Summer Theodicy Meme
15 June 2008 - 13 סיון 5768 by Huw
Here are the questions. Post links to your blog posts - or post your responses - in the comment section. My response is in another post. Thanks to Donald and Fr E for sharing their responses as well!
1. if the nature of god is omnipotent, benevolent, and anthropomorphic (that god is a person, who sees suffering as wrong, and can change all of it), why does god not act to relieve all suffering, or at least the greatest amount of suffering for the greatest amount of people the greatest amount of time?
2. if you were god, and you were omnipotent and benevolent, how would you respond to suffering?
3. if this is not the nature of god, what is the nature of god, that allows suffering in the world?
4. if these are the wrong questions to ask, what are the right ones?
I have posted a multi-part response to this meme at God and Evil. The first section takes an intellectual approach to mystery of evil while the second section is an emotional approach.
Thanks for the link. You need to allow discussion on your site. The blog’s name is “Sarx”