It’s hard to view any type of news feed nowadays without coming across something that seems crazy on a daily basis. For example, on July 12, in an exchange between Senator Josh Hawley and Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges, the senator asked the professor if, by using the phrase, “people with a capacity for pregnancy,”Continue reading “Understanding our Crazy World”
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Humanity: Loathsome Insects, or Royal Family? Part 4 of 4
In Part 1, I made the argument that humans were made to be manifestations of God’s own divine presence, an idea I owe to Crispin Fletcher Louis (See “Excursus B” in his book, Jesus Monotheism). We were created to be the images (or “idols) of God, and in being so, the expectation is that whenContinue reading “Humanity: Loathsome Insects, or Royal Family? Part 4 of 4”
Humanity: Loathsome Insects, or Royal Family? Part 1 of 4
In his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” the revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards famously compared mankind to repulsive creatures in the hands of a repulsed God. The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, andContinue reading “Humanity: Loathsome Insects, or Royal Family? Part 1 of 4”
The Problem of Pain: 8. When was Satan Kicked out of Heaven?
Why is this such an important question in a discussion about God’s goodness and the problem of pain? Let’s put it this way. What kind of God would Yahweh be if He kicked Satan out of Heaven (remember, Eden was Heaven on earth) prior to creating mankind only to let the devil back in toContinue reading “The Problem of Pain: 8. When was Satan Kicked out of Heaven?”
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