For several posts, I’ve been making the case that God doesn’t go around killing Christ-followers, causing them disasters, and the like. In this post we’ll tackle the subject of suffering for Jesus’ and/or righteousness’ sake. What is Suffering for Jesus’ Sake? To determine what “suffering for Jesus” is, we first have to figure out what it’s not. Basically,… Read More »
Over the last few posts, I’ve been making the case that God doesn’t go around killing Christ-followers, inflicting them with diseases, stealing their jobs or homes, etc., etc. In these, we’ve covered several aspects of this issue, such as our covenant with God, the believer’s authority on this earth, the promises of God, and the role of Satan… Read More »
Any time you start proclaiming to Christ-followers of certain doctrinal persuasions that God is not a cosmic child abuser inflicting disaster, death, and destruction upon His children to “teach them something,” almost always the first objection you will encounter is this challenge: “Well, what about Job?” This challenge is waved about as if some kind of a magic… Read More »
Lately I’ve been making the case that the God of the Bible does not go around killing His children, inflicting them with diseases, or causing disasters. In my previous post, we covered how God is indeed sovereign, but He has limited His sovereignty in this earth by His own will. There, we discussed the first way He had… Read More »
Lately I’ve been talking about how God doesn’t kill or visit sickness and disasters upon His children. Whenever you raise this topic with Christ-followers of certain doctrinal persuasions, one of the first objections they make concerns the sovereignty of God. Lest I be accused of burying the lead, let me be perfectly clear: God is indeed Ruler of… Read More »
I have consistently taken the stand that the God of the Bible does not go around killing His children, inflicting them with diseases, or causing disasters. Many people contest this claim, asking, “Well, what about the Old Testament?” Whole books have been written about this; I’m not going to delve into the subject in near that kind of… Read More »
