trevor j major

For skeptics like Bart Ehrman, the key to undermining the Christian faith is to undermine the Christian text. After all, faith “comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”[1] But what if we are not really hearing the word of Christ? What if we are really hearing the word of power-hungry men who conspired to give us their particular spin on the person and nature of Jesus Christ?

Peter famously confessed that Jesus was “the Christ, the Son of the living God.”[2] Christians make that same confession today. In the greater context of the New Testament, we come to understand that Christ’s sonship is tied inextricably to His deity.[3] God the Father sent His Son into the world so that we could believe what Peter and the rest of the apostles believed.[4] But what, exactly, did Peter believe?

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It is an old conundrum. If God knows my future, do I still have the freedom to choose? Let us say, for the sake of argument, that God knows that I will eat porridge tomorrow for breakfast. Is it possible for me to do otherwise? Could I make myself a bowl of grits instead? If the answer is “no,” then it seems I lack the freedom to choose: God’s foreknowledge trumps my free will. If the answer is “yes,” then God does not know everything after all: He is something less than the God of theism.

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• Introduction

Can God make a stone so large that he cannot lift? That might sound like a silly question, but it’s been around for a very long time. Amazingly, people still ask this question to make Christians squirm. Why? Well, think about the most obvious answers. If you say, “No,” then it seems there is something beyond God’s power: He can’t make a stone that big. If you say “Yes,” then He can make a big stone, but now there’s something else He can’t do: He can’t lift the thing!
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