It's Complicated -Exploring Life's Difficuties......
The author takes a hard look at everyday problems, and their impact on human lives; and offers possible solutions.
The author takes a hard look at everyday problems, and their impact on human lives; and offers possible solutions.
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It’s <strong>Complicated</strong>: <strong>Exploring</strong> Life Difficulties and Finding Divine Serendipity<br />
who exists before everything in the universe, and the<br />
created order. It is against any sort of ontological<br />
dualism, that is, a kind of dualism in which there is a good<br />
force and a bad force, or one force with a good side and<br />
the bad side.<br />
(4) There is one God who is good, and he made<br />
everything good. And so the origin of evil is not<br />
intrinsically a good principle and a bad principle that are<br />
in competition. Even when the serpent is introduced, he<br />
is introduced as the subtlest of the creatures that God<br />
made. And thus, there never is any hint of dualism or<br />
anything of that sort. There is one sovereign God over<br />
the whole. That raises the question. How does God stand<br />
behind good and evil? On the long haul the Bible lays a<br />
lot of emphasis on God standing behind good and evil<br />
asymmetrically. That is, he stands behind good and evil<br />
in different ways. He stands behind good in such a way<br />
that the good is always creditable to him and the evil is<br />
always creditable to secondary causalities, like the<br />
serpent, even though it can’t sweep away God’s<br />
sovereignty.<br />
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