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By Shandon Guthrie I. Introduction Contemporary news coverage bombards us with stories about enormous casualties and prodigious sufferings that occur in the world. Anyone can simply look to their neighbor or their own lives and see the presence of misfortune running rampant in one manifestation or another. This problem has impinged upon the issue [...]
By Peter Kreeft The answer must be someone, not just something. For the problem (suffering) is about someone (God—why does he… why doesn’t he …?) rather than just something. To question God’s goodness is not just an intellectual experiment. It is rebellion or tears. It is a little child with tears in its eyes [...]
By Peter Kreeft The problem of evil is the most serious problem in the world. It is also the one serious objection to the existence of God. When Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote his great Summa Theologica, he could find only two objections to the existence of God, even though he tried to list at [...]
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By John Lennox, Ph.D. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXH1gWO00Xo] By Ravi Zacharias This video lasts 7:29 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9b0PJDDof4]
By Clinton E. Arnold Many modern scholars regard belief in demons as a primitive worldview that includes elves, dragons, and a flat world. They contend that the advent of modern science, especially advances in understanding body chemistry, psychology, and neurology, enables better understanding of the phenomena the ancients attributed to the work of demons. [...]
By Thomas Hibbs With the record-setting release of The Dark Knight, his sequel to Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan, whose previous films include Memento, Insomnia, and The Prestige, stakes his claim to be our most inventive and most philosophical filmmaker. He has certainly surpassed M. Night Shyamalan, whose latest release The Happening was his third [...] By James C. Patterson II, MD, Ph.D People who hold to a naturalistic worldview find the Christian concept of a Creator difficult enough. But when it comes to the dark world of demonic possession, supernaturalism can seem downright silly. Analysis of a recent patient (who lacked major clinical psychiatric illness, yet displayed bona fide [...]
By Roger Boyes Hundreds of Germans, tortured by inner voices, are on the search for priests who can free them from what they believe to be the grip of the Devil, according to an extraordinary radio documentary that has stirred an awkward debate about exorcism in the Catholic Church. “Over the past year alone [...]
Ottawa’s former exorcist, a 78-year-old priest in poor health, agreed to talk to the Citizen, on the condition he not be named. Q: Did you always believe in the devil? A: We knew about him because we had catechism classes in the summer, but it didn’t seem close to our [...] |
  
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