Question: If God knows if someone is going to hell, why does He give them life in the first place? Does He want them to experience something good so that when they get to hell they’ll “regret” their decision?
Category Archives: Q&A
Q&A: Can I have lab-grown meat during the fast?
Q: Is lab-grown meat acceptable during the fast? Is the “Beyond Burger” acceptable during the fast?
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I received a question here, but my answer was getting so long that I felt it warranted it’s own post!
Q&A: Why am I not allowed to believe in [science]?
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Q&A: I know Jesus loves me, but I’m suffering.
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Q: I’m having some troubles dealing with suffering, and I don’t want just the “Jesus loves me” answer. Any thoughts or insights?
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Q&A: What do I do when I don’t feel like striving anymore?
Q&A: What do I do when I don’t feel like striving anymore? I know I’m supposed to, but it’s brutal.
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Love became man.
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A very Merry Christmas to all of us celebrating the feast of our Lord’s Incarnation today!
How amazing is it that we have a God who wants us, loves us, and is willing to come out of His majesty to literally be one of us? He Who is outside of time accepted to be in it, He without a body took on Flesh! What was the point of that? Really, why did Love become man?
When I try, things get harder. Why bother?
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Q: Every time I find some resolve to begin to work on my spiritual life, I find that things get difficult. Instead of feeling like God “has my back” so to speak, I feel like my problems increase. I don’t just mean spiritual temptations (although that’s happening as well), I mean both spiritual temptations and things in the world. School goes bad, friendships get rocked, I don’t know, problems increase, and I can’t help but wonder if this is worth it. I guess the question is, what do I do when I feel like this?
On the importance of balanced critical thinking
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Q: I feel like I’m not encouraged to use my mind in our culture at Church. I get the sense that if I question things, I’m seen as being heretical or something, and that I am doing something wrong. If it’s so wrong to think critically, then why did God even give us a mind?
– Frustrated
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Q&A: If He’s going to take us at our best time, why is it still so hard?
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“For I have no pleasure in the death of any one, says the Lord GOD; so turn, and live”
Q: “Since God is going to always take us at our best time, why is it so hard to enter the kingdom?”
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