After reading my post on Zac Smith’s cancer a while back, a friend of mine saw a link in the sidebar to a related post, “The Grace of Cancer,” and left a comment challenging my choice of words when I repeatedly said that God gave cancer to a man from our church to bring him […]
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Was the Oil Spill an Act of God?
Rick Warren tweeted earlier today, “When people call an ocean oil spill caused by human drilling ‘an Act of God,’ THAT, friends, is taking God’s name in vain!” To my surprise, I enjoy a lot of what Warren tweets, but in this case I think he has it precisely backwards. Failing to attribute to God […]
Resources on the Problem of Evil
I’ve seen several treatments of the problem of evil around the blogosphere recently. Interview with John Frame on the Problem of Evil Andy Naselli at Between Two Worlds The Logical and Emotional Problems of Evil Andy Naselli at his Theology blog The Problem of Evil, Suffering, and Pain C. Michael Patton at Parchment and Pen […]