Understanding Biblical Passages About Women It’s a question that deserves an honest answer: Is the Bible sexist? For many people, both skeptics and believers, certain biblical passages about women are deeply troubling at face value. Commands for wives to “submit,” restrictions on women teaching, laws that seem to treat women as property, and stories of…
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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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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…
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“God is arbitrary!” he said. “You can’t even rationalize the existence of goodness if God exists. Either goodness is entirely arbitrary, or God is entirely arbitrary.” What kind of weird objection to God is this? This skeptic was offering an objection popularly referred to as the Euthyphro Dilemma.
