Free Will
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Beard Trimming and God
Yesterday, I was trimming my beard using a small pair of metal nail scissors, and I very nearly cut my ear. It’s always a little treacherous trimming around the ear area because the way the mirror reflects light means I sometimes think left is right and right is left. Dear reader, I know you understand!… Continue reading
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Suffering, God, and Covid-19
Is God responsible for human suffering? This question has been a major consideration of mine ever since God revealed Himself to me and I became a Christian back in 2008. I have considered Biblical interpretations of suffering, and have also explored a range of non-Christian arguments as to why we suffer, including those from Eastern… Continue reading
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Trust in Him
God is awesome, majestic, wonderful, glorious, wise, humorous, grand, mysterious, mighty, and greatly to be feared. God is masterful in His creativity, He’s a friend to the poor in spirit, He’s the solution to every problem, the answer to every question, the peace in the midst of the chaos, the cure for every ailment. God… Continue reading
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Deep Thoughts About God (series outro)
Hello everyone! I have made a brief video summarising what I hoped to achieve in my Deep Thoughts About God video series, which is now complete. There are twenty videos in the series, and I hope you have had an opportunity to watch some or all of them, and that you have found the content… Continue reading
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Molinism Refuted (video)
We’re nearing the end of my Deep Thoughts About God video series now, with only a further two videos to come after today’s instalment. I really hope you’ve found the series interesting and thought provoking! In this week’s video, I discuss the theological perspective known as Molinism. This is a perspective which attempts to reconcile… Continue reading
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The Confusion of Calvinism (video)
An emphasis on the sovereignty of God is a powerfully attractive element of the theological framework known as Calvinism. However, I believe Calvinist theology suffers from a serious problem, which is the difficulty of trying to hold on to the fundamental Christian belief in free will, while at the same time emphasising the sovereignty of… Continue reading
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My name is Steven Nicholas Colborne.
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