I’ve been thinking about God’s free will and omniscience over the last few weeks. This was prompted, as a good many discussions and thoughts are, by one of my commenters, boomSLANG, who also prompted an earlier post about omniscience and omnipotence.

Many of the disagreements that have arisen in the course of this Cross Examination series have come up either due to a lack of definition, or because of a difference in definition. For example, the difference between “absolute omnipotence” and “essential omnipotence” led some to make the statement that “God cannot be both omnipotent and omniscient,” a claim which I wrote about in a previous post.

The existence of a moral law is something that I’ve pondered for quite a while, in many different contexts. On the one hand, you have the religious, who say that there is a moral law. On the other, you have moral relativists (and others) who say that morality is not fixed (or that it evolves).

As promised, I began my book study in my “Cross Examination” series with the book, “Letter to a Christian Nation” by the famed atheist author, Sam Harris. It was a short read (less than a hundred pages), and it adequately (though unpersuasively) lays out the case against Christianity.

Science has a lot to contribute to our lives and our knowledge. It studies the way things are in our world–physical and natural–through observation and experimentation. Scientists have enhanced the world in which we live. But science has limitations. There are things that science cannot answer.