By: Clyde Pilkington JR. You just want to be OK. Your struggles are constant; your conflicts are continuous; your battles are endless. You just look forward to that plane – that place and time in life – where everything will just finally be OK. Really though, who in this life truly is “OK”? The simple fact of the matter is…
Painters copy on canvass concepts and images that originated with God. Sculptors form and shape objects that were conceptualized by God. Yet God, who humanly speaking, could have exercised His copyright, did not do so. We tend to take for granted the wonder, the grandeur, the splendor and the variety of God’s creation on display to us. The creation is…
The classical theodicy riddle goes like this: Since there is evil, God cannot be omnipotent and at the same time kind, for if He were so He would not have allowed evil. So, if He exists, He is either omnipotent, but not kind-hearted, for He does nothing to stop evil; or He is kind-hearted but not omnipotent, for though He…
For many years I taught that God is a gentleman; that He will not force anyone to do anything; that He gave every human being free moral agency – the freedom of exercising choice. That was what I understood, because that was what I had been taught. And it fitted my concept of God, that He is not a bully…