God. Real. Right.

This post comes from Joseph Wooddell, Ph.D., my friend and colleague at Criswell College.

Editor of American Atheist magazine, David Smalley, made the case in a recent interview with Dr. Barry Creamer (Associate Professor of Humanities, Criswell College), that if Jesus is now with God the Father, then His sacrifice (presumably Jesus’ sacrifice, but perhaps also what Mr. Smalley takes to be some sort of sacrifice on the part of God the Father) doesn’t amount to much of a sacrifice. That is, to be in “heaven” or in the presence of God or whatever, more than makes up for any temporal suffering on the part of God the Son (or perhaps also God the Father). In terms of a propositional argument, it might look something like this:

Premise 1: Temporal, earthly suffering is not all that significant if the sufferer (or those who love him) end up spending eternity in heaven with God.
Premise 2: While Jesus (or perhaps also (more…)

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When Hurricanes strike, as Gustav is doing right now, age-old questions are raised again. Some are about how to react and why. But some are more basic, about the source of all kinds of problems persistently faced by man. This post is about that question: from where comes evil?
The first eight and a half lines of Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” describe the immediate source (or proximate cause, using Descartes’ language) of problems:

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it
And spills the (more…)

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