A Sanctuary for Biblical Logic

Recently I recounted a certain of my painful past, not for the first time, to a kind and young pastor (same age as me) of a local church in his home after a lovely dinner with him, his wife and four young children. Thereafter, we also had a cordial and enjoyable eschatological debate and discussion over the most bitter Mao Shan Wang Black Gold durian I have ever tried. I am glad I have grown closer to this godly family for the past year or more. This re-sharing is for the purpose of informing him for the first time of my latest view of the situation. He asked in conclusion: how do you view God in all this suffering? Below is my short reflection of that question. God is the cause of salvation and damnation. He is the cause of righteousness and evil. He is the ultimate cause of all things without exception. Nothing exists and happens outside of Him. The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil (Proverbs 16:4).  I dare to say that God is the one

  This article is an expansion of my previous article “A Brief Thought on the Origin of Moral Evil”.    The origin of moral evil has baffled many Christian theologians throughout the ages. For many years, I have been thinking much about the topic of theodicy. If God is good, why is there evil? Many Christians concluded that God is the creator of everything except sin or moral evil because the infinitely good God cannot be involved with sin in any way. Satan and man are the sole causes, founders, and creators of sin. For many Christians, that’s the safety mark. However, I am not satisfied with that cowardly answer. I heartily agree with the famous Christian Counsellor, Jay Adams, who laid out the most basic theodicy question in his book “The Grand Demonstration: A Biblical Study of the So-called Problem of Evil”:   “To say that all evil is the result of the fall of Adam is perfectly true—but piteously inadequate. That response merely moves the question back a step: how could there

  Psa 146:1   Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul. Psa 146:2   While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. Praise starts with the Word of God filling the mind. Christianity is a thinking religion and is not a mindless religion. Religion is a devotion of the mind to certain doctrines and therefore the Christian religion is the mind’s devotion to the doctrines of the Bible. Those say that Christianity is not a religion but a relationship, is talking nonsense. He does not understand what he is saying and speaks without defining his own words. A relationship with Christ without the mind’s devotion to all the doctrines of the Bible (i.e. religion) is no relationship with Christ at all.   A practical religion is useless without a doctrinal religion. Emotions play zero part in Christianity. The belief in Christ which leads to salvation only involves the mind thinking of Soteriology and Christology. God commands the saved to con