Category Archives: Existence of God
Difficult Text, Good Question, Quick Answer: Sticks, Stoning and the Sabbath
Q: I can’t make much sense of this story; it seems as if God is acting in an unfair, unjust manner.
Numbers 15 v 32 One day while the people of Israel were in the wilderness, one of them was caught gathering wood on the Sabbath day.33 He was arrested and taken before Moses and Aaron and the other judges.34 They jailed him until they could find out the Lord’s mind concerning him.
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Tagged Difficult Texts, Revelation, The Bible Tells Me So!
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David Hume, Miracles and the Speculations of The Spectator
In a recent article in the Spectator, Matthew Parris writes:
I wish I were a religious conservative: the field’s wide open. It must be dispiriting for believers to encounter so little intelligent support for belief. It’s certainly infuriating for us non-believers, because there’s hardly anyone left who seems capable of giving us a good argument.
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