The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.
I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!
An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.
Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us.
I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.
The problem with God is that we want him to reveal Himself, and He doesn't. We will never understand God.
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
There was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that he was their proper Messiah.
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
