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On Santa If a parent tells their child to believe in a mythical being (Santa) to make them "feel happier" in spite of the truth, what ought the child think when the same parent tells them to believe in a God (who is many things, but who certainly brings happiness in some sense)? Note how many...

I doubt that many Christians here need to be convinced of the value of studying theology. A great number of you are active in the explicitly theological forums on this site. Yet perhaps some wonder whether theology is really that important for believers. Others may simply find theological...

The Calendar Day Interpretation. The Day-Age Interpretation. The Framework Interpretation. The Analogical Days Interpretation. And the list goes on... Do you understand the history behind and arguments both for and against the many different views that Christians hold concerning creation...

I'd like to suggest a short pamphlet which is available for reading online. Why I Believe in God was written by Dr. Cornelius Van Til, who was professor of Apologetics at Westminster Seminary. I frequently point serious-minded unbelievers to it for a summary defense of the Christian faith, and...

Even if "Allah" is properly translated as "God", I hope everyone here is aware that this consideration lends no support whatsover to the idea that the "God" of Islam and the "God" of Christianity are the same being. Identical words can have different meanings in different contexts. Meaning is...

It is quite difficult to see how the radically different truth-claims of Islam and Christianity could possibly originate from the same being. As PrayerWarriorUSA touched on above, the way of salvation, man's condition, the nature of God Himself, and many other points in these two religions are...

walkaways, I find Augustine's view of evil (evil as "privation") interesting also. I do think Augustine is correct to point out that evil is parasitic on good. But it seems wrong that evil is merely nonbeing, the lack or privation of good. The Bible seems to see evil as being positively bad...

Yekcidmij , My second reply to you here will be heavy on Scripture for a reason: (1) God's ultimate control over all things (even evil) and (2) that humans make free, morally responsible, choices are both truths taught in the Bible. See references and explanations below. Hence, denying God's...

Yekcidmij, You aren't saying that God's love for His creatures causes Him to deny His own nature as the all-powerful One, making humans to be in ultimate control of their own actions, are you? I trust that this is not what you mean - note that the Bible speaks of God as the ultimate cause of...

The following post is adapted from a handout I designed on "The Problem of Evil" in Oct. 2002. Please forgive the rather colloquial style that remains in the writing. A large variety of sources were used as I developed my thinking for this lesson, and I would be glad to point interested...

Speechless, I will not attempt to define what a Roman Catholic is in full. I hope that some of the Catholic contributors here will give you a summary of what they see to be the most important distinctives of Catholicism. One thing I do want to attempt in my reply to you is mark a very...

If God is not in control of every single molecule, then who or what is? Chance? Fate? Human beings? Denial of God's absolute control over all of reality amounts to the assertion that, at least in some area, someone or something else other than God is ultimate. But this could never be; for of...

FOR WHOM DID CHRIST DIE? "The Father imposed His wrath due unto, and the Son underwent punishment for, either: 1. All the sins of all men. 2. All the sins of some men, or 3. Some of the sins of all men. In which case it may be said: a. That if the last be true, all men have some sins to...