Do You Still Think God Is Good?
Candid Conversations About the Problem of Evil
by Clayton Brumby
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Pub Date Oct 14 2014 | Archive Date Feb 03 2015
Description
Do You Still Think God Is Good? takes a very academic and philosophical topic, and through a couple of breakfast conversations among friends and acquaintances, explores it as directly as possible. The format is designed to make this very important topic accessible.
What is evil really?
Where does it come from?
And if God is really God, why doesn’t he do more about it? This world is
out of control-so violent, painful, unfair and destructive. Doesn’t God
care?
The Greek philosopher Epicurus is credited with saying:
Either God wants to abolish evil and cannot; or he can but does not want to; or he cannot and does not want to. If he wants to but cannot, he is impotent. If he can and does not want to, he is wicked. But if God both can and wants to abolish evil, then how comes evil in the world?
This is known as the Epicurean paradox. Obviously, mankind has been wrestling with the problem of evil for some time; Epicurus lived between 340-270 BC.
Fast-forward twenty-three hundred years. Eric Jennings is a freshman at the University of Florida. He and his older sister, Libby, have moved in from the mission field to enter the premed program to become medical missionaries. Eric’s roommate, Todd Rehnquist, though a baseball teammate and a good friend, is an atheist. And he poses the “problem” to Eric using an interesting quote. This sets in motion a conversation between Eric, Todd, Libby, Ray Cohen, the Jennings’ former science teacher, and Mike Murphy, a local youth minister and one of Eric’s spiritual mentors. The conversation happens at an area breakfast haunt, the Gator Skillet. Follow them as they wrestle with this most profound of issues and connect the dots. You’ll find that the answers are as simple as they are surprising.
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| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781630470654 |
| PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Gena D, Educator
Is God still good in the midst of our troubles? Perhaps especially then.
Clayton Brumby explores the question of God's goodness in a world of evil. Excellent book!
Jeanie S, Reviewer
Have you been in a conversation about God and the evil that is so much in the world today? How can a good God allow evil? These are tough questions and questions that need to be where we think deeply to give answers to a world that is unbelieving. This study is unique that you are brought into a conversation of students and professors each with different backgrounds and different life experiences that ask and answer these questions. Starting with morality and where does morality come from.
Evolution understands mankind as simply as extension of the animal kingdom, however, that being said where does morality come in? If humans have rights, then animals have rights too? To what extent and what is our responsibility? In thinking this thru, if Darwinist are taking their revolutionary worldview seriously, why are animals not held accountable? Morality is such a big can worms, however, how we look at morality affects the laws and society we live in. The source of morality must be one that is good, justice, and sovereign.
Out of morality, evil exists. For rust to occur there must be steel. For adultery to exist, a marriage must take place. Evil’s existence than is dependent on the existence of the good it becomes the corruption of.
In rules of nature and design, a lie becomes evil without regarding the rules of nature and design. So think this thru without the emotion of individual rights. Abortion is a lie that is evil. If we continue without regard of nature and design, what consequences can a society acquire as it continues against nature and design? Life is not valued and from life not being valued crime becomes rampant. Not just crime, but relationships as well. We can easily disregard one another, because the value of another life does not exist in the society of abortion.
Engaging in the moral dilemma, we need to understand the beginning of the fall. The fall of man and the fall of Satan and the angels that followed them. How does a created being such as angels that were created morally good, choose something evil. When did morality start? Did Eve choose something evil or did she make an evil choice. I found it interesting the difference between the angels and man in that choice. Because angels are created beings, they are immortal and cannot be saved. Because God removed Man from the Garden and the tree of life, we experience death and decay and we also experience salvation. I found this part so interesting and thoughtful. I loved thinking this all thru
Has God become of no moral consequence today? And if that is true, how has that happened? These questions are asked to make you think thru what you believe and also to have a better understanding of God and his redemption. I highly recommend this book.
A special thank you Morgan James Publishing, and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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