My response to the recent news of Stephen Hawking’s position re God is identical to my response to news years ago that the late Antony Flew that noted British Philosopher had abandoned atheism — intellectual disappointment that a world renowned scholar has not gone far enough in his reflections about God.
Flew, for scientific reasons, surrendered atheism, not for theism (belief in a personal-Infinite God) but for deism (belief in an impersonal ‘God of science’,…

Jehovah’s Witnesses (hereafter JWs) reject the deity of Jesus Christ despite the fact that the New Testament is replete with clear affirmations of the fact that Jesus is called God. We turn to that testimony now.
As a colleague pointed out to me, the JWs’ treatment of Jn. 1.1c as saying ‘Jesus is a god’ begs the question ‘what kind of god is he?’
If he is being affirmed as a false god then why…

Though Jehovah’s Witnesses proudly assert that the only proper name for God is Jehovah there is evidence available for years now that the word Jehovah is not even a defensible name for God, based on the Bible.
Charles T. Russell’s successor, Judge Rutherford, had selected the current name of the group to distinguish those who accepted his leadership from the smaller group that remained faithful to Russell’s memory and leadership, after a split in their…

The New York Times Bestselling novel The Shack by Wm. Paul Young is an interesting story of a man’s encounter with God, manifested as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In the novel God, the Father is a Black woman, God the Son is a Jewish man and God the Holy Spirit is an Asian woman.
For the person who is unfamiliar with literary techniques this all sounds like blasphemy.  The writer seemingly anticipates this indictment…

Historians, sociologists, cultural anthropologists and some soft-headed Christians, are to blame for the now popular but suspect or meaningless notion that Rastafarianism is the most indigenous religious expression that Jamaica has known.
This kind of argument is usually advanced with an implied (or expressed) criticism of Christianity as being an alien religion.
Let me indulge an aside.  Notice how Rastafarianism and African religious retentions are lauded in academia yet none of these religious expressions find…