(July 29, 2021 at 3:23 pm)Ten Wrote:(July 29, 2021 at 3:15 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Job 38 seems like the most fitting reply to the OP. I do not think I could improve on its basic call for epistemic humility.
Sure. "Look at the trees" incredulity. So, you have no evidence that your creator god is good and has good will other than "he said he created everything in his magic book and you should therefore shut up"? Because I just read Job 38 and that's all I got out of it.
Maybe you misunderstood or I was not clear. Very often theodicy is presented as if it were a defeater to Christian theism when in fact the so-called problem of evil is the actual argument from incredulity, i.e. the presenter claiming they cannot imagine what divine purpose could justify the touble, pains, and hardships of life. Job 38 is a reminder of how little we truly know.
That said, if there are truly vast cosmic forces of which we are unaware, and to me that seems obvious, then it seems reasonable to wonder what they might be and how one could align one's life to best account for them...without dwelling on it too much or projecting unwarranted certainty. Personally, I have more than enough reasons to say for myself that I know God exists but not much more than that. I have hope that God cares for me and has a plan even if it often does not seem so.
That said, I find discussions about theodicy frustrating because participants cannot seem to agree on a common nomeclature because there are too many terms of art bandied about.
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