WHAT CAN YOU CHOOSE?
Can you imagine what your life would be like if you had no capacity to choose? There would be no joy, no purpose, no meaning, and no love. But what would it look like if everything anyone chose became a reality? What if your next-door neighbor chooses to put a large pile of trash in […]
SUFFERING & THE GREAT CONTROVERSY – 3
The Creation of Man It was in the context of this great controversy that the creation story unfolds. God had planned for the creation of the earth and all life upon it, including a new race of intelligent creatures that could reproduce. Instead of creating many people, God created one person, Adam, from which all […]
SUFFERING & THE GREAT CONTROVERSY – 1
To understand the context in which suffering exists, we must understand something far greater than our own experience in this fallen world. We must understand the great controversy between God and Satan. God God is the source of all things good. He is the source of existence, life, power, space, matter, love, truth, etc. And God […]
TEMPTATION–THE WHAT, WHY, AND HOW
We evaluate all information that is available to us. First, the information is evaluated by the conscience to determine if the information is truth or error, good or evil, right or wrong. Then the information is brought to the heart (a part of the mind) where it is evaluated to determine if the information is […]