In every generation, some religious believers imagine their time to be the end time. Why is this so? What makes the end time so compelling, even intoxicating? What...
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What happens in God’s judgment? If God really exists, and the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are in any way true, what are the scriptural...
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A judgment sounds foreboding. Most religions that believe in God, or in life beyond the physical, also believe in some kind of final judgment. Whether the active decision of...
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What kind of God would create Hell? Does the nature of Hell offer insight into what that kind of God would be like? Does the truth of Christianity, Judaism, Islam depend on...
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How does God’s judgment work? Almost every culture calls for a judgment at the end of our lives. Whether given by God at a fixed moment, or set by recurring process in...
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Why is an ‘open’ future controversial among theologians? If the future is not ‘settled’, if there is no certainty from God’s viewpoint of how...
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For God not to know the future in every last detail threatens traditional theologies. There’d be worry over God’s providence, God’s promises. If the future...
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What would it mean for God to know the future? Know the general patterns of history and lives? Or know every last, minute fact about every possible thing that happens? Next,...
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How to imagine the experience of eternal life? Would we sense ourselves? How would we feel? Whom would we know? What would we do? What would God do? Living forever seems so...
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Every religion thunders its day of reckoning. To examine God’s judgment is to probe God’s character and perhaps assess God’s existence. If God does not...
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God needs perfect knowledge in order to be God, which includes knowing now exactly how future events will unfold. Does this mean that God knows everything about what is to...
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Does God know all future events? Only if the future is in some real sense already determined. God, to be God, must know every true proposition, including all about the...
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