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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3rDuvxGkBY&ab_channel=KristenWalkerSmith When I was 7 years old my dad died. He was a wonderful person. He was kind, he had a strong testimony, and he loved to serve in our community. But best of all, he loved to spend time with me, my 4 older sisters, and my mom. At his funeral, I remember thinking: why did God let this happen? Our family goes to church. My parents pay their tithing. We obey the law! If someone had to die, shouldn’t it have been a horrible criminal instead of my righteous dad?  Have you ever had those kinds of thoughts? Have you ever wondered why bad things happen to good people? If so, I want you to imagine that you’re back in Old Testament times and you are about to…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2YZ0WweRQM&ab_channel=AChristianGuy A charge that I have encountered in my comments is that nobody believed in the doctrine of the Trinity prior to the Council of Nicea. There is a half-truth to this in that, in the early days of the Church, the language of Trinitarian doctrine – namely, 1 God in 3 Persons, etc. – was not fully developed yet. The linguistic understanding of the Trinity that Christians hold today comes largely from the Cappadocian Fathers – Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus – who lived around the latter half of the fourth century, between the times of the Council of Nicaea and the Council of Constantinople. These three men lived during a time when Arianism (the belief that Jesus was not truly God) was very…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pZ3ohFU3bc&ab_channel=AChristianPerspectivewithMatthewTingblad Related articles Why does God kill innocent people in the Old Testament? How could a loving God send bears to maul children? Why is the God of the Old Testament different from the God of the New Testament? Transcript of the above video Over the years, I've read a few of the major books on atheism and one of the things that they often spend time talking about is these horrors that they see happening in the Old Testament by a God whom Christians claim to be benevolent and loving. There's these judgments and conquests, brutal slaughters and killings happening in the Old Testament, condoned by God, that include women and children! There's the Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, the firstborn of the families of Egypt, Joshua in the Canaan…