Bill Pratt | March 1, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt If Jesus is God, and God is uncaused, immaterial, omniscient, omnipotent, and eternal (and lots of other things), then don’t we have a problem with Jesus being a real man who lived in 1st century Palestine? After all, Jesus grew tired, but God doesn’t get tired; Jesus sometimes didn’t know things, [...]
Bill Pratt | January 11, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In a sense, yes, but in another sense, no. Evangelicals often point out that all sins will send you to hell, that God demands moral perfection, so whether you steal a stick of chewing gum or murder your spouse, both sins will equally damn you. This is really just a way [...]
Bill Pratt | November 30, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Ever since I became an evangelical believer in Christ, about 12 years ago, I have noticed that there is uneasiness among my evangelical brothers and sisters with certain fields of science. This uneasiness, I quickly learned, has much to do with the age of the universe and the origins of mankind. [...]
Bill Pratt | October 17, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt I’ve touched on this topic before, but it continues to interest me, so I thought I would cover some new ground on this important section of the New Testament. Context, when reading any passage of the Bible, is crucial to understanding it. When we look at the context of Romans 9-11, [...]
Bill Pratt | September 6, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Yesterday, I posted on the issue of free will and God’s knowledge of of human free acts in the future. This is an area the church has grappled with for centuries. But how do other major worldviews deal with this issue? Most atheists think they can avoid the issue by denying [...]
Bill Pratt | September 5, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Some people get hung up on the idea that God can know, for sure, what I will freely do in the future. Their argument goes something like this: if whatever God knows will certainly occur (as virtually all Christians agree), then either I am not free to act or God does [...]
Bill Pratt | May 18, 2009
Sometimes Christians say things like, “When I see a beautiful flower, I see God.” It is a common experience, when witnessing a thing of great beauty, to comment that it reminds one of God. In fact, this sense of God’s presence is part of the blessing of being a Christian. However, Christians need to be [...]
Bill Pratt | May 10, 2009
There are many passages in the Bible that speak to this issue, but I want to explain it in simple theological terms. First, God is omnibenevolent (all-good). That means that he desires our highest welfare. Second, he is omniscient (all-knowing). That means he knows everything that is possible to know. He has all the information [...]
Bill Pratt | May 5, 2009
Christians believe that God is omniscient, which means that God knows everything—past, present, and future. In addition, he knows the actual and the possible; only the impossible (the contradictory) is unknown to God, as the logically contradictory is unknowable to anyone. But there are passages in the Bible that seem to indicate that God is [...]
Bill Pratt | April 28, 2009
Christians refer to eternity all of the time, but rarely stop to think about what it means. Many think that eternity means “a really long time” or “endless time.” These concepts are helpful to some, but they are not really accurate descriptions of eternity. The difficulty we have is that we are time-bound creatures trying [...]
