Four Ways To Approach the Issue of Suffering with Students

Four Ways To Approach the Issue of Suffering with Students

A student once asked me, “If God is good and powerful, then why evil?”  Armed with philosophical arguments, I presented the “free will defense” and proposed “skeptical theism.” But the student seemed unimpressed. Though helpful, I discovered that the philosophical approaches to the problem of pain (or evil) leave much to be desired. Why? Because […]

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