We all experience unhappiness to one degree or another. Our lives are filled with feeble attempts at rectifying our situation. If we believe that the world is devoid of spirit then our only solace is in the physical things of this world. However, acquiring material stuff to make us happy is nothing more than failed electro-shop therapy. If you are an atheist, you have no spiritual place to turn for relief and are forced to resort to the only things…..
The world has a problem, that’s no secret. The life of every human being can be understood as a search for the proper solution. We need to respect the fact that others have put some thought and effort into this conflict, but we also need to have the decency to tell them a Band-Aid is hardly adequate therapy for a hemorrhaging soul. Adam and Eve had one single rule put before them in the Garden. They were instructed to avoid…..
Christians are frequently criticized for believing in a God that allows, or even promotes, evil, pain, and suffering. The critics make the case that the attributes of God are inconsistent with the presence of evil in the world. How can we defend an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnibenevolent God when pain and suffering are so omnipresent?…..