Thinking about the unexpected death of Anastasia.
All in Suffering
Ultimate Moral Laws and Logic
Are there any real moral laws? For those who in enjoy logic and rational thinking, here is a logical approach.
When someone asks me why God allows COVID 19 ...
Before we should expect an answer to why God allowed COVID 19, it can be helpful to reflect on who we are actually dealing with when we wish to know why God allows this or that.
On the Death of a Child
Thoughts on the question, “Why does God allow children to die?”
The Destruction of the Canaanites: Why God *Must Sometimes Destroy Civilizations and Cultures
If we grant the atheist’s premise that God cannot permit gratuitous evil in this world, then what happens when a culture or an entire civilization becomes a gratuitous evil?
Why We Have No Idea What God Should Allow
Every event, no matter how small, causes an exponentially increasing number of consequences, spreading to countless causal chains in future history to the end of time. The result it that we are in no position at all to judge what God should, and should not, allow.
Finding healing in the face of overwhelming grief
Although I have found many excellent online resources for coping with grief, almost none of them mention what I have found to be the two most important things that have been enormously helpful for me.
Why a Perfectly Just God Will Seem Unjust
Since we judge other people according to our own sense of justice, when we disagree with another person’s sense of justice, they will appear unjust to us. If our sense of justice is not perfect, we are likely to disagree with some aspects of perfect justice. Therefore, a perfectly just God will seem unjust to us.
Why evil and injustice point to the existence of God
Just as it makes no sense to talk about a high crime rate if there are no laws to break, in the same way we cannot take evil and injustice seriously unless there is some ultimate standard of beauty and goodness that is being violated.
Why Did God Ask Abraham to Sacrifice His Son?
“I find a father holding a knife to his son’s throat to show his love to a totalitarian dictator wicked!” was the late atheist Christopher Hitchens’ response to the biblical account of God telling Abraham to sacrifice his son. There is simply no reason to get upset about the story unless it is true, after all, we do not take seriously what a fictitious villain does in a faery tale. It only becomes worthy of being upset about if it actually happened, so let us accept the event as true and look at the account.