Perspective On Eternity

Rebuttal of  Chad Docterman's essay  " Why the Christian God is Impossible " My intention for this post is to write a detailed rebuttal of the arguments made by Chad Docterman’s essay on “why the Christian God is impossible.”   The main thesis of Docterman’s essay is that the Christian God’s attributes are self-contradictory.   He correctly understands what it means for something to be self-contradictory when he claims that God has “mutually exclusive attributes that make [His] existence impossible.”   Though he has a correct view of self-contradiction he in no way proves that God’s attributes are mutually exclusive.   I will not address every point made by Docterman because I trust that any reader can see that my arguments and answers to his objections can easily transfer to the points not directly addressed. "Perfection Seeks even more perfection" The argument that he makes in this section does not by necessity prove that God creating the wor

Sisyphus was condemned to pushing a boulder up a hill for all eternity only to have it fall to the other side.   Below is a short poem I wrote while studying Luke 14:25-35 and thinking about  the existentialist philosopher Albert Camus' discussion on the myth of Sisyphus .   In the former, Jesus speaks very strong words that would strike fear into anyone's heart..."Whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple"  (Luke 14:27).   In the latter, Camus is using Sisyphus (in the picture) to compare with the "workman of today" who works and works even though there is no ultimate purpose.   In thinking about the two I thought...What a greater weight to carry the cross than to push a boulder.  What a greater call we've been given.  We may have to experience pain, rejection, denial here...But what a great weight it is to carry knowing some day we will be in the presence of God (Rev 21) What A Greater Weight What a greater we