God
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How Seldom we are Thankful
Have you ever thanked God for beating your heart? All day every day, God is attending to your every heartbeat and your every breath. He circulates blood throughout your body continually in order that you may move around and enjoy His creation. He blinks your eyelids all day every day, enabling you to have vision… Continue reading
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Will There be a Day of Judgement?
The idea of hell strikes fear into the hearts of everyone who acknowledges the awesome power of God. It is only right to appreciate God’s power and freedom, and truly, if God is able to make a creature suffer in one moment, He can choose to prolong suffering for as long as He wills. While… Continue reading
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If God is Good, How do we Explain Suffering?
One of the main reasons why people develop an interest in philosophy and religion is because they want to understand the reason, or reasons, why we suffer. A major line of attack directed at people of faith is in relation to the problem of trying to reconcile the existence of a good God with the… Continue reading
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The Role of Medicine in Mental Health Care
My local hospital has been undergoing a big refurbishment. They have been building new wards for mental health patients. I find it sad that this is happening. The new building for outpatients is called Trinity, and I assume it’s because there is a Trinity Church and a Trinity Road in the locality. It got me… Continue reading
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Obedience to God vs Obedience to Scripture?
Friends, sometimes in life it’s difficult to understand what God is doing. He is so awesome in power and wisdom and creation is His playground. He does whatever He will and is under no constraints or obligations. God’s ways can seem strange and unfathomable. I know my post yesterday ruffled a few feathers, so I… Continue reading
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Why Don’t I Commit to Either Christianity or Islam?
A few months ago, a friend and reader of this blog suggested I was ‘sitting on the fence’ spiritually. In other words, the fact that I don’t commit wholeheartedly to Christianity or Islam troubled him, or at least that’s what I inferred from certain comments he made. The position that I find myself in is… Continue reading
About TOPAZ
Steven Colborne (Topaz) is an author, musician and counsellor from the United Kingdom. On this blog he writes about philosophy, religion and spirituality and shares a variety of personal articles.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
