Ep. 20: Good and Evil, Righteousness and Wickedness
Michael explains the important distinction between good/evil as affectional categories and righteousness/wickedness as moral categories.
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God’s Names in Job: Does God Suffer With Us?
The book of Job has regularly posed a problem for Christians in nearly every generation because it presents, quite starkly, the suffering of a “blameless” man for no reason ever explained to him, by a God who seems far more interested in winning a bet with Satan and browbeating Job with odes to His own […]
Continue reading →The Problem of Evil has an “Evil” Problem
Whether it’s framed by heated personal anecdotes or cool-headed syllogisms, the problem of evil has always posed the thorniest challenge to belief in the Christian God. It runs something like this: The Bible says God is omnipotent, omniscient, and good. Yet there is evil in the world. So the Bible must be wrong about God: […]
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