Showing posts with label suffering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suffering. Show all posts
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Animal suffering in the Old Testament

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Jeremiah 14:1 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. 14:2 Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black ...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11 by Thomas Watson. Excerpt 67

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Watson continues his argument for a Christian being contented: Sect. XII. The twelfth argument to contentation is, Whatever change of trou...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

The mission of Christ

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The Bible says a lot about the mission of Christ. Here are a few of the highlights. All Bible quotations are from the World English Bible, w...
Friday, September 05, 2014

Why is there evil in the world?

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Why is there evil in the world ? The classic Christian answer is this: When God created people, He gave them the power to choose. I...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Prayer and Trouble, part 11, by E. M. Bounds

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In the New Testament there are three words used which embrace trouble. These are tribulation, suffering and affliction, words differing some...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Job, Harry Potter and misery

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If there is a God, and He is even close to all-powerful, why is there suffering? (If there is a god who isn't even close to being all-po...
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Thursday, May 03, 2012

Counted worthy

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The phrase, or idea, of being counted worthy of being a follower of Christ occurs a few times in the New Testament. Some of these times are ...
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Sunday, September 04, 2011

Prayers in the Bible: Job prays, even when adversity comes

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Job 1:18 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in thei...
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

"Creation" - the movie, Darwin, pain and suffering

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I did not see the movie, Creation , which is about the life of Charles Darwin , when it came out. I may not see it. One aspect of Darwin...
Monday, January 21, 2008

Where is God when things hurt us badly? pt. 4

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This is the fourth in a series of posts. The most recent is here . I realized, this morning during church (The pastor was speaking about Job...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Where is God when things hurt us badly, pt. 3

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In previous posts, here and here , I considered the problem posed by the post title. One comment on the first post was as follows: David B....
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Monday, January 07, 2008

Where is God when things hurt us badly? pt. 2

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In a recent post, " Where is God when things hurt us badly? " I quoted from two important works of science fiction, which have tha...
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Friday, January 04, 2008

Where is God when things hurt us badly?

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Theresia hugged her knees. "It hurts," she said again. "Why has God abandoned us?" Gregor asked. Dietrich tried to pry T...
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