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 | 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 [...]
Bill Pratt | December 30, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt God wishes every person to avoid hell and be saved from it (2 Pet 3:9). Christians do not believe God sends people to hell. Hell is freely chosen by those who reject God. God gave every person the power of free will and the most important decision we will make with that [...]
Bill Pratt | December 16, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Clearly, yes He does. Many people express shock over the fact that God took human life in the great flood or that He commanded Israel to kill Canaanites. There are many other instances in the Bible where God either directly or indirectly takes lives. There is no getting around this fact. It makes us [...]
Bill Pratt | December 3, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Many skeptics of Christianity claim that the existence of evil in the world proves that a good God cannot exist. I believe this viewpoint is exactly backwards. If you truly believe that there is evil in the world, then you must believe that there is good in the world as well. [...]
Bill Pratt | November 5, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most common objections to belief in God is the problem of evil. One form of the problem of evil sounds like this: “I can’t believe in a God who allows children to be sexually molested. If there was a God, He wouldn’t allow such things to occur.” I [...]
Bill Pratt | June 21, 2009
The classical Judeo-Christian belief has always been that God is all-powerful, or omnipotent. He can do whatever is actually possible to do, but not what is actually impossible to do. We previously covered this topic in “Can God Make a Rock So Big He Can’t Lift It?” But there are some who deny that God [...]
Bill Pratt | March 9, 2009
In a previous post, we showed that God is not the direct cause of moral evil. But if God is not the cause, then who is? Christians answer that free creatures are the direct cause of moral evil. How does this work? God gave human beings the power of free will. Free will is defined [...]
Bill Pratt | March 5, 2009
Now here is a question that many people struggle with. Here is how the argument generally goes: God is the Author of everything. Evil is something. Therefore, God is the Author of evil. This is a valid syllogism, meaning that if premises 1 and 2 are correct, then the conclusion follows. Looking at premise 1, [...]
