A Range of Prophecy Prophecy in the Bible can be viewed as a mountain range, which when looking at it straight-on, we might only see one peak, but when looking at it from even a slight angle, we see the various peaks along a ridge that once appeared to be one. In a very similar…

A little about faith According to the author of the Book of Hebrews, “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (11:1, KJV). Seemingly in line with the thought of this verse, oftentimes, I have heard the sentiment that faith is something that you just have against all odds,…

The Simple is Complex The Bible is a particular book about a particular people in a particular place at a particular time with a particular message. It was written to and for a certain group of people in their given context at their given time to speak to them about their given circumstance and circumstances.…

Summary The gist of this work is that for every event or effect, there is a cause, and every cause is caused by a prior cause, thus making the present cause an effect of the prior cause. When dealing with the original cause of the universe, we must ask ourselves whether the universe itself caused…

Who’s Gonna Judge? It has been said, “Only God can judge me,” and such sentiment seems to have been especially popular in the mid-1990s when Tupac came out with his song Only God Can Judge Me. In 1999, Master P released an album by the same name. Regardless of where the sentiment came from or…

That the Existence of Evil Presupposes the Existence of God It seems to me that the existence of evil presupposes the existence of God, though I am sure many would have great contention with me on this point. For, they might say, if God is God, being wholly good and all-powerful and all-wise or all-knowing,…

In Beginning… Just what was there when God began creating? This is a question even very young children ask. Notably, from the text of Genesis 1:2, there was God, his spirit, the darkness, the deep, and the untamed earth, presumably covered in primordial waters. We do see in the following verses that God speaks and…

Telling the Story from the Start In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God, so goes the beginning of the Gospel of John. Or, take the beginning of the Torah, which begins with something like “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” The…