Wednesday, April 29, 2015

1) Engaging the Problem of Evil: Preface

               The essay you are about to read was written as my final paper in my Honors Bible class.  At first, I intended it to be a mere summary of my previously posted essay, “A Response to the Problem of Evil”, with a few useful, albeit less impactful, new insights added to cover the space remaining after that summary.  But after honestly thinking it through and writing the essay as thoughtfully as I could, I ended up bringing out insights which I thought to be rather enlightening, and I desire greatly to publish those insights.  Furthermore, this essay has a much different tone in comparison to the former; the first half, which merely summarizes “A Response to the Problem of Evil”, is intellectual, but the second half is more pastoral.  I have always been taught, through my Honors Bible class, that there are two halves to the whole problem of evil: the logical problem and the emotional problem.  Unlike my previous essay on the matter, which largely addressed only the former problem, this essay intends to address each problem in turn.

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