Bill Pratt | October 7, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Bad things happen to people all the time. They happen to you and to me, in places nearby and in places far away. Sometimes when we see a person or persons suffering, and we don’t like their worldview, their moral beliefs, or lifestyle, we Christians do something that we need to [...]
Bill Pratt | January 21, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt An interesting article published on CNN’s site the other day claims that many people are angry at God, even atheists and agnostics. The article, entitled, “Anger at God common, even among atheists,” raises a lot of interesting questions. Who gets angry at God and for what reasons? According to the article, [...]
Bill Pratt | December 22, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt On March 24, 2010, Christian philosopher William Lane Craig debated agnostic philosopher Michael Tooley about whether God exists. I attended the debate and thought I would share a summary with you. Craig opened with 5 well-known arguments for the existence of God (some of which we’ve presented on TQA in the [...]
Bill Pratt | July 19, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Since the Fall, we know why people choose evil – we are all born with original sin that saturates our soul. The Fall, however, does not explain why Adam and Eve, or even Satan, used their free will to choose evil, to reject God. This question may never be answered this [...]
Bill Pratt | May 15, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Woody Allen has never been one to shy away from tackling big issues in his movies. In the movie Hannah and Her Sisters there is a classic scene that depicts Woody Allen’s character first talking to a Catholic priest about converting to Catholicism and then announcing to his Jewish parents his [...]
Bill Pratt | May 6, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Michael Patton, over at the Parchment and Pen blog, recently wrote a powerful post about his struggle with depression. I was deeply moved when I read his post, as he described what it has been like for him over the last couple months. In the past, I may have dismissed people’s [...]
Bill Pratt | March 31, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Recently I was conversing with a skeptic of Christianity who was explaining why he had become a skeptic. One of the most significant reasons was that he was greatly disappointed that the New Testament, and Jesus in particular, did not address a particular social institution which he considers to be particularly [...]
Darrell | January 30, 2010
Post Author: Darrell One common atheist argument against Christianity is known as The Problem of Evil. It can be stated as follows. 1) God is said to be omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect. 2) If God is omnipotent, He has the power to defeat evil. 3) If God is omniscient, He knows when and where evil exists. 4) [...]
Bill Pratt | January 27, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most common complaints against God is that he allows evil to occur in the world. Christians respond that God has good purposes for allowing evil, but can we back this up with Scripture? Actually, there are many good examples from Scripture, but one of the best is the [...]
