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 1, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt This is a common question that is asked by those who misunderstand the nature of God’s omnipotence. Another humorous way of asking this question is: Can God make a sandwich so big he can’t eat it? (I owe that jewel to my friend Greg). When Christians claim that God is omnipotent [...]
Bill Pratt | December 24, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Many people wonder why we don’t see miracles such as the parting of the sea, the raising of the dead, and people walking on water. It seems like miracles were pretty common in the Old and New Testaments, but today nothing like that seems to happen. Why? First of all, I [...]
Bill Pratt | December 20, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I say “yes.” I believe that God does give every person a chance to be saved. Why do I believe this? All men are given the chance to accept or reject God because God loves all men and desires all men to come to him. According to 2 Pet. 3:9, “The [...]
Bill Pratt | December 18, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I am reading Pascal’s Pensees right now and couldn’t help but stop and record some of the wonderful quotes I’ve run across. With regard to the interaction between faith and reason, Pascal said: The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. With regard to the search for God: There [...]
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 | October 6, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt This post is a little bit off the beat and path for Tough Questions Answered, but here goes anyway! A couple nights ago, famed author and speaker Gary Chapman spoke at our church about his recent research and book project. The subject was how to live a loving life. Chapman interviewed [...]
Bill Pratt | September 22, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt If you actually know anything substantive about major world religions, you know the answer to this question is an emphatic “no.” The only people claiming that all religions are the same or that all religions are equally true are those people who know little to nothing about world religions, or who [...]
