One of my favorite quotes from Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis: “We begin to notice, besides our particular sinful acts, our sinfulness; begin to be alarmed not only about what we do, but about what we are. This may sound rather difficult, so I will try to make it clear from my own case. When
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What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? Psalm 8:4 What is man, that he should be clean? And he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean
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I have a problem: I’m terribly prideful. When I sit down to consider my life, I’m filled with a sort of warm, complacent glow at the thought that I’m such a brilliant, lovely person, with such a brilliant, lovely future ahead of me. And this self-satisfaction often distresses me, because I know that I ought
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This is my third reflection on my debates with my atheist uncle over Christianity. One of this favorite things to say was something like “Wouldn’t a just/loving/powerful God do x differently?” Wouldn’t a loving God make the world without suffering? Wouldn’t a powerful God make people so that they were less sinful? Wouldn’t a just
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My family from around the world (from Mexico to Pennsylvania to Northern California) recently assembled in Capistrano Beach for some family bonding. Since the Fourth of July, I have been in a series of arguments with one of my atheist uncles about God. My uncle has asked several times during the course of our arguments,
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When I was about fifteen, I wrote an essay entitled “The gods are unjust” about Oedipus Rex, the ancient play by Sophocles – it is one of the great Greek Tragedies, replete with chorus and tragic hero. It was my first tragedy. Oedipus was condemned by Apollo’s prophecy, related by an oracle, to kill his
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With July 4th around the corner, we are reminded of and humbled by the incredible freedom that we are permitted in this country. Despite this, we often overlook the greatest freedom that we have been given. As humans, it is our natural inclination to believe that there is greater freedom outside of God’s will than there
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