Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Tag: Christian Apologetics
In my science classes at school-admittedly quite a long time ago now, I was taught “uniformitarian” doctrine: the present is the key to the past. Change occurs over eons of time at the rate of processes we observe now, was the instruction I received. This was, at the time, considered to be obvious, proven fact. Well, that proven fact has changed drastically. As we all know facts change regularly (that's a joke).
How should we feel about the political state of our nation and our world? Anyone who has their eyes open can't fail to feel trepidation, disgust and frustration when looking at what our so-called "leaders", and our potential leaders, say and get up to. But perhaps there's another way of looking at things...
A large percentage of people among the general public are sure that scientists can create life in the lab, and that scientists know how life evolved from non-life. The opposite is true: they have no truly scientific idea which can hold water.
What is "far-right" about "Lord of the Rings", except in the rabid, seething hatred of an alleged news reporter? I'll tell you: it's dualism. It's the conviction that there are such things as absolute good and absolute evil; that the two are in complete opposition, and that the good can and will ultimately prevail.
The most common cause of unbelief, according to surveys, is the problem of evil and suffering. If there really were a God, people reason, there would be no suffering. Putin's Russia would not get away with the invasion of Ukraine, Uncle Joe wouldn't have died of that awful disease, and the cat would not have got caught up in a tree.
Fuel for Faith, Food for Thought 