God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer - Bart D. Ehrman
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In times of questioning and despair, people often quote the Bible to provide answers. Surprisingly, though, the Bible does not have one answer but many “answers” that often contradict one another. Consider these competing explanations for suffering put forth by various biblical writers:
The prophets: suffering is a punishment for sin
The book of Job, which offers two different answers: suffering is a test, and you will be rewarded later for passing it; and suffering is beyond comprehension, since we are just human beings and God, after all, is God
Ecclesiastes: suffering is the nature of things, so just accept it
All apocalyptic texts in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament: God will eventually make right all that is wrong with the world
For renowned Bible scholar Bart Ehrman, the question of why there is so much suffering in the world is more than a haunting thought. Ehrman’s inability to reconcile the claims of faith with the facts of real life led the former pastor of the Princeton Baptist Church to reject Christianity.
In God’s Problem, Ehrman discusses his personal anguish upon discovering the Bible’s contradictory explanations for suffering and invites all people of faith—or no faith—to confront their deepest questions about how God engages the world and each of us
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This post has 7 comments
October 10th, 2018
Read a lot of Ehrman. He’s a bit of a one trick pony, but its a helluva trick.
Thanks
October 11th, 2018
Bart - the answer is very simple: we weren’t created to be robots. Adam’s free will put us in the soup, Jesus’ free will saved us. 1 Corinthians 15:22 et al.
And yes, you’re welcome for the theme of your next book.
October 11th, 2018
We need an entire book to figure this out?
October 11th, 2018
chrisxiii, If you actually read the book, you’ll discover why he finds that answer unconvincing.
October 11th, 2018
If the Bartman isn’t persuaded, that doesn’t invalidate an argument, let alone a religion.
We are victim/perpetrators and our volition and free agency (as chrisxiii observed) open us up to possibilities of both pleasure and pain. We must choose to help ourselves and others.
The avenues are there for all of us, and through love we will the good of the other.
On an epistemic level, must good and evil exist in a complementary relation? Heavy merde - personally, I’m an Augustinian theodicist.
October 12th, 2018
There are two and only two answers the the question, “why has God allowed the suffereing of the world?”
1.) God is unwilling to stop suffering.
2.) God is unable to stop suffering.
There is no third option. Really. There is no third option.
If god is unwilling, then god is evil.
If god is unable then who is his boss?
October 12th, 2018
But, if you accept “the God hypothesis” and are open to that unimaginable, inconceivable, speculation, then isn’t this like an infant trying to understand the complex mind of an adult? Can a newborn baby grasp and comprehend her parents’ consciousness?
I can’t even fully understand my own consciousness. For all we think we know, we really don’t know anything for certain. We can’t rule out any possibility. Faith and certainty are opposites.
Baldly, the theist would argue that this is a temporary plane of existence, which is good in many aspects, but not perfect. We have a Platonic conception of perfection, but it doesn’t exist on this plane. This is a realm of will and choice. Will can cause moral evil as well as good because we are not determined automata. Love must be freely chosen and acted upon, thereby creating the good. Free will must be factored in even if you’re a downright Epicurean!
Of course, we can’t “eff” the ineffable.
Consider the improbability of existence itself - that old question, why is there something rather than nothing?
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