Advice from Above

            For someone who didn’t grow up in church, the term Molinism sounds like a word Webster Dictionary just made up. However, once you spend some time in a church setting, this term or the idea surrounding it may eventually come up. So, what is Molinism and how does it relate to the bigger picture?             There are two main elements to Molinism; “God has middle knowledge of counterfactuals of creaturely freedom and agents are possessed of libertarian free will.” (Smith & Limanto) To break that down in even simpler terms, middle knowledge means between natural and free knowledge regarding God’s creative process. A counterfactual is simply a conditional statement and when referring to “creaturely or agent,” the author is referring to living things. Libertarian free will is not referring to political beliefs but is the “conjunction of a rejection of compatibilism along with the claim that humans (at least occasionally) possess free will.” (Stratton). Compatibilism is th

There is something about sitting next to someone on an airplane that makes me feel like I must talk to the people around me. On one particular flight, I had a conversation with a traveler who had been physically “soul searching” and traveling for years. This blew my mind. The experience of traveling and seeing the world must have been so cool, but to be looking for something for so long and not find it could have also been exhausting. The world likes to try and come up with answers to these questions, but they don’t compare to the infallible word of God. Everyone has a God-shaped hole in their heart that they try to fill with other things but only God himself can fill that void . We might not do this to the scale of traveling the world for years physically “soul searching” but how often do we throw ourselves into other things, hoping to find fulfillment or satisfaction from something other than God? No amount of “soul searching” will do the trick. Thankfully, God is pursuing us

          Robert Lee Frost claimed to be an atheist. [1] However, if a reader were to look closely at his work, there are many allusions to the Bible and Christianity throughout the timeline of his poetry. If someone is truly an atheist, they do not believe God exists. If someone is agnostic, they do not know if God exists. [2] For Robert Frost to truly not believe in God, he sure does mention him frequently and alludes to someone that supposedly, doesn’t exist. It leads a person to question why? Is this a way of expressing Frost’s questioning of the faith? While living from 1874-1963 was Frost simply trying to attract a certain audience for the time period? [3] Or is it merely background knowledge coming to light in his work? There is no way of knowing for sure, but let’s start by taking a deeper look, into the biblical allusions in Robert Frost’s poetry.             Perhaps the most obvious example of biblical allusions in Robert Frost’s work is in “Never Again Would Birds’ Son