There are many examples in the Bible of God giving people no real choice in what they do. For example, when God sent Moses to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt, God said he would “harden Pharaoh’s heart that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in Read more…
Have you, or your child, or someone else you love been abused at a church? Have you been made to feel unwelcome at a church, or even been asked to leave? Have you felt neglected by people at a church? In other words, have you been hurt by someone at Read more…
In about 1535, as Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation was gaining traction in Europe, John Calvin published The Institutes of the Christian Religion, in which he argued that God has predestined every person on earth to either eternal salvation or eternal damnation, and that no one can change their eternal fate. Read more…
God takes a lot of unfair criticism when terrible things happen to us in life. I cannot give you a simple, sound-bite answer for why bad things happen, but there are answers. Let’s start with free will. Much of the misery and suffering in this life is the result of Read more…
In chapter five of Paul’s letter to the Romans, he tells us that sin and death entered the world through Adam, and then spread to all men. Why did God let that happen? Why did He let Adam and Eve sin? Free will. God gave them a choice, just as Read more…