If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, then all our efforts are in the long run hopeless. But if it is, then we are making ourselves enemies to that goodness every day, and are not in the least likely to do any better tomorrow, and so our case is hopeless again. We [...]
I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a greeat moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and [...]
Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
- Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician, (1623-1662)
It is written that we shall “stand before” Him, shall appear, shall be inspected. The promise of glory is the promise, almost incredible and only possible by the work of Christ, that some of us, that any of us who really chooses, shall actually survive that examination, shall find approval, shall please God. To please [...]
Can't Trust Those Genes
Skeptics who argue that belief in God (indeed, God’s very existence) is nothing more than a genetic artifact of our evolutionary development, may be a little unsettled to hear what John Cleese has learned about such notions.
