(This is Part 2 of my response to the article, “God Is Unconvincing To Smart Folks,” by J. H. McKenna. For Part 1, click here.) Points 3, 4, and 5 of Dr. McKenna’s article deal with three key characteristics of God:…
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God Is Unconvincing To Smart Folks? – Part 2
Tagged with: atheism, Dr. J. H. McKenna, God, omnipotence, omniscience, pain, skepticism, suffering, theodicy, violence
Posted in All About God, Pain and Suffering, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Pain and Suffering, Science Philosophy and History
Why Is Life So Hard? Why are there So Many Struggles?
Inner struggles are a part of our process of spiritual rebirth. There are many words used to describe these spiritual struggles: Temptation. The dark night of the soul. Spiritual anguish. Depression. The book of Revelation calls these dark and troublesome…
Tagged with: born again, depression, Emanuel Swedenborg, inner struggles, spiritual rebirth, spiritual storms, Swedenborg, temptation, the dark night of the soul
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Spiritual Growth
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Spiritual Growth
Evil Is Real, and it Does Harm the Innocent
There’s a New Age myth floating around that evil is not real; that evil is just an illusion; that if anything evil happens to us, it’s either karma for evil we ourselves did in a past life, or it’s something…
Tagged with: Catawba County NC, evil, Good Samaritan, Jefferson Heavner, justice, Marvin Jacob Lee, Marvin Lee, North Carolina, violence
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering
Evil Lives in a Fantasy Land
“I believe I helped Inmate Matt and Inmate Sweat escape because I was caught up in the fantasy.” That’s what Joyce Mitchell said to New York State police investigators in her sworn testimony following the Shawshank Redemption style escape of…
Tagged with: 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape, David Sweat, deception, evil, falsity, Joyce Mitchell, prison escape, prison romance, Richard Matt, Shawshank Redemption, truth, violence
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering
The Spiritual Anatomy of Physically Abusive Men
Yet another woman has been murdered by a physically abusive man—this time in Cheyenne, Wyoming. On April 12, 2015, Janessa Spencer was at home with her boyfriend, Samual Cook, when they heard a loud banging on the door. As Spencer…
Easter, Resurrection, and the Germanwings Airliner Crash
On March 24, 2015, co-pilot Andreas Lubitz took his place in the cockpit of Germanwings Flight 9525, originating in Barcelona, Spain. The destination was Düsseldorf, Germany. Lubitz had done his research. He was ready. He just had to wait for…
Tagged with: Andreas Lubitz, death, Easter, Germanwings, germanwings copilot, Germanwings crash, heaven, Patrick Sondenheimer, resurrection, spirituality, suffering
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering
Robin Williams, 1951-2014
Annette and I are saddened to hear of the death of Robin Williams yesterday, August 11, 2014, at the age of 63. He was a great and compassionate soul. His humor lightened the lives of millions of people around the…
Tagged with: angels, comedy, death, depression, heaven, hell, Robin Williams, Robin Williams 1951-2014, Robin Williams suicide, suicide, What Dreams May Come
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
How can we have Faith when So Many Bad Things happen to So Many Good People? Part 4
Click here for Part 1 of this article. Click here for Part 2 of this article. Click here for Part 3 of this article. It’s time to face the music. It’s time to get busy and struggle with our faith.…
Tagged with: Caesar, compassion, death, evil, faith, God, natural disasters, pain, spirituality, suffering, temptations, when bad things happen to good people
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Spiritual Growth
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Spiritual Growth
How can we have Faith when So Many Bad Things happen to So Many Good People? Part 3
Click here for Part 1 of this article. Click here for Part 2 of this article. Part 2 dealt with God’s eternal perspective in creating and governing the universe and the people in it. One of the points made there…
Tagged with: death, Divine Providence, evil, God, grieving, natural disasters, pain, suffering, the problem of evil, violence, war
Posted in Pain and Suffering
Posted in Pain and Suffering
How can we have Faith when So Many Bad Things happen to So Many Good People? Part 2
Click here for Part 1 of this article. In Part 1, we talked about the painful struggles of life, our questioning of God, and how coming to realize that we don’t understand the way God runs this universe is a…
Tagged with: cosmology, Creation, evil, God, human society, natural disasters, nature, pain, science, suffering, the universe, violence
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Science Philosophy and History
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