To believe that God is perfectly good despite the sin, evil, and suffering that exists in this world is a challenge that every Christian must wrestle with to at least some extent. This is called the problem of theodicy.
I believe that it's only if God is fully good that …
If you have ever attended a Christian church, I hope that you would have heard things like:
As part of my preparation for my dissertation defence in August 2021, I was asked to think about why my doctoral research matters to the church.
At first glance, I admit that my investigation into why the eighteenth-century Puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards believed that God predestines most people to hell …
In the Easter story, Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane before he is about to be betrayed by Judas and arrested, brought to trial, and shortly thereafter, crucified.
All three synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke) record that when Jesus was in Gethsemane, he prayed,
Father, if you are willing …
I came across a book chapter titled "Open Theism in the Hands of an Angry Puritan: Jonathan Edwards on Divine Foreknowledge" by C. Samuel Storms.1 Storms tries to use Jonathan Edwards' arguments about God's foreknowledge to refute open theism.
Since I wrote my Master of Theological Studies thesis on …
One sentence spoken by Jesus had always perplexed me: "You are my friends if you do what I command you" (John 15:14).
I always thought to myself, "What sort of person would demand that their friends obey them in order to be considered their friends? Who would say they …
For my PhD dissertation, I am studying the American pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards, who lived in the 1700s.
To me, one of his most interesting writings is titled "Concerning The End for Which God Created the World," sometimes shortened to "End of Creation". It was one of the last …
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