Illuminations
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Putting God on Trial
One of the great errors of modern man is that he thinks he can put God on trial. We speak as though God must answer to our moral intuitions, our emotional reactions, our preferred version of fairness. We ask, “How could God do this?” or “How could God command that?” as though God stands beneath…
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Can the Mind Host a Spirit?
The Problem with a Rigid Tripartite View of Man Recently, in a discussion I used a phrase: “The mind can host the wrong kind of spirit…” This statement was met with immediate objection on the basis that: “spirits are not in the mind and the mind does not host spirits.” This objection was very strange…
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The Insanity of Pride
God is the source. A sane creature should look at that and think, “There is nothing to envy. Everything good flows from Him. His presence is the highest good.” But pride is not sane and says: It is intolerable that goodness, glory, authority, and final say belong to another. I do not just want to…
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Why Does Jesus Not Say It Plainly?
During our Bible study, we read Luke 7. When we reached verse 23, I thought: “why doesn’t Jesus simply say, ‘I am He’? Why does He so often answer indirectly rather than directly and bluntly?” Nowhere in Scripture does Jesus say in those exact terms, “I am God, worship me.” But why not? Then it…
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How Much Truth Can You Handle?
I prayed to God yesterday because He had felt distant this past week. I wondered whether I had done something wrong, so I prayed and asked Him plainly. Then the answer came today: “How much truth can you handle?” As I sat in quiet reflection, I realized that this is often true even among ourselves.…
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Do we actually have free will — or are we just robots arguing with robots?
Free will has actually been “solved” for centuries. Augustine, Aquinas, and others already worked through the hard stuff. And yet, every generation seems to dig up the same objections, rewrap them, and call them new, then weaponize it to blame God or call God evil. Why? Because denying free will is the oldest escape hatch…
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If God is Omnipotent, why does He create evil?
Anyone who has been in this sub will eventually and surely come across this question. And no wonder, because it is one of the hardest if not the hardest question that a Christian will face. To answer this question, 2 background understanding of reality must be established. Conditions for Reality God is omnipotent. He didn’t…
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Why Doesn’t God Stop Mass Shootings, Wars, or Disasters?
Whenever a tragedy happens, people rush to say: “If God is real, why didn’t He stop this?” But that accusation ignores the three pillars that make this world real: If you demand that God override these every time something evil happens, then you don’t actually want a real world. You want a world at your terms. When God…
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