Challenge of a Post Christian Culture 09 The Problem of Evil
The #1 club in the atheist tool bag is the problem of evil. “You say there is a god, but I see all sorts of evil everywhere. How can a good god permit all of these terrible things to happen? This was the topic of class yesterday, and we want to discuss this in more detail next Sunday (the 23rd). If you have a question, let me encourage you to post a comment here.
I argued yesterday that it is not evil for evil to exist. In fact, I believe that God would not be good if he did not create a context where people could reject him. We only love when we freely give ourselves to someone, and for love to be free there must be the real possiblity that we might hate or despise another person.
Answering questions about evil requires us to ask lots of probing questions—about the nature of good, about what it means for God to be all-powerful, about what evil really is at its core.
