Free Will
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Deep Thoughts About God (video series)
Back in March 2019, I released a book entitled God’s Grand Game: Divine Sovereignty and the Cosmic Playground, which contains a comprehensive exposition of my philosophical perspective. The book explores the divine sovereignty versus human free will predicament with reference to the doctrines of Christianity and other religions (as well as the scientific worldview) and Continue reading
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Re-imagining Everyday Language in Light of God’s Sovereignty
Last year, I began a blog series called Praise and Prose in which my aim was to do exactly what the title of this blog post expresses. It was an interesting exercise, and definitely worthwhile. I actually planned to publish more posts as part of that series than I did, potentially turning the series into Continue reading
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Why Did God Choose to Create?
Greetings, friends of the blog. Today, I’d like to share some thoughts in relation to the question of why God might have chosen to create human beings and other creatures. In my book God’s Grand Game: Divine Sovereignty and the Cosmic Playground I speculated that one reason why God might have chosen to create could Continue reading
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Your Regrets vs God’s Will
Quite often, when people talk about things that they regret having happened at a certain time in their past, they will use phrases such as “I messed up” or “I did my best” or “I can’t believe I did that”. Using such phrases is a widely accepted and commonplace manner of speaking, but in this Continue reading
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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
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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
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My name is Steven Nicholas Colborne.
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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy whole heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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