The Problem of God is one of Georgetown’s most important courses: Every semester, a dozen or so sections of 20 to 40 undergraduates apiece explore the human spiritual experience. The class, one of two ...
The author contends that the traditional “Western,” i.e. Christian, conception of God as a being who is at once “perfect,” “all-powerful,” and “all-knowing” is in fact “not coherent.” To put this ...
Mark Ward Sr., a University of Houston-Victoria professor of communication, has been recognized for his book, “God Talk: The Problem of Divine-Human Communication,” which was named the Outstanding ...
American Judaism has a God problem. Actually, and paradoxically, it seems to have two God problems. One is Jewish atheism. The other is Jewish theism. Here we will look at the data and the dilemma. At ...
I must humbly disagree with the letter “Faith can change lives” (July 17, TribLIVE). God is not the answer, he is the problem. The God of the Bible is an angry being with a childlike mentality. He ...
God is faithful and is always with you, protecting and watching over you whether you believe He is there or not. Just because you cannot sense Him intervening, it does not mean He is distracted ...
Evil in this world is relentless. And evil doesn’t stop itself. It must be stopped by the force of good. “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” – Romans 12:21 Another school ...
In 2012, the last election Democrats won, a headline from their convention read: "Democrats boo God." In 2016, they heckled a preacher during the opening prayer. It's a perception they've been trying ...
In my 20s, I had a friend who was brilliant, charming, Ivy-educated and rich, heir to a family fortune. I’ll call him Gallagher. He could do anything he wanted. He experimented, dabbling in ...
In an essay published yesterday at the New York Times, philosophy professor Peter Atterton claims that the idea of a morally perfect, all-knowing, all-powerful God is incoherent. If this is true, then ...
So, it could be said that there’s a sense in which no one, neither God nor any finite human, can genuinely know immorality as one knows, say, moral excellence, for immorality is a tendency in a human ...
In an essay published yesterday at the New York Times, philosophy professor Peter Atterton claims that the idea of a morally perfect, all-knowing, all-powerful God is incoherent. If this is true, then ...