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A Stone In The Shoe

Something you can't forget about

Category: Philosophy

Philosophical reasoning and Christianity

God's Goals or Purposes For Humanity

Thomas Less, December 28, 2011

No one can properly consider the validity of Christianity or God unless they try to understand the purpose and motivation of God.  I cannot even pretend to know all about His goal for humanity, but I will present some of what we know from the Bible.

Now you may reject the Bible as the Word of God, but if we are discussing who the Christian God is and what his …

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Who Is The Christian God?

Thomas Less, December 27, 2011

I think we must first be clear on just who is the Christian God. It would be impossible to intelligently discuss God and Christianity without a firm idea of who Christianity claims God is. I also think most of the problems we have with understanding Christianity come from our inability to see things from God’s point of view.  In reading this don’t forget that the Bible is the defining source …

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The Fundamental Ability To See The Perspective

Thomas Less, November 1, 2011

perspective01dThis post is an email exchange between an atheist friend and myself.  I will add to this as the conversation continues.

Dear Friend,

I have a story below I would like to use to initiate a conversation.  Please don’t look at this as a set up for a trap and try to find a way around it.  You know I’m not out to “win” and I won’t “rub your nose …

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A True Story We Can Learn From – Please Give Me Feedback

Thomas Less, October 23, 2011

A True Story

There once were two men who both had a lot of land.  In some places their land was very, very close to each other, in other places more distant.  For the sake of storytelling, lets name them Edwin and Alfred.

After a while Edwin decided he really wanted a certain piece of Alfred’s land.  He knew it was a prized piece of land and Alfred would not …

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If God is all-knowing, and God doesn't change his mind, why pray?

Thomas Less, December 3, 2010

Questions: Shouldn’t prayer be useless? Imagine you are a young teenager and your mom is sick in the hospital with cancer and almost about to die. You pray to god that she be healed and make a full recovery, but this is pointless for two reasons that go very well together. 1) God is all-knowing and has a perfect plan for you and he is never-changing (Number 23:19). God, being …

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I won’t believe in something I can’t understand. “Just have faith” just won’t work for me.

Thomas Less, November 26, 2010

You said you were tired of people telling you to just have faith. I agreed that too often people say that as opposed to studying, thinking and investigating. However, feeling like you need to understand everything is also not a good idea for 1 reasons.

First, the need to understand everything keeps you from progressing. I’ll use this line and points as an example.

___________A     B____________C             D__________E                  _________

Imagine that …

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Why would anyone be attracted to Christianity?

Thomas Less, November 25, 2010

If you are looking at which religion show the most increase in adherents, Christianity is the fastest growing religion in the world.  To ask why, is very reasonable.  It doesn’t really fit into my discussion here, but I like the answer so well I am posting it anyway. 

I think the best answer for this was written by Dinesh d’Souza in a book call “What’s So Great About Christianity” and …

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How can God justify punishing Adam and Eve for eating from the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil", when before they ate from it they didn't understand good and evil?

Thomas Less, November 20, 2010

This was a very interesting question I had never been presented with before, and at first I found it very perplexing.  But after consideration and prayer, it actually lead me to greater faith.

First, we need to clarify that someone can do wrong without necessarily understanding why what they did was wrong.  For example, if you tell a child not to throw stones, and they throw a stone, they have …

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If God wants us to be close to him, why doesn't he just clearly reveal himself to the world? It is unfair of him to condemn anyone since he doesn't reveal himself clearly.

Thomas Less, November 5, 2010

Your question at first seems reasonable and your assertion correct, but even in our small human lives we don’t do what you are asking God to do. 

Imagine you are man fortunate enough to have a great wife.  You and your wife love each other immensely and are also intensely passionate toward each other.  Your marriage is every person’s dream.  Also imagine you are a father and you have a …

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How can you take the Bible, or the Christian God seriously today? For example: The Bible says an adulteress woman should be stoned. You wouldn't do that today.

Thomas Less, November 3, 2010

Again, this question is really answered in the previous two posts,   and  , but I want to take the opportunity to explain something very important about the Bible.

When you take something from the Bible, you must take it from the context of the entire Bible, Old Testament and New Testament, and try to understand it from the perspective of the true author, which I believe is God, so he …

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