Christian Response to Suffering

If God is all-powerful and all-loving, how can evil be present in the world? This age-old question has challenged Christians for centuries.

In this class, we will delve into:

• The Core Challenge: the tension between an all-loving, all-powerful God and the existence of evil.
• Other Worldviews: how other world religions deal with the challenge.
• Finding Answers in Scripture: Biblical teachings that offer comfort and understanding.
• Strengthening Faith: tools to navigate personal questions and confidently respond to critics of the Christian faith.

Living as Christians in Religiously Diverse Singapore

Most Christians today live among ethnic and religious others across the globe. In fact, many regard Singapore as one of the most religiously diverse countries in the world.

The challenge of the Christian church in Singapore is that Christians must not only live with followers of other religions without compromising our faith, but we must also work with religious others to build a cohesive society. How can Christians live with authenticity and
maintain social harmony for the common good?

In our class, we will discuss several issues:

1. What is religious pluralism?
2. Do all religions lead to the same God?
3. How are Christians to witness for Christ in a religiously diverse environment?

How has the church come to believe what belongs in the Bible and what does not belong? The church has historically believed that a specific set of writings – called the Canon of Scripture – composes of the Old and New Testaments. This is the list of divinely inspired and authritative writings which are regarded as the Word of God was developed in the early church.

The canon of the Protestant Church differes from that of the Roman Catholic Church.

In this class, we will discuss the canonization process and the main differences between the Protestants and Roman Catholic scriptures.

Give that Christianity is built on the teachings of the Bible, we must explore the truthfulness or the historical reliability of the New Testament.