God's Problem by Bart Ehrman heads into a different direction on chapter seven -- God Has the Last Word: Jewish-Christian Apocalypticism. In this chapter, Bart examines the thoughts of apocalypse theory -- that is 'God makes everything right in the end' that brings about an end to evil. I have a few agreements with Bart:
1. Most people do not have a good response to natural evil -- much of evil can be explained with freewill and at least on the surface it looks like that natural evil cannot be explained this way.
2. In Revelation, Evil is seen as caused by satanic forces -- although Bart dismisses the thought of the devil and demons as superstitious nonsense.
3. Most people interpret Revelation badly and all people so far have got predictions wrong. I think this will continue because I don't think people properly interpret Revelation at all.
That's it. Short isn't it? Wait till tomorrow -- it gets longer.
Next: Disagreements with Chapter Seven.
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