These are the words of David in response to God’s great promise of lovingkindness and an enduring house (2 Samuel 7.15-18).   What precipitated this gracious promise was David’s expressed desire to build God a house (2 Samuel 7.1-2).   In simple terms, David states that he is going to build a house for God, and God responds, “No, I will build a house for you.”  And this house, this Davidic dynasty, will endure forever.   “Death does not annul it; Sin cannot destroy it; time will not exhaust it” (2 Samuel 7.12-16).   …

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Throughout the history of Christianity, many great apologists and philosophers have attempted to develop logical arguments to rationally demonstrate that God exists. One of the most notable of these attempts is that of St. Thomas Aquinas, who laid out several persuasive arguments for God’s existence in his multi-volume work Summa Theologica. No argument can really prove God’s existence, but cumulatively they can be very compelling and persuasive. One of the less well known of them but one I …