Category Archives: Ethics & Metaethics

Selflessness

You are definitely an other, otherwise you would be able to predict what I will say next, and vice versa. Even if our minds were hooked together, we would be able to recognize “self” thoughts from “other” thoughts (because, for … Continue reading →

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Sin

Sin/evil is co-creating (exercising free will) apart from God (love). We are able to do this because we are made in the image of God. What we are supposed to do with free will is love (defined by God) freely. … Continue reading →

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Madness as Spiritual Suffering

During my daily Bible study a few months back, I ran across a very interesting verse which hit home: Deuteronomy 28:28: “The Lord will smite you with madness and with blindness and bewilderment of heart.” No doubt there are too … Continue reading →

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Fear — from a biblical perspective.

There are three relevant listings on page 73 in The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible’s Universal Subject Guide to the Bible (1990): Fear, Fear, godly, and Fearlessness. I inserted some Zondervan NASB notes. Fear – anxiety caused by … Continue reading →

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