- 118 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
This book of essays asks the enduring, age-old question, "If God is loving and good, why is there so much evil?" It answers boldly, "Because God creates, sustains, and 'allows' evil in the world." This fact is the greatest and most impenetrable mystery of the Christian faith. Twelve categories of evil are thereafter described and analyzed. The case is made that God is actively involved in the manifestations of evil, mysteriously and paradoxically suffers with her beloved children, but is "in control" of it all. Whatever harms, causes suffering, or destroys persons, animals, or the precious earth will be eliminated forever, but only in God's good time. Until then, believers must overcome evil with good, maintaining faith in the God whose thoughts and ways are not ours.
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Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Camus and Eternal Sisyphus
- Einsteinās Question
- The Best Possible World?
- The Book Demands Reasons
- The Vital Intersection
- God, Evil, And Christian Ambivalence
- The Problems in Simple Terms
- A Most Disturbing Question
- The Propositions
- Naming The ā...
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Camus and Eternal Sisyphus
- Einsteinās Question
- The Best Possible World?
- The Book Demands Reasons
- The Vital Intersection
- God, Evil, And Christian Ambivalence
- The Problems in Simple Terms
- A Most Disturbing Question
- The Propositions
- Naming The āEnemiesā
- The Twelve Problems Of Evil
- What About The Devil?
- The God Above The God Too Small
- Genesis: It Was āGoodā
- Genesis: Evil Before The Creation
- Genesis: The Garden
- Genesis: The Proleptic Tree
- Genesis: The Smallest Things
- Noah And The Lost World
- Theological Interlude
- Jesus And The Problems Of Evil
- Jesus And Impending Evil
- Jesus And The Great Mystery
- Stephen, Paul, And Impending Evil
- The Hate Approved By God
- Temptation For Perfection
- Can The Church Create Evil?
- Animal Pain
- Evil And The Sweet Illogic Of C. S. Lewis
- Human Incompletion
- Does God Take Human Life?
- Our God Who Suffers
- We Are āChildrenā
- Bibliography