The idea that a perfect, beautiful afterlife will make everything we've suffered here worth it never worked for me. Some…
On The Problem of Suffering? So What’s the Problem?
2 Maccabees43 He also took up a collection from all his men, totaling about four pounds of silver, and sent…
On And Yet Other Apocrypha: 2 Maccabees and Others, Including Psalm 151!
Interesting points
On How Many of Those Early Christians Could Read?
There is an interesting interview today. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/18/nx-s1-5151333/nationalist-christians-rally-to-repent-for-what-they-consider-to-be-the-nations-sins These people have close to NO idea what it is to be a…
On Was the New Testament Canon Really Closed in 367 CE?
"But I can’t think of arguments for it (that is, why it seems likely)." Quite so. Would this not also…
On How Can We Imagine That God is Active in Our World? (A genuine, not rhetorical, question)
God is like an artist who has chosen a particular medium and is constrained by the medium in creating. Our…
On The Problem of Suffering? So What’s the Problem?
I agree. I don’t think “love” has a non-anthropomorphic definition. Therefore, “love” shouldn't be used or considered in any logical…
On The Problem of Suffering? So What’s the Problem?
Hi Bart, I seem to have couple of questions related to your book: "heaven and hell". Question 1) You mention…
On Daniel and a New Doctrine of Resurrection From the Dead
Jesus does indeed talk otherwise elsewhere. But I’m talking strictly about this Lukan passage. Do you get his point? I…
On The Problem of Suffering? So What’s the Problem?
My issue with any discussion of "the problem of suffering" is the question "what is suffering?" I may stub my…
On The Problem of Suffering? So What’s the Problem?