The Problem of Evil (Part 7) -- The Reasons to Believe #109

Our Reasons to Believe passage from the Word of God today is 1 John 5:13. It reads, "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."

Our Reasons to Believe quote for today is from Greg Koukl. He said, "Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional crutch, wishful thinking? The ax cuts both ways. Perhaps atheists are rejecting God because they've had a bad relationship with their father. Instead of inventing God, have atheists invented non-God? Have they invented atheism to escape some of the frightening implications of God's existence? Think about it."

Our Reason to Believe powerpoint today is titled "The Problem of Evil" part 7 from "The Handbook of Christian Apologetics" by Peter Kreeft and Ronald K. Tacelli. 

Dr. Peter Kreeft and Dr. Ronald K. Tacelli go on to write about "Five Possible Solutions for the Problem of Evil":

Six Methodological Principles

2. We should not minimize, compromise or water down the data. Pantheism and naturalism do just that. They reduce the all-good and all-powerful God which our data deliver to either a pantheistic pudding equally inclusive of good and evil like lumps in the tapioca, or to a "Force" in nature, or the cosmos, which is unable to create the cosmos out of nothing and unable miraculously and supernaturally to turn the forces of evil in the cosmos to good.

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