“Why are you weeping?” I said. He turned his head slightly to look at me and then turned back to look into the night sky. He was seated on a log freshly cut down. “My children have been snatched away. They are in grave...
Read More“Adam and Eve wanted to be like you, knowing good and evil. Why is that so bad?” “Because those are two entirely different things, being “like me” and “knowing good and evil”. They knew evil by experiencing evil. ...
Read MoreThe problem with taking a leap of faith is the falling. That feeling that everything is out of control, that you are rushing toward your own demise and there is nothing you can do about it. The only question is when it would...
Read MoreWhat is interesting is that even many secular philosophers believe that this is the best place to ask the hard questions of life – in the face of death. This is where honesty is found, where reality reigns, where the...
Read MoreThese words are inspiring. This perspective on life is genuine. Who can resist the call to become a “god” over his or her own life? Who doesn’t recognize the tyranny of public opinion and our incessant need for the approval...
Read MoreRather than trying to become “gods” ourselves, we may want to consider an alternative approach and seek out the true God of life and death, the Creator, the one who started it all and has conquered the power of sin (i.e....
Read MoreThere is one thing in which the philosophers are exactly right. It is when we face the finality and finitude of our own, personal death that we are forced to reexamine our lives. Perhaps that is the true purpose of death – to...
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