Objection 3 – How Can A Loving God Send People To Hell?

Okay, so today is one of the trickiest topics to address – “How can a God who is supposed to be all-loving send people to Hell? Surely the punishment doesn’t fit the crime? No matter what someone has done, eternal punishment seems far too much.”

Well, as with the previous objections we’ve discussed, there needs to be two major things considered here – the intellectual problem and the emotional problem. The intellectual problem is fairly simple, and should give you confidence to hold fast to these foundational truths of Christianity. However, nearly everyone has an emotional issue with these problems, so we need to address that too.

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The contrast hit home as we came in to land at Manchester Airport and the captain address us over the tannoy “…the temperature in Manchester this morning is -5 degrees.” Minus 5, you’ve got to be kidding me! It was 32 degrees in Mumbai yesterday; that’s a 37 degree drop! But the extreme difference in temperature doesn’t come close the extreme difference in lifestyle between these two countries. In the UK, we feel hard done by if we merely have to demonstrate some patience in getting what we want. In Mumbai, kids come running at the promise of a boiled egg!
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Objection Two – How Can A Good God Allow Pain and Suffering?

This objection, also known as The Problem of Evil is probably the most common objection people hold towards belief in God today. It goes like this:

If God is supposed to be an all powerful, good God of love, how can he allow such great pain and suffering to happen to so many innocent people? What about the Haitian earthquake? What about the Japanese Tsunami? What about HIV and cancer? If God really was ‘good’, he would prevent these things from happening.

So, let’s firstly look at some of the problems with this way of thinking and then address how you might respond to someone who has this objection. (more…)

Objection One – There Can’t Be Just One True Religion

This is a huge objection in our society today, hence why we’re beginning here. Educational systems today tend to lead people to think that truth is relative - that truth is what you make it; what’s true for you isn’t necessarily true for me – and we are seeing a rise in the number of people who claim to hold on to this view. (more…)

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged on here, and plenty of people have recently been voicing an interest in a subject close to my heart, that I am very passionate about. That subject is Apologetics.  (more…)

Some of our team are over in Mumbai, India at the moment with our great friend Ps Biju Thampy and the Vision Rescue team! They’re out helping out on some of the largest slums in India, and have sent us some pictures of the work they’re doing, check out some of the photos below.
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