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Well, if you live in an earthquake zone, then you are taking great risk, and that means you should be prepared. Also, you over exaggerated just a bit. Some places are safer to live than others, although no place is 100 percent safe. Again, much evil cam be minimized if you are prepared. A...
When it comes to nature, evil results from bad decision-making. This can be on our part: Doing something dumb like trying to live right next to a volcano. This can also be on the part of nature. I view all matter as alive, as having a subjective side. Hence, natural elements can also make bad...
Yes, the OT does see God as ordaining evil things on people. The OT Go can be very sadistic and cruel. That's why I hold the OT is only a partial revelation of god.
I don't agree, Ugmug, that God forgets our sins. God is all-knowing and that means God has complete and total recall for everything that his happened. He forgets nothing. That is the gourd of our meaningfulness. How can we cave meaning in an ever-changing world, where everything goes sup in...
There are, however, many documented cases where believers and non-believers do very well in romantic relationships. It all depends on how much weight you put on intellectual adherence to doctrine vs. howl much weight you put on how one lives.
I'm wondering if anyone is interested in classical music. I play French horn, also have an education in conducting. I love big, brassy classical religious works ,such as the Verdi Requiem, especially "Dies Irae, " Mahler Symphony No. 2, "The resurrection," etc. The cool thing is that you can...
It sounds like you are talking about some forms of biofeedback. These are largely ways of helping you gain conscious control over your anxieties, so that you can voluntarily relax yourself. Such relaxation techniques are widely used in psychotherapy and also in other forms of counseling, such...
There has been considerable misunderstanding about the term "Antichrist." The stereotypic image is of some huge demonic figure. However, that is in the public eye. Actually, in the Bible, there are only a couple of passages using the term "Antichrist," and what hey are taking about are...
I don't think God sits back and allows bad things to happen, as if he or she could have jumped in and prevented them. I also do not think God wills bad things on us. I think that problem is that we all have freedom, and that evil is a result of our bad decision making. To me, it makes little...
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