Friday, December 18, 2020

The Problem of Evil and Suffering

 If God is all powerful but does nothing to fix the senseless pain of the world then he is not good. And if he cares about the plight of creation but does nothing then he is impotent. 

I just can't believe that atheists still trot out this argument. It is almost on the level of asking "if God is all powerful can He make a rock so big He can't lift it?" The problem of evil and suffering is only incrementally more sound.
It sounds logical but it's not. God is all powerful and all good, but that's not all God is. He is also righteous, just, wise, and omnicient among other qualities, and for humans to deny God's existence and then denigrate His choices without having His mind is illogical. It is an incomplete view of the nature of God and ignores thousands of years of thought on this issue. And because it is incomplete it is a caricature, a straw man.
The truth is that God does care and has set in place the means by which all the world's evil and suffering will be corrected. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." 

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