Suffering
Sam Harris, in his book “The Moral Landscape”, defines good as that which moves away from “the worst possible misery”. Once we conceive of “the worst possible misery for everyone” then we can talk about taking incremental steps towards this abyss. -Sam Harris, Moral Landscape, pg 39 While listening to Sam’s opening speech in his [...]
Have you ever been in a small group where someone has uttered something like the couple in the video above? Papering over a deep tragedy with answers that were not only paper-thin but actually damaging if closely scrutinized? I have. And like the grieving mother, I’ve also felt like an ass when I couldn’t stomach [...]
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A section out of this story caught my eye recently: A Baptist of Calvinist leanings, Chandler believes everything is in God’s hands and foreordained in a way people can’t fully understand. As he’s tried to stay well, he’s continued to preach to his youthful audience that they should get ready for suffering, and trust God [...]
Here is Voddie Baucham Jr.‘s treatment of the question of evil: A couple of things need to be observed here: Voddie completely dodges the question. Voddie turns the question around to be about the questioner. Voddie derides the questioner by assaulting their intelligence (his preamble regarding first year philosophy students is not only uncalled for but [...]
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I’ve recently come across an author for American Thinker, Robin of Berkley. I absolutely love her work and story telling style. Here is an ex-script from her post titled “Tiger, the Buddha, and me”: Here’s my favorite story about the Buddha: A grieving young mother from a poor background begged him to revive her dead [...]
Here are some additional thoughts from a conversation that ensued following my previous post on this subject: God does not create states of affairs and thus such we are under no compulsion to claim such states of affairs as having to have some sort of “greater good”. I think the greatest difference here is in [...]
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In a recent discussion on Facebook with a few Calvinistic brethren of mine, we ran across the topic of Total Depravity. Here is a segment of that conversation wherein I discuss the Reformed view of this doctrine’s flaws. Jared, your view of man’s depravity seems to be rather chaotic and confused. Much like Luther and [...]
I recently ran across this article by Dr Little regarding the question of evil and suffering in the world. Dr. Little asks the often overlooked (or assumed) question of “Must good come from every evil in the world?” Dr Little’s answer may surprise (and anger) you, especially since it goes against what many pastors tend to offer [...]
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