Theodicy

If God is all-knowing, all-good and all-powerful

  • why do bad things happen to good people?

A God who is all-knowing

  • would know when bad things
    • are happening to good people.

A God who is all-good

  • would not want bad things
    • to happen to good people.

A God who is all-powerful

  • would be able to stop bad things
    • from happening to good people.

Is God all-knowing and all-good

  • but not all-powerful?

Is God all-knowing and all-powerful

  • but not all-good?

Is God all-good and all-powerful

  • but not all-knowing?

Some say everything that happens

  • is God’s will.
    • No. It isnt.

Some say victims are to blame

  • for their own victimization.
    • No. They aren’t.

Some say God has a lot

  • of explaining to do.
    • Yes. A lot of explaining.

What if we wake up one day

  • as if from a dream
    • like ants from hibernation
      • suddenly understanding
        • how Mozart wrote Jupiter?
author: Todd Matson