On to the last chapter of Bart Ehrman's book God's Problem. This chapter is a wrap up chapter entitled Suffering: The Conclusion. In this chapter, Bart is trying to get make his final arguments and wrap things up. I do have some agreements with him but they are very few because I believe that both his premises and conclusions for his argument are very flawed:
1. Suffering is everywhere, but once again does this disprove the God of the Bible existence? I don't think so, just prove suffering exists. The 'why' in relationship to God is still a question.
2. I too think the Greater Good defense for evil is a bunch of garbage.
3. One of the Biblical Views of suffering is that 'it is' so deal with it.
That's all -- told you it was short. Trust me the next post will be longer.
Next: Disagreements with Chapter Nine
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I'm not sure I agree with you on point #2. Suffering often brings people to Christ. Could we even have the number of saved people we do without evil being done to them in some manner? I don't think so, people tend to look to God when trouble rears and rely on self when all goes smoothly.
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ReplyDeleteThe Greater Good Defense for the problem of evil is about the beginning, that is somehow God wanted to have sin and evil in the world to bring about a greater good. I short saying that God needs sin and evil to do this. Nonsense I say.
Blessings.