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A Christian Perspective on Guns
Read moreIn respect of the gun control debate, there are both common goods and competing goods. The common goods are safety, a decrease in violence, and death reduction. The competing good is protecting the Second Amendment rights of the United States Constitution. However, I do not think these goods ought to be competing. In this post, […]
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Don’t Follow Your Heart!
Read moreThe culture today has moved over to complete relativism on a great number of things. Identity, morality, and purpose have all been divorced from objective reality and are based largely upon one’s feelings. But theprophet Jeremiah warned us, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.” (Jeremiah 17:9). What did Jesus have to […]
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Taking a Deeper Look at the Problem of Evil: The Cross
Read moreFinally, I end by covering the cross and our eschatological hope as Christians. Jesus agonized the nastiest evil that can be thrown at him: denial by his own adored people, in the streets of their capital city; abhorrence from the authorities in his own religion; unfairness at the hands of the Roman court; unfaithfulness […]
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Taking a Deeper Look at the Problem of Evil: The Greater Good Principle
Read moreConcluding the free will theodicy, I will delicately move to the greater good principle or defense. I say “delicately” because this defense may not help a questioner much if they have been a victim of a seemingly very unwarranted evil, and/or if they are still carrying anger or bitterness. The principle supports certain evils […]
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Taking a Deeper Look at the Problem of Evil: The Free Will Defense
Read moreMy last post hinted at the one last, ethical, principle of Leibniz’s best-of-all-possible-worlds theodicy: God’s creation includes human free will (capacity of free will is shown in biblical examples like Deuteronomy 30:11-19, Isaiah 30:1 and Joshua 24:14-15). For Leibniz, this idea was just a principle of his theodicy. For Augustine, CS Lewis, and Alvin Plantinga […]
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Taking a Deeper Look at the Problem of Evil: The Best of All Possible Worlds
Read moreFrom the last post, I want to move to the best of all possible worlds theodicy. One of the strengths of this theodicy is how straightforward and precise it is. It is also traditionally recognized as one of 18th-century philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s highly essential contributions to philosophy of religion. The place to start is […]
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Taking a Deeper Look at the Problem of Evil: Evil is a Privation
Read moreThe “problem of evil” is famous. If you believe in a God who is all-powerful and sovereign over the world and together is impeccably good and just, then the presence of evil and suffering creates a problem. This timeless report of it was provided by David Hume, in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. “Epicurus’s old […]
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Salvation and Why it Matters
Read moreBRIEF STATEMENT ON SALVATION I believe that, due to worldwide sin, no one can enter the kingdom of God lest they be born again; and that no grade of improvement however countless, no accomplishments in goodness however great, no ethos however admirable, no ordinance of any kind, can bring the sinner one inch closer to […]
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Learn to EASILY demolish BAD arguments for abortion.
Read moreA lot of us think we cannot be pro-life apologists unless we memorize every possible answer to every possible objection. Nothing could be further from the truth! Abortion advocates often attempt to silence the opposition by using “bad ways” to argue instead of doing the hard work of defending their position. In fact, if you […]
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Defending Theism: A Response to Hume, Russell, and Dawkins
Read moreIn this post, I look at anti-God arguments from three prominent philosophers, showing why belief in God is more reasonable than their objections to His existence. Theism, broadly defined, is the belief in the existence of a supreme being or other deities. Believers in Jesus Christ would say we follow Christian Theism, believing in and […]
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