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Your Future Depends on the Free Will of God
When scientists try to make predictions about the future based on past events, they are in grave error. Scientists often believe in a deterministic universe of causes and effects. They will look, for example, at someone’s medical history and give them a ‘prognosis’ based on records they have kept. But in reality, God controls the Continue reading
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Science is evil
Scientists are playing God. They aren’t healing anyone, they are harming everyone. The only thing anyone needs in order to be happy and healthy is a relationship with God. Continue reading
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Appreciating Creation
God has created an astonishing Universe. But it’s also true that God is unable to create free creatures, because free will is impossible with an omnipresent God. When we say ‘thank you’ to God in prayer, this is in a sense God talking to Himself. Nevertheless, as part of the cosmic game He is playing, Continue reading
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Perspective
I keep an ‘encouragement’ note on my phone and look at it whenever I’m struggling in life. It has about a dozen items on it, each one offering a different reminder that I hope will shift my perspective a little and make me feel a little brighter. It’s interesting to consider how important perspective is Continue reading
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The Age of God
The hymn I got baptised to is Abide With Me, a truly beautiful song with very emotive lyrics. I particularly like the phrase “Oh though who changest not” which we sing in the song in reference to God. God’s attribute of aseity leads us to understand that God is eternal. Unfortunately, the word eternal has Continue reading
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Being More Compassionate
God has been showing me how I need to be less judgmental of people who have suffered with prison sentences, addictions, homosexuality, broken marriages, etc. It’s not so much that I was being judgmental, more that in my fervent desire to help others not go to hell I wasn’t taking enough time to understand their Continue reading
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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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