“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) But God did not create death, sorrow or pain when the earth was created. Continuing in the first chapter of Genesis it says “Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeedit wasvery good.” (Genesis 1...
Why would God create an imperfect world? In a word, for the sake of love; for the sake of people like me; the sake of love manifests as life transformation,, empathy, compassion, humility, agapē; love manifests in creating a better world and even building up the very kingdom of love...
In writings lovingly collected and edited by his wife Marie after his death, Paul E. Little explores the central question of Christianity: can we know God? By looking at the identity of Jesus Christ, his claims regarding his identity and his promises to his followers and inquirers, we ...
When Godgave us this wonderful gift, one can assume that he did not give us free choice for the purpose ofcreating evil. However, when God gave Adam and Eve free will, He allowed them to make theirown choice, good or bad. God understood that giving us free will allowed us to make ...
"If God's going to teach you real love, He's going to put you around unlovely people so that you have to learn to love. How is God going to teach you patience? By testing it. By irritation. By chaos. It's easy to be patient and at peace when everything's going your way, but...
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...
But here was Mitchell conceding that the brokenness of our world and our individual tribulations did in fact count against the existence of God, but not definitively. I would eventually conclude that Mitchell had won the philosophical debate years before I realized how much his humility in the ...
here be silent, and let the grace of God reign by Jesus Christ…What God promises, we ourselves do not through free will of human nature, but He Himself does by grace within us…Men labor to find in our own will something that is our own, and not God’s; how can they find it, ...
While there is truth with this answer, it really doesn’t answer the question. All it does it move the question back. If Jesus came at that time to fulfill prophesy, then why did God prophecy that Jesus would comeat that time? Why didn’t God move prophets to predict that Jesus would...
Why did God allow polygamy in the Old Testament? Was it not wrong then? Is it wrong now? We might think that polygamy was fine with God due to the fact that it is not strictly condemned in the narrative passages and is regulated in the Law. But if we consider what is said about it...