Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 10:42AM | by Otter 
Napoleon facing the stumbling blocks of Satan, 1812, while trying to do God's will.When Christians cease to look for the spiritual enemy in circumstances and instead look for the image of God even in twisted, difficult circumstances, it may be that Christianity makes a little moral sense.
God's Will, Satan Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at 8:55AM | by Otter Do we mean that all things are sort of automatically conforming to God's will? Or will eventually? Or what?
No, I think this is not at all simple, at least not taken as a matter of philosophy or theology. Indeed, if this is about God, I think it makes matters far worse.
But Rachel's last thought strikes me as so productive that it might make sense of Christianity...
Christianity, God's Will, Heaven, Jesus, Plato in Biblical Interpretation, Religion Friday, October 8, 2010 at 8:22AM | by Otter Calvinism, blinded by St. Paul's rhetoric to a church in Rome whose greatest theological questions probably had a lot to do with the cult of fate, has made of God's will a sort of inflexible force.
More humane Christians have given the freedom of creation a little more space.
But now and again some loon invokes the will of God to perpetrate some nightmare on the world...
