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  • Only God Can Judge

    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…

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  • What of Evil?

    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,…

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  • Beginnings, Part 2

    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…

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  • Beginnings, Part 1

    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…

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  • An Ordinary Man Jesus of Nazareth was no less a man of his times than anyone else of his day. To be sure, in many ways, he was ahead of his time; and yet, he was, at the same time, very much a product of his day and age. While he may have been progressive…

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