Can God Make Evil Good? The Question Plato Asked—and Scripture Answers
Suppose someone asks you a question that seems designed to leave a Christian with no good answer: If God commanded something cruel, would it become good simp...
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La La Land: When Christianity Stops Asking What Is True
In 1997, All Star United released “La La Land,” a cheerful song with a brutal message. Its narrator enjoys a convenient Christianity: agreeable verses, bless...
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Tell someone that Zeus is real, and he will probably shrug or laugh. Tell him that Poseidon rules the seas or that Odin deserves his allegiance, and the clai...
Read more →Even the Nicene Creed Must Answer to Scripture
When Christians stand together and confess a creed, they are not merely repeating history. They are declaring what they believe to be true. That makes one qu...
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