The 3rd Choice

Making sense out of the Trinity. We don't just have to blindly accept it by faith, we can explaining it using reason.

It is often accused by detractors that God doesn’t really answer prayer, but that Christians are guilty of confirmation bias. It’s the tendency to see what we want to see and expect to see, to say that certain circumstances are answers to prayer because I believe they are. When I expect to get an answer to prayer, I will find some event that fits my expectations, and then claim that it happened.

I claim this accusation is not only untrue but also impossible.

I'm talking about what prayer is really about. Its primary purpose is not to ask for things, but to have a love relationship.

If God really wants us to know Him, why doesn’t He appear to all of us and speak to all of us?

Among all the religions on earth, why do we think Christianity (and none other) is true? How do we know Christianity is true?

Wasn’t God being unfair to harden Pharaoh’s heart and then punish him for it?

Some people accuse that if Jesus didn't really stay dead it wasn't really a sacrifice—that if He knew He was going to rise again, there was nothing sacrificial about His death.

Is God egotistical when He demands our worship? What is worship, and why does God both demand it and/or deserve it?

Could Jesus have given in to temptation? If so, they he could have sinned. If not, then how was he really human?

A conversation with Charles Anzalone about journalism and media.