Let’s face it, suffering is a major problem for those of us who believe in a good and powerful God. How do you answer skeptics who challenge your belief in God because of the gratuitous suffering endemic in human history? In this episode we’ll explore some answers to this question offered by several worldviews before looking at how the Christian metanarrative offers hope.
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This is part 10 of the Why Christianity class.
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Suffering
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Natural Evil—suffering that is caused by impersonal agents (e.g., hurricanes, famine, fires, illness, etc).
Moral Evil—suffering that is caused by personal agents (e.g., murder, rape, torture, theft, slander, etc).
The BIG Questions
1) Why me?
2) Where’s God?
3) What does it mean?
How do the 3 major categories of metanarrative answer these questions?
Tri-Lemma
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• Is evil, evil?
• Is God all good?
• Is God all powerful?
• Evil exists
• God is omnibenevolent
• God is omnipotent
Critics: “Which of these do YOU deny?”
Response: “How are they all true?”
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Good class.