In the last few posts, we have been examining faith. Generally speaking, faith is the willingness to rely on something that we do not have full knowledge of. Biblically speaking, faith is the expectation of something good, from a source or object that is not fully known, based on some previously validated knowledge and/or experience…
This post will finally address the question “What’s the Point?” The answer to which is also the meaning of life. It’s not even that hard. I don’t know why it’s given philosophers so much trouble over the centuries. To be fair, we’ve been given a significant advantage in answering this question. We know that God…
Free will and the nature of Man. In the last post we looked at the mechanics behind the origin of the universe and used all kinds of science-y concepts to explain how something can come from nothing (with the explanation that what we think of as “something” really is “nothing” because…oh, just read the last…
Based on human understanding, we know that the First Cause of existence is “right” and “just”; righteousness and justice describe the nature of the First Cause. The Judeo-Christian Bible gives us more details about the First Cause (God). Most of the characteristics that we attribute to God (merciful, holy, compassionate, all-knowing, all-mighty, etc.) are the…