Where the picture of God as a righteous, good, omnipotent Judge couldn’t be more clear. When Ben Stein asked Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins what he’d say to God if given the opportunity–as seen in the movie –Dawkins, quoting 20th Century philosopher Bertrand Russell, replied: “I’ll ask why did he hide so well.” At some other time and…
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What’s the point behind this series? Intellectual pleasure? Satisfaction? An odd curiosity?Thought I forgot about this series, eh? Nope. Just let her simmer on the back burner. Anyway, I still want to round her out with 13 posts. So, I thought now would be a good time to pull all the articles out there into one…
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900,000. That’s the average number of in a 24 hour period. Tempting to read them all. I know. Such wonderful, witty wisdom holed up in those nearly one million posts. But you’d need over 900,000 minutes to read them all (that is if it took 1 minute to read each post…which is about the average time…
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Where you take the Name That Heresy quiz to learn more about the doctrine of God as spirit. Let’s play a game. It’s called “Name That Heresy.” Here are your clues: 1. God has flesh and bones as tangible as man’s. 2. He is limited in what he knows, can do and can be. 3….
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Where you discover the surprising reason for America’s dramatic dive into immorality. Let me ask you a question: How do you explain America’s spectacular moral slide? I mean, we’re just over 200 years old and it seems like the boat capsized. Is there anything else like it in history? Possibly. But in such a…
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Normally, cults crop up and just got creepier. The Worldwide Church of God, on the other hand, took a shocking, dramatic turn. For the most part, cults crop up and just get creepier. Take Scientology or Theosophy for example. The Worldwide Church of God, on the other hand, took a shocking, dramatic turn for the better. In just one…
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Why it’s impossible to measure God. He is neverending. Incomprehensible. Infinite. Picture this: You’re at the Equator on a boat anchored in the Pacific Ocean. You pull anchor and raise your sails. The wind drives you east. Somehow, after 24,901 miles, you are able to sail around the earth in a straight line and arrive back…
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How do you think you’ll respond when you realize you’ve made it to heaven? My answer surprised me. Not long ago, on a small hillside east of St. Louis, MO, I was cutting grass. Naturally, my mind was a million miles away from that small hillside… Somewhere between a lump of books in a…
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In which you discover if God’s righteousness is inadequate, overbearing, ethically challenged or merely misunderstood. Four classic problems plague the nature of God’s righteousness: evil, vindication, corruption and ignorance. Evil: Some claim that God can’t solve the problem of pain–if God is good, then why does evil still exist? Vindictive: Other people claim that God is…
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Want to know the basic point behind the complex message of the Bible… without reading the whole thing? I can tell you what it is in three simple words. But you have to promise me something… You have to promise me you’ll dig deeper beyond this simple cheat sheet. You have to promise me that…
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