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Jun 8, 2020 · When the Bible says, for example, that God will “cause [us] to walk in [his] statutes” (Ezekiel 36:27), and that he is “working in us that which is pleasing in his sight” (Hebrews 13:21), and that he “works in [us], both to will and to work for his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13), and that the work he began in us he “will bring . . . to completion at the day of Jesus Christ ...
Oct 23, 2024 · Theistic responses. Religious believers have had recourse to two main strategies. One approach is to offer a theodicy, an account of why God chooses to permit evil in the world (and why he is morally justified in so choosing)—e.g., that it is a necessary consequence of sin or that, as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz claimed, this is the “ best of all possible worlds.”
1 day ago · The problem of evil is something that has challenged intellectuals even before Christianity emerged. One of the earliest known formulations comes from the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 B.C.E.), who posed a thought-provoking set of questions about the nature of divine power and goodness.
1 day ago · Christianity - Satan, Origin, Evil: In the Bible, especially the New Testament, Satan (the Devil) comes to appear as the representative of evil. Enlightenment thinkers endeavoured to push the figure of the Devil out of Christian consciousness as being a product of the fantasy of the Middle Ages. It is precisely in this figure, however, that some aspects of the ways God deals with evil are ...
Jan 27, 2022 · So, one of the things the Reformed theologians have been adamant about is God is not the author of evil. Of course, that then runs into a problem because God is sovereign. If He’s not the author of evil, how can there be evil in a universe where God is sovereign and good? And so there is a mystery there.
The problem of evil is generally formulated in two forms: the logical problem of evil and the evidential problem of evil. The logical form of the argument tries to show a logical impossibility in the coexistence of a god and evil, [ 2 ] [ 9 ] while the evidential form tries to show that given the evil in the world, it is improbable that there is an omnipotent, omniscient, and a wholly good god ...
The problem of evil and suffering. The problem of evil is a primary reason that people abandon their faith or reject belief in God. 4 Reconciling suffering with a benevolent God leads many to search for meaning through philosophy, theology, or a godless existence. As moral philosopher Susan Neiman writes,
