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How to think about God afresh? Can we consider God—God’s possible existence, God’s essence and nature—without preconceived assumptions or biases? What...
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Almost all religions promise eternal life. In one form or another, the message goes forth that death is not final. But each religion paints its own portrait of the hereafter:...
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Episode 12
Season 03
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Whether God exists may depend on whether God is necessary. ‘Necessary’, in the philosophical sense, means ‘impossible not to exist’. Even if God...
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Is probability a deep probe of how the world works at fundamental levels? Or is probability merely a tool of human perception in trying to discern what is true and what is...
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How on earth could God be reconciled with massive, monstrous Evil? If God is all-powerful and all-knowing, and if God is the creator, wouldn’t God be responsible for evil?
Episode 02
Season 14
26:47
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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The search for God leads to strange ideas. Panentheism claims that the world is in God but God is more than the world. The idea is to take from pantheism a natural order and...
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Is our search for God too narrow? Why do some philosophers espouse ‘pantheism’? Pantheism’s claim is not shy: God is the Cosmos and the Cosmos is God. But...
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Almost all religions offer some kind of life or awareness after physical death. Speculations of what such life after death might be like—the form it might take, how we...
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Many theologians take angels and demons seriously. Why? Certainly, most human beings believe in angels and demons. Certainly, such nonphysical beings, in one form or another,...
Episode 10
Season 04
If God is perfect, does this mean that God cannot change? Since perfection cannot be improved, would any change diminish God’s perfection? But a changeless God has...
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