Thoughts on the question, “Why does God allow children to die?”
Thoughts on the question, “Why does God allow children to die?”
Recently some Christians have joined those who are anti-Christian to argue we should not celebrate Christmas. Strangely, the pagans oppose Christmas because it celebrates the birth of Christ, but the Christians oppose Christmas because they believe it is a pagan holiday! Here are four points to consider.
Oxford social anthropologist J.D. Unwin discovered that when a highly developed culture undergoes an increase in sexual freedom, a collapse of that culture follows within three generations. The historical data reveals this pattern with “monotonous” regularity.
Free will is the ability to make meaningful decisions that are not merely determined by chemistry and physics, nor anything other than oneself, and for any decision, you could have decided differently.
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?
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.