By: Bnonn|05 May, 2011|Categories: Theology|Tags: benevolence . common grace . God . hate . love . omnibenevolence . sin . sinners
A response to Stuart’s assertion that God’s wrath and hatred is exclusively reserved for sins, rather than sinners.
Read more »By: Stuart|18 December, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Religion . Theology|Tags: Christopher Southgate . Michael Lloyd . omnibenevolence . omnipotence . problem of evil . Theodicy
Christopher Southgate, author of The Groaning of Creation, denies a cosmic fall on the grounds that pain and predation are instrumental in the Darwinian process for producing values, such as consciousness, rationality and the “range, beauty, complexity, and diversity of creatures the Earth has produced.” He asserts that this was the “only way” that God could have achieved this. Stuart argues that this is incoherent if God is omnipotent, and offer a preferable argument that preserves God’s omnipotence.
Read more »By: Jason|01 December, 2010|Categories: Quotes|Tags: D. A. Carson . don carson . God . hate . holiness . holiness of God . love . omnibenevolence . rebels . sin . sinners . wrath
Don Carson, Research Professor of the New Testament, discusses the popular claim that God hates the sin but loves the sinner.
Read more »