Douglas Wilson: "Have you fixed the Lisbon Problem?"
These pretend atheists (*) like to pretend that "The Problem Of Evil" refutes the Christian understanding of the nature of God. It does not; and they studiously avoid and ignore any and all Christian responses to said problem. MOREOVER, their atheistic "solution" to "The Problem Of Evil" is to deny that there are such things as Good or Evil in the first place.
Can you not see the absurdity of this? The God-haters want to point to the reality of "senseless" evils (**), whether of a moral or of a "natural" nature, WHEN IT SUITS THEM to use such evils as a cudgel with which to attack Christianity and as an excuse to deny the reality of God. Having done so, they shrug their shoulders
at the truth that one must at least implicitly acknowledge the reality of God –
and one must acknowledge that the Christian understanding of the nature of God
is broadly correct, even if incomplete (as, of course, *any* human understanding of the
nature of God must be incomplete) -- before one can even point to the reality
of such evils.
Stripped to its core, the
atheistic “Argument From Evil” is this – “God is. Ergo, God is not!”
(*) They are not truly atheists, because they refuse to follow the logic of their premises to the inescapable logical conclusions. Rather, they are God-haters.
(**) Christianity says that God will rectify all the evils of history, that God will make sense of all evils, that not one of the evils in all of history is ultimately meaningless.
Atheism says that the very concept of 'evil' is meaningless.
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