Showing posts with label theodicy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theodicy. Show all posts
Monday, December 04, 2023

The problem of good

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Christians are often asked to defend God, from attacks using the problem of evil: If God is good, and all-powerful, why are there things suc...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Sunspots 706

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Christianity: Comedian Stephe...
Friday, September 05, 2014

Why is there evil in the world?

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Why is there evil in the world ? The classic Christian answer is this: When God created people, He gave them the power to choose. I...
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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Among Others by Jo Walton

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You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. I...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Job, Harry Potter and misery

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If there is a God, and He is even close to all-powerful, why is there suffering? (If there is a god who isn't even close to being all-po...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Why do sickness and death bother us so much?

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Why do sickness and death bother us so much? Every one reading this, and the vast number who won't, will die, barring some miraculous ev...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

What about the earthquake? What happened? Did God cause it?

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I have just now read three fine posts on the recent earthquake in Japan. (Thank you, Google Reader.) One is by a geologist , writing at The ...
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Friday, September 03, 2010

A Healing Homiletic by Kathy Black

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One of my daughters lent me A Healing Homiletic: Preaching and Disability by Kathy Black (Nashville: Abingdon, 1996). The central thesis of...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Sunspots 221

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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else: Science: Did you ever wonder about the adaptive significance of ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Eifelheim, by Michael Flynn

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Eifelheim , (New York, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2006) by Michael Flynn, was a nominee for the Hugo Award in 2007. I try to keep u...
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Monday, January 21, 2008

Where is God when things hurt us badly? pt. 4

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This is the fourth in a series of posts. The most recent is here . I realized, this morning during church (The pastor was speaking about Job...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Where is God when things hurt us badly, pt. 3

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In previous posts, here and here , I considered the problem posed by the post title. One comment on the first post was as follows: David B....
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Monday, January 07, 2008

Where is God when things hurt us badly? pt. 2

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In a recent post, " Where is God when things hurt us badly? " I quoted from two important works of science fiction, which have tha...
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Saturday, January 13, 2007

Theodicy, or the problem of evil/pain

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Henry has begun posting on Theodicy. His first post on the subject refers favorably to a long article, " Christian Theodicy in Light o...