Podcast: Doesn’t Jesus Violate the Free Will of Demons When He Casts Them Out?

4 Reasons to Wake Up to the Warfare Worldview April 22, 2015

Image by postbear via Flickr A view of the world that grounds the problem of evil in spiritual warfare is not one that many modern people find easy to accept. To many contemporaries, the notion is preposterous that real, semi-autonomous, self-determining, and invisible spirits exist that can and do influence our lives. The whole thing sounds…

Lighten Up: The Down Side of Free Will January 31, 2014

Confronting Divine Determinism September 3, 2014

Part of the fallen human condition inclines us to shirk our moral responsibility and accept that everything is predetermined, whether by God, the gods, fate, or blind chance. Various forms of determinism have been prevalent in most primitive religions, in much ancient philosophy, in most forms of Islam and even, most surprisingly, in much traditional…

What does the Bible mean when it says God “sent an evil spirit” on certain people? December 18, 2018

Question: In Judges 9:23, I Samuel 16:15ff and 18:10 it is said that God sends evil spirits on people. Doesn’t this support the idea that everything Satan and demons do is under God’s sovereign control? Answer: I’ll make six points in response to this question. 1) If everything Satan and demons do is under “God’s…

URI Inauguration of David M. Dooley -Greg’s Speech: 4/8/10 April 25, 2010

Watch Greg’s Speech at the Inauguration of David M. Dooley at the University of Rhode Island.

4 Reasons to Believe in a Spiritual Realm January 25, 2016

For the last century, a large number of theologians and church leaders have claimed that the biblical view of spiritual warfare—where there is an actual realm where angels and demons exist—is no longer believable. The influential German scholar, Rudolf Bultmann famously wrote, “It is impossible to use electric light and the wireless and to avail…