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Oct 18, 2017

Gender and Sexuality

Attitudes towards gender and sexuality have been changing at a drastic pace in societies around the world in recent years. This is very challenging for Christians, who generally believe there is something sacred about maleness and femaleness, and that gender fluidity is not something that is healthy, or approved of by God. In my own… Continue reading

Christianity, Doctrine, Morality and Ethics

church, faith, gender, homosexuality, identity, LGBT, Mental Health, Primer, sexuality, Theology, transgender
Sep 14, 2017

Hearing Voices or Hearing God?

Have you ever heard a Christian say, “God placed it on my heart” to do such and such? Let’s take a brief look at what a statement like this might mean, and what it says about the relationship between God and human beings. Continue reading

Mental Health, Panentheism

Christianity, faith, God, hearing voices, materialism, mind, omnipresence, religion, science, Spirituality, Theology
Mar 31, 2017

‘Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus’ by Nabeel Qureshi (book review)

I’m truly fascinated by the beliefs of others. One of the main focuses of this blog is to look at different religious beliefs and criticise them, always with the ambition of discovering and expounding truths about God and the world. So I was excited to read this book by Nabeel Qureshi which, as you will… Continue reading

Book Reviews, Christianity

apologetics, book review, dialogue, faith, Interfaith, Islam, Jesus, Nabeel Qureshi, Theology, truth
Nov 25, 2016

The Authority of Scripture

The question of authority in matters of faith is important for any believer in God to consider. How can we know with any degree of certainty what God expects of us? Within Christianity specifically, we have to consider whether the Bible is infallible and inerrant and should be considered the sole rule of faith for… Continue reading

Doctrine, God, Scripture

Bible, Christianity, epistemology, faith, Holy Bible, interpretation, the Gospel, Theology, truth
Oct 24, 2016

Does God Have Foreknowledge?

The problem with claiming God has ‘foreknowledge’ is that it implies all future events are already determined. This would only be the case in a kind of clockwork universe where cause leads to effect and nothing can change the wheels that have been set in motion, presumably in the first moment of creation, as those… Continue reading

Doctrine, Panentheism

Christianity, divinity, faith, foreknowledge, God, ontology, reality, Theology
Oct 23, 2016

God’s Omnipresence and the Incarnation

I often hear Christians speaking of what a miraculous and wonderful thing it is that God chose to enter into His own creation in the person of Jesus Christ in the event known as the Incarnation. The problem with this notion is that it implies that God is normally somehow separated from creation. How can… Continue reading

Christianity, Doctrine

creation, faith, Free Will, God, incarnation, Jesus, omipresence, Panentheism, religion, Spirituality

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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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