Following a recent essay discussing the worldview of postmodern liberalism, I received a response, as follows: Your essay would have value if there were absolutes. Never have been, never will be … We decide what is good and what is evil, and in every case we are right and wrong at one and the same…
Category: Difficult Questions
Essays addressing difficult areas of Christianity
2. The Temperature of Hell
This is the second of two posts on the subject of Hell. The first may be found here: The Death of Hell On an earlier post about grace and Karma, a commenter posed this question: I’d like to ask you a question because you strike me as an intelligent man of faith. I was taught…
1. The Death of Hell
After a recent essay about grace and Karma, I was asked a challenging question: I was taught that hell is a place of eternal conscious torment, a nice euphemism for a torture chamber. Do you believe that those of us who fail to accept grace will be tortured? If not, why not? Augustine and Calvin…
God of Loss and Grace
There is no answer to the question why? in the walk of faith. It is a foolish question — we could not understand the answer were it given, and to know why would destroy the how, and the when, and the for which purpose. The answer is unfathomable. To know why? is to be God — and despite my aspirations, I don’t have the resume for the job.