Reading Time: 3 minutesOk, here I am looking at the philosophical challenges of God’s existence (possible and probable). These are NOT arguments you would share with someone grieving, or hit by hard times. No, these are foundational arguments you probably need to know either prior or a while after a tragic event. I Read more…
Reading Time: 6 minutesEvil didn’t begin with human beings; evil began with the rebellion of Satan and other angelic beings. Although we know a little bit about how God is going to do with Satan scripture tells us very few details about how and why Satan rebelled against God. However there is a Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere are some funny views of heaven which, quite frankly, are just weird. Some have come from taking symbolism too far (like they have done for hell), other ideas about heaven are just alien altogether. In fact, some of the misconceptions are so bizarre that many Christians actually fear heaven. Read more…
Reading Time: 6 minutesYes. If there were no free will, why not take away suffering sooner since it’s all a game of chess where both teams are puppet masters? Now are there examples of free will in heaven? Yes, there was a war in heaven (Revelation 12:7). Also, with this free-will, why would Read more…
Reading Time: 9 minutesSo it has been said: Couldn’t God give us freedom but there be less evil? Well I’d like to ask a follow up question: How could God give humans free will yet not let them hurt each other? Saying this doesn’t make it true, could God do it better? Well Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutesDoes our free will justify the quantity of suffering? Firstly how do we define free-will? It is the ability to do other than you do. It is the ability to make self-determined or self-caused choices as opposed to having our choices determined or caused by someone or something else. If Read more…
Reading Time: 9 minutesThose who look at the problem of evil long enough sometimes come to the conclusion that perhaps there is only one problem of evil, hell. There are some in a position where they want to redefine hell, so it is a place of annihilation, so you don’t go on forever Read more…
Reading Time: 7 minutesSo a common objection that comes up is if those who are to be saved need to hear the Gospel, what about those who have never heard about it? Many sceptics say people on the judgement day, through no fault of their own, will be condemned because they lacked the Read more…
Reading Time: 6 minutesDid Jesus think there were good people? In Mark 10:18 someone calls Jesus good teacher, to which he responds “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.” (Jesus’ trick here is for them to reflect on their words, not the denial of his godly status, Read more…
Reading Time: 10 minutesA question we all ask, yet the answer is more complex than we’d ever imagined.