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If You’re Honest, You’re Depressed (or You’re a Christian)

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We know that countless people are depressed, and millions are addicted to alcohol or drugs, and millions take antidepressants. And I’m not surprised! Why? Because honest people—and by that I mean the people not living in denial, the people honest about the human condition—should be depressed! Very depressed. Consider a truth agreed upon by every …

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Ehrman’s Problem 14: He Misunderstood God’s Promises

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Beginning on his first page of his chapter on “The Mystery of the Greater Good,” Ehrman relates his disappointment with God (125-126): If (IF!) there is a God, he is not the kind of being that I believed in as an evangelical: a personal deity who has ultimate power over this world and intervenes in …

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