Is the absence of suffering (at least anywhere close to the one received by first century christians) indicates that I am not living as a christian should live?
To be Christian is to suffer. Jesus said believers needed to pick up their crosses every day.
To understand the reasoning, we must study what the offer from God to believers is. It's not avoiding hell and going to heaven. Salvation is partnering with God to complete creation, subduing the earth. A car that does not transport its passengers to their destination is called dead. A power drill which does not switch on is also called d…
To be Christian is to suffer. Jesus said believers needed to pick up their crosses every day.
To understand the reasoning, we must study what the offer from God to believers is. It's not avoiding hell and going to heaven. Salvation is partnering with God to complete creation, subduing the earth. A car that does not transport its passengers to their destination is called dead. A power drill which does not switch on is also called d…
People don't really hate Christians any more than they hate any other group. In much of the world, Christians have a place of privilege, embedded in society to such an extent that it's assumed that everyone you meet is a Christian, and Christian holidays and norms are part of the social calendar....
Have there been any critiques of Feser in academia, particularly philosophy of religion? I'd also like to see if there have been critiques of Aristotelian-Thomism which is what Feser's framework is for two of his arguments in his book, "Five Proofs for Existence of God."
Recently I know that Gra...
What should be done or is there a protocol to be inaugurated if someone offers a bounty on another’s question and the body seems to alter the question too much.
For example, this question has a bounty but the body of the bounty seems to alter the OP’s original question into something else.
Ho...
