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Oct 5, 2020

Knowing What to Pray

Hello, friends. Have you ever had anxiety around your prayer life, wondering whether you are praying in a way that is ‘correct’ or ‘effective’? In this article, I would like to share how I recently overcame a kind of blockage in my prayer life which was making me feel very frustrated. In recent years, I… Continue reading

Christianity

faith, God, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Philosophy, prayer, religion, Spirituality, Theology
Sep 16, 2020

Eternal Conscious Torment?

Greetings, friends. This article is an update on my theological explorations, and my attempt to fully understand whether I can reconcile my belief in God’s sovereign control over the unfolding of all events with the Christian gospel. When Christians discuss the doctrine of hell, they usually take one of three positions: traditionalism, conditionalism, or universalism.… Continue reading

Theology

afterlife, annihilationism, Christianity, death, Doctrine, faith, Free Will, Life After Death, Philosophy, Predestination, Spirituality, Universalism, views of hell
Aug 29, 2020

The Severity of God

Is it wise to reject the Christian worldview on the grounds that one doesn’t believe God would be as severe and punishing as the Bible portrays? Or should one accept that God causes terrible suffering and embrace the Christian worldview, even though it could make it difficult to love God genuinely knowing how severe He… Continue reading

Christianity

Bible, Double Predestination, faith, Free Will, God, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Philosophy, religion, Scripture, suffering, Theology, truth
Aug 26, 2020

God’s Freedom and Human Suffering

Hello again folks. I know I’ve been posting quite frequently, but there’s a lot that’s been going through my mind and blogging helps me to process it. Also, the discussions in the comments have been really good recently and it’s helpful learning about the way other people see these issues. I wrote yesterday about the… Continue reading

Christianity

Christian doctrine, Double Predestination, faith, Free Will, God, heaven and hell, Philosophy, religion, Romans 9, Spirituality, suffering, the problem of evil, Theology
Aug 25, 2020

Double Predestination

In the early hours of this morning, I picked up a Bible for the first time in a while and read through the book of Revelation. I suspected before I began reading that I would be drawn back into the Christian worldview, as the words of the Bible always communicate in a powerful way. I… Continue reading

Theology

Bible, book of Revelation, calvinism, Christianity, Doctrine, Double Predestination, faith, Philosophy, Scripture, Spirituality
Aug 19, 2020

What is Wisdom and Who is Wise?

Age is often equated with wisdom. This belief is based on the idea that knowledge is something which is accumulated, but I dispute this. I don’t believe knowledge and experience are things that are stored up, as many people believe, in the cells of our brains. I don’t believe that in any given moment a… Continue reading

Philosophy

Christianity, epistemology, faith, God, knowledge, neuroscience, old and wise, religion, Spirituality, the cosmic animator, the human brain, Theology, wisdom

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My name is Steven Nicholas Colborne.
I’m a philosopher and author living in the United Kingdom. On this blog, I write about matters of philosophy and religion and share a variety of personal articles.

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