What is it that makes an action morally good and right? Solving Euthyphro’s dilemma.
Quantum Physics and the Foreknowledge of God - (or why it might be ridiculous to think we can explain everything about God)
We often ask questions about how or why God would do this or that. The assumption is that we should actually be able to understand how God does things. Maybe we vastly overestimate our cognitive abilities.
How Much has Culture Skewed Your Version of Christianity?
We unconsciously evaluate everything through our own secular and theological cultural immersion and we are utterly unaware of it. Consequently, it will affect how we interpret the Bible and the sort of God we find acceptable.
Free Will: What is it, do we have it, and implications for moral responsibility and predestination
What is ‘free will’, do we have it, and what are the implications for moral responsibility and divine predestination?
Will You be Almost Nothing?
How do you know if the person everyone thinks you are, perhaps that you think you are, is not actually the real you? How would you be able to tell if you were 98% poseur?
Who and What is God?
When you begin to conceive of a magnitude of beauty so powerful that the universe itself is unable to contain it, you have taken the first tiny step toward understanding who and what God is. Then do the same for justice, joy, music, love, purity, and every perfect gift. Then imagine a being who transcends time.
Racism: The solution will cost you everything--but the reward is unspeakable
This may be different from other articles on racism. I have found a solution, but it will cost you everything and take the rest of your life—-but the rewards are unimaginable.
Visited a Man in his Final minutes of Consciousness
Sometimes, the final minutes of a person’s life are priceless, determining their eternal destiny.
Lessons from the Last Hours of a Person's Life
Sometimes three things come together to form a moment of infinite importance for eternity. The final hours of a person’s life coupled with the hand of God quietly working behind the scenes, and the third ingredient is one of God’s sons or daughters ready to step into that moment.
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.
The Meaning of Life: The Love You Were Made For and Have Always Wanted
Although we have often thought we could find happiness in joy in this life, what we have really always wanted is God —the one who is the origin of happiness and joy.
Why the "Universe from Nothing" is a Non-Starter
Why the idea that “nothing” caused the universe to come into existence, does not work.
On the Death of a Child
Thoughts on the question, “Why does God allow children to die?”
How some Christians have been duped into thinking Christmas is a pagan holiday
Recently some Christians have joined the ranks of pagans and atheists who have duped them into accepting the urban myth that Christmas is a pagan holiday. Strangely, the pagans oppose Christmas because it celebrates the birth of Christ, but some Christians oppose Christmas because they believe it is a pagan holiday! Here are four points to be aware of.
J.D. Unwin and Why Sexual Morality May be Far More Important than You Ever Thought
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.
What Does it Mean to be Human? Part 3--Free Will
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.
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.
Why this scientist believes intelligent design was required for biological life
Science is now in a position to analyze effects to see if they test positive for requiring intelligence to produce. Applying that scientific method to biological life reveals that the fingerprints of intelligence are all over the genomes of life.
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.