RE: Your personal take on “The Problem of Evil?”
September 5, 2014 at 8:03 am
(This post was last modified: September 5, 2014 at 8:46 am by Michael.)
Esquilax
I disagree (what a surprise!). I see myself simply as acknowledging a subjective view of an absolute objective truth. I can only ever engage with the objective subjectively, if you get my drift. What I recognise as good and bad does not define good and bad. I could be wrong. But I have to trust that I'm not, so I trust that a proposal that says everything I consider good (and what the Christian faith says is good) is actually bad just doesn't make sense to me. I would have to abandon and reverse my world view. It's certainly a view that would be contrary, if not the polar opposite, to the Christian faith. Could it be that rape is good? I trust that is not the case, and it's certainly a proposition that I can't make sense of.
On Satan. Yes, I was assuming you meant as the bible describes him (though he's generally the accuser or the tempter, at least outside of John the Revelator's vision with which I really struggle). I certainly assumed we'd both see Satan as part of creation rather than the creator. Sure, if you want to redefine Satan as something different you can, but then your words start to have no clear meaning to me because if you do that, without defining them in advance, you'll be speaking a different, and private, language that I can't translate.
I disagree (what a surprise!). I see myself simply as acknowledging a subjective view of an absolute objective truth. I can only ever engage with the objective subjectively, if you get my drift. What I recognise as good and bad does not define good and bad. I could be wrong. But I have to trust that I'm not, so I trust that a proposal that says everything I consider good (and what the Christian faith says is good) is actually bad just doesn't make sense to me. I would have to abandon and reverse my world view. It's certainly a view that would be contrary, if not the polar opposite, to the Christian faith. Could it be that rape is good? I trust that is not the case, and it's certainly a proposition that I can't make sense of.
On Satan. Yes, I was assuming you meant as the bible describes him (though he's generally the accuser or the tempter, at least outside of John the Revelator's vision with which I really struggle). I certainly assumed we'd both see Satan as part of creation rather than the creator. Sure, if you want to redefine Satan as something different you can, but then your words start to have no clear meaning to me because if you do that, without defining them in advance, you'll be speaking a different, and private, language that I can't translate.
