...Winner, Lauren F
God asks questions in large part for the same reason humans ask questions: the desire for relationship. Commands and declarations create monologues, but only questions can create dialogues. Think of young children who ask the same questions over and over; these budding dialogues are attempts to bo...
Reading from the perspective of a christian, this book seems to be far more secular in its approach to the meaning of scripture and faith. Interwoven with personal stories, often tragic and devastating, this book recounts how religion has long been there to fill the spiritual and emotional nee...
s statement that God did not necessarily create the universe. Their arguments were weak, petty, and often showed little to no understanding of science. They even sometimes misquoted Hawking in order to set up a "straw man" to knock down. The rebuttals boiled down to, “God exists because...
“God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”By sacrificing himself for us on the cross, he took the punishment for all of our sins at once. This made him the ultimate sacrifice —once and for all ...
The “god did it” or “god of the gaps” argument has probably been around since humans first started creating gods. It's the basic premise behind all the “scientific” arguments for the existence of a god. Here's what the logic looks like when applied to two common weather phenomena:...
“God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”By sacrificing himself for us on the cross, he took the punishment for all of our sins at once. This made him the ultimate sacrifice —once and for all ...
The first point of light: God is not the creator of evil and suffering. This answers the question you hear so often: “Why didn’t God merely create a world where tragedy and suffering didn’t exist?” The answer is: He did! Genesis 1:31 says: “God saw all that he had made, ...