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Letters from a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father’s Questions about Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Greg Boyd and his father, Ed, were on opposite sides of a great divide. Greg was a newfound Christian, while his father was a longtime agnostic. So Greg offered his father an invitation: Ed could write with any questions on Christianity, and his son would offer a response. Letters from a Skeptic contains this special correspondence. The letters tackle some of today’s toughest challenges facing...

at the heart of crucial issues. You’d probably have to be a professor of theology like myself to appreciate just how rare that gift is! Well, Dad, you asked me whether God was all-powerful, whether He was in control, and what good it is to believe in Him. Let me address these in order. Is my God all-powerful? I want to answer yes and no. Let me explain myself. It is my view (which I believe to be biblical) that God is all-powerful in the sense that God originally possessed all power. Before Creation,
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