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God launches an investigation.
It is hard to come up with theological statements about the nature of God which do justice to all the biblical passages about him. This is compounded by the fact that, as Isaiah puts it, his ways are not our ways and his thoughts are not our thoughts — we are bound to hit only [...]
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Christian Theism and the Problem of Evil
The Christian tradition stands upon thousands of years of considering the problem of evil. The biblical God, his worshippers claim, is all-powerful. He can do whatever he like and has the exhaustive ability to step in in any situation. The Christian God also has the ability to step in at any moment and rectify any [...]
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Adam and the Enslavement of Humanity, Part 2
We find adam where we left them last, in their original state of liberty, work, and rest. As God’s representatives, they were charged with bringing order to the world. God makes Adam and places him in an orchard to begin his work. Adam is a working creature, and not because some overlord needs his labor, [...]
What is God? A Response to John Fensel (#5).
Like a serpent in a garden, John Fensel has posed an old question in new garb: “Do Moral Obligations really follow from God’s Existence?“ In 1504 words, his answer is “No.” Attempting to answer questions including, “What is obligation?” and “What is moral?”, he neglects the big question: “What is God?” The shorter Westminster Catechism replies, [...]
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God/god
Some time ago I laid down the law with respect to the incorrect and silly system of quotation marks that is pervasive throughout American writing and results in oceans of ink being wasted. The thought police haven’t dragged me away yet, so I decided to up the ante and tackle the capitalization problems that deities [...]
on that mennonite confession, article 1
Article one is here. Thoughts on it below the jump. Related Posts:Augsburg Wednesday: Article 1, of GodThe Ascension of MosesGod launches an investigation.Christian Theism and the Problem of EvilAdam and the Enslavement of Humanity, Part 2
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seeing vs. meeting with god
Read the delightful article by Daniel McClellan here, where he explains for us what grammatical and text-critical analysis of Hebrew and Greek phrases in Exodus can tell us about the way the revisers and translators viewed the relationship between lowly man and Almighty God. Related Posts:Negotiating Genesis 1:1 – A Proposed TranslationThe Ascension of MosesGod [...]
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The Ascension of Moses