Theology, Philosophy & Culture
A position worth taking seriously, and a real response — drawn from teaching and writing that hasn't found its way into a book yet.
The Problem of Good
Flip the problem of evil on its head: what if there's too much good in the world for pure naturalism to explain? Here's where that argument actually leads.
“As soon as you say there's too much evil, you've now acknowledged the existence of good — and then what is good, the only source of goodness is God — you've opened the door for C.S. Lewis's moral argument to come in: evil implies good, good implies a moral absolute, a moral absolute implies a creator of that moral absolute, therefore God. Not necessarily the full Christian God this route — maybe Plato's the One, the Good, the True, the Beautiful — but some kind of divine being.”
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Imagine someone argued that heaven simply redeems our memory — meaning we won't remember our suffering, which is partly how they'd solve the problem of grieving over someone who ended up separated from God forever. Here's a response worth sitting with.
“What about the marks on Jesus's own hands? How do those get there if memory is simply erased? Isn't that itself the mark of our sin, carried forward? So I think he's anthropomorphizing memory in a certain way — not that God will hold your sin against you literally, more that he won't hold it as a grudge.”
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