John Calvin is famous for teaching that God doesn’t just permit moral evil, but he positively directs sinners to sin. Of “wicked” and “obstinate” men, Calvin claimed that [God] bends them to execute his judgments, just as if they carried their orders engraven on their...
Audio Download The Wake Up team at Catholic Community Radio interviewed me about the chapter eight in my book Prepare the Way: Overcoming Obstacles to God, the Gospel, and the Church, in which I discuss the evidential version of the intellectual problem of...
Audio Download The Wake Up team at Catholic Community Radio in Baton Rouge, LA interview me about the intellectual problem of evil. We focus on chapter seven of my new book Prepare the Way: Overcoming Obstacles to God, the Gospel, and the...
Questions surrounding the Doctrine of Hell are often an obstacle to people who are learning about the Catholic faith. In this Ready Reasons video I discuss why the Doctrine of Hell and an all-good God don’t contradict each other, but rather go hand in hand. Audio...
For many people, the Catholic doctrine of hell serves as an obstacle to belief in God. They think an all-good God wouldn’t allow someone he loves to experience everlasting torment. And they think the permanent nature of hell’s punishment is incompatible with a just...