Case 06 · Apologetic · The class
Problem of Evil
The strongest forms of the objection and the responses that have held up.
8 claims · 22 exhibits · 32 objections answered
What this case argues
- The Christian scriptures present God as entering human suffering himself rather than standing apart from it.
- Scripture presents a world made good and then broken by human rebellion, so it diagnoses evil rather than pretending it is not there.
- Scripture presents the resurrection of Jesus as God’s declaration that death and evil do not get the last word.
- Scripture does not promise believers an easy life, but it does promise that God can work even evil toward good.
- Scripture presents evil as running through every person, and God’s delay in ending it as patience that leaves room for people to turn back.
- Scripture ties genuine love and obedience to genuine choice, which supports the idea that a world of free creatures is worth its risks.
- The logical problem of evil, the claim that God and evil cannot both exist, is now widely regarded as answered.
- The serious problem of evil is the evidential one, that the amount and depth of suffering counts as evidence against God, and it has real replies.
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