At the beginning of Paradise Lost, John Milton explains that he is writing “to justify God’s ways to man” — the implication is that God’s ways are not obviously justifiable. A number of religious thinkers have been bothered by the evident evil of the world and have found it difficult to explain why God could allow such evil if God is indeed benevolent. For example, many Jewish theologians have questioned the benevolence of God in the face of the Holocaust. So DrC’s question is very much to the point.
OmqR-IV.0 about 11 years ago
Zing!
DavidGBA about 11 years ago
Drew the hungry too fat looking!
lonecat about 11 years ago
At the beginning of Paradise Lost, John Milton explains that he is writing “to justify God’s ways to man” — the implication is that God’s ways are not obviously justifiable. A number of religious thinkers have been bothered by the evident evil of the world and have found it difficult to explain why God could allow such evil if God is indeed benevolent. For example, many Jewish theologians have questioned the benevolence of God in the face of the Holocaust. So DrC’s question is very much to the point.