This will be brief (I know, you’re amazed). Basically, the message of Job is fairly simple, but some would say not very comforting. When Job and God have their conversation at the end of the book, God’s answer to his (and the reader’s) implicit...
Doctrine of God
Second Follow Up on God and Haiti Post
This is another note in response to Jonathan’s question about my God and Haiti post. There are two causes of suffering in the world:Â natural disasters and human evil. The former is part of creation; the latter was not “arranged” by God, but was a...
God and Haiti
The impact of the catastrophic earthquake last week in Haiti is still rippling through the small, impoverished country. The scale of the tragedy is still building to its full crescendo of horror. But even now the calamity prompts questions concerning the whereabouts...
God’s Sovereignty and Nature’s Freedom
I liked this article since parts of it resonate with my own view of sovereignty and free will (the latter does not rule out the former) blogged long ago here at the Naked Bible. Genuine freedom is part of humanity because it is a communicable attribute we receive as...
The Myth of the LATENESS of the Belief in Jesus as Incarnate Deity
At first glance, you might wonder why this is PaleoBabble fodder. Having just returned from the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (this year in Boston), I was reminded again how even scholars have an insular perspective. This is especially true of...
God and Disaster
I just saw this on John Hobbins’ blog, Ancient Hebrew Poetry. John’s a friend of mine, and his blog is a good one. He writes: Eastern Orthodox theologian David B. Hart blasts away at all the latter-day comforters of Job, who, in the wake of the disasters...
ET Gods in the Garden of Eden?
I thought I’d share a recent email I received from someone with a question about a new book that claims that one version (source) of the book of Genesis teaches readers that humankind was created by a group of gods: >> Hello Michael, I was talking with...