Should We Question God’s Sovereignty or ‘Right’ When It Comes to Taking Human Life?
Hi again Everyone!
I hope all has been well since the last time you logged on to read the last post here at Rational Faith Online . We’re all busy in January as we set set the tone the new year, so lets get right to it…
It sounds pretty strange to ask a question about the ‘rights’ …
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gods prerogatice,
gods right to take human life,
gods sovereignty
Is the Christian appeal to God’s nature as a basis for morality arbitrary?
I spent my “ Rational Faith Online ” time this week replying to comments rather than doing the topic I had planned. The comments I’ve been getting revolve around Euthyphro’s Dilemma and the third alternative I presented that splits the dilemma. It seems that the new question is how the idea of …
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God's Nature,
moral argument,
objective morality
Existence of Evil Grounds for Belief in God?
Can the best argument atheists have against the existence of God actually be used to show that God must exist? It doesn’t sound plausible…but the obvious existence of evil in our world is just what the prolific author (Narnia Chronicles, Mere Christianity) and respected Oxford scholar, C. S. Lewis said that finally convinced him of …
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c. s. lewis,
evil and suffering,
Existence of God,
goodness,
justice,
the problem of evil
What is Evil?
A few weeks ago, we started discussing explanations for the co-existence of a good God and the existence of evil. However, we didn’t discuss exactly what we mean by the term evil . There are different kinds of evil, natural evil and moral evil, for example. For useful discussion, we should make sure we’re on the same page…so here goes:
Though it is very …
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evil and suffering,
moral evil,
natural evil,
standard of good
Good Does Not Equal Happiness
For the record, I believe happiness is a good thing. I just had a happy week-end with friends at the Brudenell River Resort on Prince Edward island. Great friends we don’t get to see much anymore and tons of kids running around enjoying themselves… It was a good thing and I wish all week-ends (and week days too!) could be happy times. …
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evil and suffering,
happiness vs good,
the problem of evil