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  • A Will At Odds With God’s

    Jesus had a will at odds with God’s. This is important because it means that your will can be at odds with God’s without leading to sin. When Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as…

  • Changing My Mind

    Most of us believe a myth about how knowledge is acquired, especially about how we ourselves go from ignorance and error to knowledge and truth. We tell ourselves that when evident facts contradict what we believe, then we will change our minds. That has not been my experience. Deeply held beliefs require a lot of…

  • Letting Evil Win

    When God created the world and everything in it, his appraisal of all he had made was that it was very good. Every good gift comes from God, and he is incapable of doing evil because his very nature is love. Evil entered the world when people first began to suspect that God was not…

  • Patience and Power

    Love begins with patience. Fundamental to every act of love is respect for the agency of the one loved. This is the main reason why God does not intervene in ways we think he should to prevent war, pestilence, famine, and other causes of large-scale suffering. His intervention takes the form of individual acts of…

  • Doing God’s Will

    In Matthew 7:21–23, Jesus warns his followers against a facile faith that trusts in saying the right words and doing notable deeds in his name. Not everyone who calls him Lord will enter his kingdom, but only those who do his Father’s will. Then he declares that on Judgment Day, many will appear before him,…

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