by Karlo Broussard | Oct 7, 2021 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
It often happens there exist obstacles that block people from even beginning to take seriously the God question. Several of these obstacles have to do with a disposition to be hostile to or skeptical of religion in general. We’ve already looked at a few in previous...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 15, 2021 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Classical theists like St. Thomas Aquinas say God loves himself above all things. In other words, the primary target object of God’s love is himself. He loves himself above all things because his act of love can be fulfilled only in loving himself. This is not to say...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 16, 2021 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
When life is tough, we all have our coping mechanisms. Some are be based in reality, like friendships, and some are not, like drowning our sorrows in alcohol. For some atheists, religion, and in particular belief in God, is one of those coping mechanisms that isn’t...
by Karlo Broussard | May 18, 2020 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
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...
by Karlo Broussard | Dec 31, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Recently, we looked at an objection that argues God can’t be immutable and at the same time be the universal cause of temporal effects because that would entail God having to change in his acts—acting to cause one thing at one moment in time, ceasing that act at...