The difficulty with equivocal and univocal languageĢ. On the other hand, if God’s moral judgment differs from ours so that our black may be His white, we can mean nothing by calling Him good for to say, ‘God is Good,’ while asserting that His goodness is wholly other than ours, is really only to say, ‘God is we know not what.”’Ī. What seems to us good may therefore not be good in His eyes, and what seems to us evil may not be evil. Problem: “If God is wiser than we His judgment must differ from ours on many things, and not least on good and evil. Them-that His own goodness is the root from which they all growĪnd his own omnipotence is the air in which they flower.” (27)īig Idea: God’s definition of Goodness must include human pain. Himself produces His acts and no external obstacle impedes The Freedom of God consists in the fact that no cause other than Loving God more than the self or the self more than God.” (20)Ĥ. “their freedom is simply that of making a single naked choice-of Freedom for the creature implies that there is a choice the impossible/contradictions are not things but non-entities asģ. God cannot be righteous and unrighteous at the same time-thatĬ. God has the power to do anything that is consistent with his natureĪ. God does not have the power to do anythingĢ. This assumes that “goodness”, “happiness,” and “omnipotence” are definedġ. Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both.’ This is the problem of pain in its simplest form. Initial Problem: “‘If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures perfectly happy, and if God were almighty He would be able to do what he wished. Rather than solving it-were God other than good, as he describes himself,

The very fact that we have a good creator as God creates the problem of pain If the records make the first hypothesis unacceptable, youĬ. Or else He was, and is, precisely what he said. “Either he was a raving lunatic of an unusually abominable type, Moral teaching you must accept his teaching about his divine being You thus cannot write off moral teaching of Jesus, and if you accept his Men stand condemned of their moral failure regardless of theirĤ.

Moral goodness/guilt is not result of cause & effectģ. Physical qualities, but inferred from physical qualitiesĢ. Note that dread & awe stemming from the created order are not Yet, if there is so much pain on the earth, why did human beings ever attributeġ. Has left to answer is the question of suicide”ī. Albert Camus (1913-1960)-“the only question modern man Man has the capacity not only to feel pain, but to anticipate pain In the natural world life is sustained through the death of other thingsģ. In the natural world creatures prey upon one anotherĢ.

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