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Jan 4, 2022 · Forgiveness is the Christian answer to the problem of evil. Forgiveness is different from condemnation—it releases the condemned from punishment. Forgiveness is also different from excusing evil—it acknowledges that there is wrong to be made right.
- Omnibenevolent
The problem of evil is a complex one. However, we do know...
- Love
Answer. Let’s look at how the Bible describes love, and then...
- Book of Job
The Book of Job teaches us to trust God under all...
- What is The Difference Between Natural Evil and Moral Evil
Our site has several articles that address theodicy and the...
- Omnibenevolent
- The Sadotheistic response: Premise 3: Suffering and Evil Exist. Conclusion: God enjoys to bring about suffering and pain for no reason at all.
- Open Theistic Response: Premise 3: Suffering and evil exist. Conclusion: God has self-limited his abilities so that he can truly relate to mankind.
- The Pantheistic Response: Premise 3: Suffering and evil exist. Conclusion: Suffering and Evil are illusions we create with our own mind.
- The Atheistic Response. Premise 3: Suffering and evil exist. Conclusion: An all-good, all-powerful God could not exist since there is so much suffering and evil in the world.
- Forms of The Problem
- The Biblical Solution
- The Alternative
The problem of evil exists in both ‘high’ and ‘low’ forms.In the ‘high’ form it is a philosophical question, which can be worded as asyllogism: Premise A: An all-powerful, all-knowing, morally perfectGod would not allow evil/suffering in the world Premise B: There is evil/suffering in the world Conclusion: There is not an all-powerful, all-knowing,...
Total Depravity
The Bible has much to say about the problem of evil – even afull-length book wouldn’t do it justice. We can, however, sketch out the mainoutline of the answer. The foundation principle, from which the Bible answers this question, is the doctrine of the depravity of man. Mankind, as Paul argues extensively in Romans 1-3, is entirely depraved and corrupt. There is nothing good in man. He cannot perform ‘good works,’ and every action that he performs is stained with sin. This is not to say that...
Morally Sufficient Reasons
Taken at first glance, the philosophical argument against theexistence of God, which uses the problem of evil, seems unsolveable: Premise A: An all-powerful, all-knowing, morally perfectGod would not allow evil/suffering in the world Premise B: There is evil/suffering in the world Conclusion: There is not an all-powerful, all-knowing,morally perfect God It does, however, have one fatal flaw: premise A is uncertain.Let’s break down premise A and see if we can understand what is wrong with it:...
God’s Good Purposes
Yes, the Bible claims, God has a morally sufficient reasonfor allowing evil and suffering. It does not exactly make sense to our human minds,but (if true), it is certain ‘morally sufficient.’ God allows evil andsuffering because he has good purposes in mind – specifically, the revelationof himself. The story of Joseph in the Bible is an excellent example ofthis. In Genesis 37-50, Joseph is sold by his jealous brothers into slavery inEgypt. The brothers, glad to be rid of their younger nuisanc...
The Bible presents the only tenable solution to the problemof evil. There is, however, an alternative – an alternative which many peoplehave chosen, despite its illogic. The alternative is to accept the conclusionthat the Christian conception of God does not exist: God is either limited inhis power, wisdom, or moral goodness. This solution is so hi...
Why does God allow evil, particularly atrocities? No book more effectively punctures philosophical and theological abstractions with the sharp end of real life.
In C. S. Lewis’s life, the problem of evil was perhaps the greatest of all obstacles to his coming to faith. He remembered the quote from the Roman Epicurean poet Lucretius: “Had God designed the world, it would not be/A world so frail and faulty as we see.” When Lewis met Christians, he would pose this problem to them.
God's solution to the problem of evil is his Son Jesus Christ. The Father's love sent his Son to die for us to defeat the power of evil in human nature: that's the heart of the Christian story.
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What Is the Problem of Evil? The so-called “problem of evil” is an argument against the existence of God that reasons along these lines: A perfectly powerful being can prevent any evil.
