In this episode of Incarnate Investigation, Jimmy Wallace (J. Warner’s son) taps into his experience as a police officer to discuss our inclination to view the world through our temporal, finite experience. Why do we struggle in the moment as Christians when we know we’ve been promised eternity? Incarnate Investigation …
Read More »How an Eternity Full of Tomorrows Can Help Us Get Through Today
I remember what it was like as a police recruit in training. In many ways, it doesn’t feel like it was that long ago. Now as a field training officer, I get to watch my trainees struggle through the same training program, and it reminds me of how long and …
Read More »6 Things You Can Tell Your Kids When Trying to Explain Pain and Suffering in Our World
Devastating storms, killer earthquakes, record-setting fires and horrific acts of evil dominate recent news headlines. Why would an all-loving, all-powerful God allow these things to happen? Is God just unable to stop this kind of evil? If so, why call Him all-powerful? Is God unwilling to stop this kind of …
Read More »Does the Existence of Pain and Suffering Disprove the Existence of God? (Podcast)
In this blast from the past, J. Warner Wallace examines one aspect of the classic “Problem of Evil”. Why would an all-loving and all-powerful God allow anyone to suffer? Doesn’t He have the power to stop it? Doesn’t He care enough about us to stop it? Does pain and suffering …
Read More »Would God Actually Use Evil to Draw Us to Himself?
In God’s Crime Scene, I make a robust cumulative case for the existence of God from eight pieces of evidence in the universe. Evidence that points toward a particular conclusion (or suspect) is described as inculpating evidence, and evidence that points away from the same conclusion (or suspect) is called …
Read More »Would God Really Allow Us to Suffer Evil In Order to Develop Our Character?
The “problem of evil” is often cited by skeptics to defend their disbelief: Why would an all-powerful, all-loving God allow His children to experience pain and suffering? In my latest book, God’s Crime Scene, I examine the problem of evil as one of eight pieces of evidence in the universe. …
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