by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
“You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13). In its May 12, 2014 post, Mail Online reported that an 85 year old Italian woman paid €10,000 to a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland to help her to commit suicide because she was ‘unhappy about losing her looks’....
by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
“All day long he craves and craves, but the righteous gives and does not hold back” (Proverbs 21:26). This passage from Israel’s wisdom literature presents a stark contrast between the wicked and the righteous man. The former’s desire for wealth and...
by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
“You shall not murder.” (Exodus 20:13) In a recent article in The New York Times it was reported that in the past decade there has been a sharp increase in the number of suicides, especially among middle-aged Americans. According to the Morbidity and...
by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
The traditional doctrine of hell has recently come under fire even from evangelical theologians. In the past twenty years or so, an increasing number of evangelical theologians have rejected the traditional understanding of hell and eternal punishment and have...
by ETHOS Institute | Mar 3, 2015 | More Articles by Dr Roland Chia
Christians from all the traditions of the Church – Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant – believe that the Bible is the Word of God. That is why in most traditional Churches, the declaration, ‘This is the Word of the Lord’, is made after the lector reads the...
