What Can One Person Do — FREE Ebook!
Even the most uninitiated Christians realizes that the Christian life is a battle, and also that there are plenty of casualties around from this battle. They also realize that every child of God is part of the battle whether one wishes to participate or not. All this taken as a whole often looks like a [...]
Free Bible Survey Ebook Vol 001
(A Seminary In Every Home) A lot of people wish to have an “introduction” to Bible books that will tell them exactly what a certain book is about, what its outline is, who wrote it when and for whom etc. Thus we have started issuing a 66-volume Bible Survey at the end of which you [...]
The Problem of Evil: Lesson 06
Lesson 6: The Book of Job: the Bible’s Answer to the Problem of Evil Since the Bible, as God’s Word, gives us all that we need to know for salvation, it is not surprising that it has something to say on the problem of evil. The Psalmist deals with the question in several psalms: For [...]
The Problem of Evil: Lesson 05
Lesson 5: Hell ‘The idea of hell is morally absurd’ – B.C. Johnson A special instance of the problem of evil concerns Hell. Some critics and indeed some Christians argue that it is inconceivable that a loving God would condemn any of His creatures to an eternity of dreadful suffering and so they have tried [...]
The Problem of Evil: Lesson 04
Lesson 4: Other Theodicies In an attempt to respond to the apparent inadequacy of the theodicies based on free will and soul making Phillips (2004) has sought to replace these ‘conceptually bankrupt’ responses with the truly ‘religious’ response of ‘dieing to the I’ in which suffering teaches us that we are nothing and finds, not [...]
The Problem of Evil: Lesson 03
Lesson 3: ‘Morally Sufficient Reasons’ Philosopher Alvin Plantinga has shown that the atheist has not proved – logically – that a loving omnipotent God could not permit the existence of evil. This is because it is possible that a ‘morally sufficient reason’ may exist which justifies, in terms of some greater good, the persistence (for [...]
The Problem of Evil: Lesson 02
Lesson 2: Unacceptable Theodicies It is not only Christianity that has to face up to the problem of evil; Muslims and Jews (as monotheists) find the problem equally challenging and for Hindus and Buddhists suffering is at the heart of their world view. Even humanists must offer some sort of answer besides a mere shrug [...]
The Problem of Evil: Lesson 01
Every believer has at some point had to face up to the problems of evil, pain and Hell. It is one of the most common arguments put forward by militant atheists against the existence of the Biblical God and it is one of the most serious issues that the Christian apologist has to address when [...]
Doctrine of Trinity: Free Course Lesson 06
Trinity: Free Course Lesson 06 QUESTIONS The questions given below are intended to help the readers see how unreasonable the arguments put forward by those who question Trinity. If the opponents of Trinity write down the answers of these questions and then examine them truthfully, they will definitely come to the conclusion that the proofs [...]
Doctrine of Trinity: Free Course Lesson 05
Trinity: Free Course Lesson 05 CONSEQUENCES OF THE REJECTION OF TRINITY Those who reject the concept of Trinity are found to believe in several ideas, which have no basis in the Word of God. The reason for this is the fact that Trinity is the most important theological revelation in the Bible and its rejection [...]
