There are many others who point out that sometimes God's responses change, because He: alters course, changes His ...

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Psalm 23 is one of the most beloved passages in scripture because it speaks directly to the human experience, our fears, our ...

Different voices that span a long period of time converge in the book of the prophet Isaiah, whose authorship and inspiration are all attributed to this great witness to God's word, who lived in the ...

In the 90th psalm, Moses prays about the stark difference between the Lord and mankind. Though we are made in his image and bear his likeness, the man of God explains that God is eternal and man is ...

What happened to the ancient Aztec, Babylonian, Celtic, Egyptian, Greek, Mayan, Norse, Roman and Sumerian gods and goddesses? God seems to be becoming diverse. With indifference towards religion and ...

Why would a loving God allow someone to be tortured eternally? I wouldn't, and surely I am more of a jerk than God. As I've written several times, I find belief in Hell (by which I mean a place of ...

This past week we celebrated the ascension of Jesus – an occasion that seems to have an almost mystical quality about it – and thus, as it straddles both the physical “earthly” realm and the spiritual ...

Last time, we began to unpack Friedrich Nietzsche’s “God is dead” philosophy by looking at his assertion that there is no objective (absolute) truth or moral values, and that could only happen with ...