Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Tag: Christian Apologetics
Some denominations and movements within the Christian world are foretelling or "prophesying" a world-wide revival. They even teach that we believers have to work to facilitate that revival, in order to put the world right, and, they hope, to persuade Jesus Christ to come back. If that's your belief, good luck: you'll need lots of it. It's a battle you cannot win.
If you really want to find evidence to support the Bible and its God, you can: there's plenty of it. Of course, there are no photographs of Jesus, or emails from Moses to Aaron, or videos of the Flood inundating the earth. And if you're hoping that God is going to peep between the clouds so that you can have faith, forget it- it isn't going to happen.
Tucker Carlson, in a recent speech in Canada, said "When you realize you're not God you have hit upon the root of all wisdom".
The existence of God, despite the complaints of people like Sir David Attenborough who gave suffering as the reason for his own atheism, doesn't go away by invoking this problem. After all, God may be pernicious and unloving. He may be uncaring. He may be somewhere else and not able to help us yet. He may be using suffering for his own purposes.
I made the mistake the other day of tuning in, briefly, to NPR "news". It really isn't news, it's opinion dressed as news. Within thirty seconds of listening, which is the time it normally takes for me to detect propaganda on NPR news, I was hearing support for Hamas funded by the tax payer, and how the brave "freedom fighters" will "regain their homeland" eventually.
Fuel for Faith, Food for Thought 