Is it okay to do evil if a greater good results from it? In the last post we considered how evil may occur due to our failure to bring about good in the world – a concept most famously coined by political philosopher Edmund Burke who observed that ‘all that is necessary for evil to […]
Why doesn’t God lay down a marker so we know those who are evil from those who are good? Now, because the issue of God’s lack of intervention in our world will be addressed in a future post, it will suffice at this point to consider one serious flaw in the proposal that God remove […]
Why doesn’t God do something about evil people in the world? A bomb explodes killing scores of people and injuring others. Terrorists lay siege to a building taking children and teachers hostage. Refugees are murdered in a wave of ethnic cleansing. Women are kidnapped and trafficked into a foreign country to serve as sex […]