Comparing Three Worldviews: Are They Rational?
Everyone has a worldview, the glasses they use to see the world around them. But is your yours internally coherent and consistent?
Apologetics
These posts are apologetic in nature, giving a defense of my faith to skeptics.
The Problem of Evil: Why Does God Allow Evil to Exist?
The problem of evil is concerned with all the bad things happen in the world? Why doesn’t God prevent all this bad stuff from happening?
The Hiddenness of God: An Objection to God’s Existence
Why does God seem hidden? Does he not want us to believe that he exists? Or does he want more? To have us respond to him in faith and love.
The Moral Argument: Objective Goodness Requires God
Does God exist? The Moral Argument is an apologetic argument that seeks to show that belief in the existence of God is both logical and reasonable.
A Partial Answer to the The Problem of Evil
Why is there suffering and evil in the world today? Could it be that the problem of evil is at least in part to make us long for something better?
God, Time, and the Future. What Does God Know?
I am a finite being and bound by time and space; I can only be in one place at a time, and can only be in the current moment. For me the past is gone and the future has not yet happened; only the current moment actually exists. I can remember or read about things that have happened before the current moment and I can guess what will happen in the future, either because in my experience it always has (the sun appearing in the sky every day) or because I am planning on it to happen. But I have …
An Atheistic Worldview
And if there is no creator, then there is really no purpose for this universe, for humanity, or for any individual. Humanity is nothing more than an insignificant infection on an infinitesimal speck in the cosmic expanse. Even if an explanation for the origin of the universe, and for life and mind, could be provided, the result would be the same; there is no overarching purpose for any of it. We are nothing more than an accidental byproduct of naturalist processes, which themselves are coincidental, at work in an accidental universe.
Why An Imperfect Creation?
Why do we have an imperfect creation? Is it just because of the Fall? Or does its imperfection give us a desire for something better?
Does It Matter If We Were Created, or Not?
On a practical level, does it matter if we were created, or just a cosmic accident? I believe it makes a dramatic difference in how we live.
What Purpose Can We Have Without God?
What purpose is there in life with God? Can we have real purpose if we are just a cosmic accident without any real significance?
