The Unexpected Story No One Would Write Christmas is very odd! If you were inventing a religion to reveal the heart of God, or at least your specific god, to capture hearts and change the world, you wouldn’t start in a cave that smelled of animals. You wouldn’t choose a teenage peasant girl as your…
Tag Archives: God
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Can the Bible be trusted, or did Christians corrupt it after Islam arose? This question lies at the heart of Christian-Muslim dialogue. Islamic scholars claim the Bible was falsified (taḥrīf) to hide prophecies about Muhammad and insert doctrines like the Trinity and Christ’s deity. But what if this entire theory was systematically destroyed and Islam…
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The message of the Bible is the Christian Gospel – it’s one of hope, grace, and transformation. At its core, the Gospel answers life’s most profound questions: Why are we here? What went wrong? How can it be made right? And what happens after death? Which way to heaven? Within the biblical framework, the Gospel…
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What is the nature of moral values? Are moral values objective or subjective? What does that distinction mean for the argument for God? As it turns out, probing into the nature of moral values leads us to ask some very interesting follow-up questions. Ultimately, one would have to contend with the moral argument for the…
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Who was Jesus? We know of the moral teachings of Jesus. But was Jesus nothing more than just a good moral teacher? Christians claim Jesus is God. Jews claim Jesus was an imposter and not the Messiah. Some skeptics claim Jesus never even existed. How can we reason about who Jesus was?
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‘There are thousands of religions. How can you be so egotistical as to think that your religion is the right one?‘ Do people who ask this have a legitimate gripe? Many people believe that since there are many potential options, that, therefore, there is no right answer – with people holding to this notion in…
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People usually ask, “how could a good and loving God send people to hell?” Wrong question. Ask again. The right question is this: how could a loving person send themself to hell? Does that sound strange? Good. It’s meant to. We need a shift in perspective to understand the dynamic between God and man.
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We are alive and we continue to live because our universe is delicately balanced to allow it. The fine-tuning of the universe provides a very compelling case for the existence of God. The argument for God from the fine-tuning of the universe has multiple layers – both from the fine-tuning of any possible life in…
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The universe demonstrates a level of fine-tuning that is absolutely astonishing. As a matter is a mere happenstance, it is extremely implausible. The conditions under which any life may exist in the universe requires extreme precision. The conditions under which intelligence physical life may exist in the universe requires even more precision. Here, I detail…
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Why would God allow evil? Why would God allow catastrophes? Why would God allow suffering? So many ‘why’ questions, so little time to answer them. Wait! Can we answer them? Do we need to answer them? Asking why God would do x is crazy! I suppose we can just speculate. However, using these ‘why’ questions…
