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Storms are Not from God
As we seek to learn why bad things happen in this world, we are looking at several principles of a theological chaos theory. We are currently discussing the point that due to the fall of humanity,...
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When God Pled Guilty Book Update
It has been about three weeks since I published a post on the book I am writing, When God Pled Guilty. In case you are wondering, I haven’t forgotten about it! To the contrary, I have been working on...
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The Flood According to Job 22:15-18
I am finally returning to my series on the violence of God in Scripture. We left off in the middle of a discussion about the violence of the flood. This post is going to look at the account of the...
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Comparing God with Hitler
I talk weekly with people who are pretty antagonistic toward Christianity. One of them recently sent me this picture: It is interesting because I am still in the middle of a long series on how to...
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Is God a Psychotic Mass Murderer who Drowns Babies?
Bill Maher is back at it… Late night comedian Bill Maher told his HBO “Real Time” audience on Friday that God was a “psychotic mass murderer.” He made the comments during a conversation on the biblical...
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God Takes Responsibility for the Flood
When bad things happen in this world, God often takes the responsibility for them because He is the one who created a universe where such evil things are possible. When God created the world, He did...
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Are people “Only Evil Continually”? Calvinism and Genesis 6:5
Two key texts for the Calvinistic teaching on Total Depravity are Genesis 6:5 and Genesis 8:21. Both verses state that all the intents, thoughts, and imaginations of mankind are only evil continually....
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Genesis 6:5 and Genesis 8:21 do not teach Total Depravity
Yesterday we briefly looked at the Calvinistic understanding of Genesis 6:5 and Genesis 8:21, and how they use these verses to defend the doctrine of Total Depravity. In this post I want to look at how...
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Does Jesus Drown Babies?
Remember Andrea Yates? She is the mother who, in 2001, drowned her five children in a bathtub. She said that the devil had influenced her children, and so they needed to die. A few years later, another...
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