The Bible and Slavery
If God is good, why does the Bible contain laws permitting people to own other people? Why do the apostles tell slaves to obey their masters? And why should someone trust a book that Christians have used to defend slavery?
If God is good, why does the Bible contain laws permitting people to own other people? Why do the apostles tell slaves to obey their masters? And why should someone trust a book that Christians have used to defend slavery?
He was raised Christian briefly, then went to orthodox Islam, then the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, then atheism, and now black power. He called into the live stream to tell me that a creator with only one way would be selfish. That conversation is worth writing down.
A pastoral-theological look at why most atheist objections to difficult biblical passages quietly assume what they need to prove, and why Plantinga's response to the logical problem of evil still cuts to the heart of the matter.
Neil deGrasse Tyson says war is bad. He’s right. But his secular worldview cannot explain why, and that gap matters more than he realizes.