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Feb 17, 2011 · Why, God’s people have wondered, would a sovereign and loving God not immediately rid the universe of evil? People and prophets alike ask, “How long, O LORD?” (as in Psalm 6:3; 13:1). Remarkably, not just God’s saints on Earth, but martyrs in Heaven—morally perfect but still finite—cry out, “How long, Sovereign Lord?” (Revelation 6:10).
Feb 11, 2024 · If God is omniscient, he would know about all of the evil and suffering in the world and would know how to eliminate or prevent it. If God is perfectly good, he would want to prevent all of the evil and suffering in the world. If God knows about all of the evil and suffering in the world, knows how to eliminate or prevent it, is powerful enough ...
Oct 31, 2020 · If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave man on the planet), it would mean that the essence of “humanness” would be destroyed. Man would become a robot. If God eliminated evil by programming man to perform only good acts, man would lose the ability to make choices and be reduced to robot status.
Jan 4, 2022 · Second, “we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28). Whatever God has planned for Satan, that plan will be the best one possible. God’s perfect wrath and justice will be satisfied, and His perfect righteousness will be glorified.
- Habakkuk 1:2–4, “How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, ‘Violence!’ but you do not save? Why do you make me look at injustice?
- Ecclesiastes 4:1–3, “Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed—and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors—and they have no comforter.
- Psalm 10:1, “Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?”
- Psalm 22:1–2, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest.”
God could have created a world without the possibility of evil, but he willed to create the world in a "state of journeying" to its consummation (the time when evil will no longer exist). [75] God could have created beings without the possibility of committing sin, but he willed to create free beings, e.g., beings that have free-will and must ...
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Unlike Plantinga’s response to the logical problem of evil, which is merely a “defense” (that is, a negative attempt to undermine a certain atheological argument without offering a positive account of why God allows evil and suffering), Hick’s response is a “theodicy” (that is, a more comprehensive attempt to account for why God is justified in allowing evil and suffering).
