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Chapter 16 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - “Most certainly God did not want those who committed these fearful crimes against humanity to act as they did”
        
        Criticism: this goes against God’s omnipotence as suggests it is out of his control also is unnecessary
- - - - Returning to the central problem of Christian theodicy : “How can we reconcile a serious facing of evil as evil l with a full acknowledgement of the absolute sovereignity and hence the ultimate omni-responsibility of God?”
        
        Moral evil is an inevitable result of epistemic distance from God
        
        Pain and suffering is a necessary feature of a world that is meant for the process of soul-making
        
        All suffering somehow has a positive significance
      - Two conceptions of evil:
        
        OT: evil is “God’s instrument and servant”
        
        NT: evil is primarily God’s enemy
        
        both conceptions of evil runintertwined throughout the Bible in a complex pattern
        
        If we understand this pattern we may find the solution to our problem
        
        “Evil is related in a dual way to the divine will”
        
        “On the one hand,, Jesus’ death was an experience of agonising pain and suffering which was emphatically not as such willed by God, but which was worked by human wickedness and moral failure”