If this is your channel Mr Piper, I want you to know I truly love you. You have done more for me than you know and I would give just about anything for one hour of bible study time with you. I can feel the spirit when I spend time "with you" online "in the Word." May God bless you, keep you healthy and able to continue doing what you do. You are truly someone who loves Him with all your heart. It shows.
I think Epicurus' question is a good, valid, and a legitimate question and there might be non-Christians as well as Christians struggling with it.
I'd answer Epicurus' question as follows:
God is able but not always willing because evil has a purpose for its existence.
God can use evil or let evil take place temporarily and/or in finite amount for a larger plan that is ultimately good. Proverbs 16:4-5 is an evidence for this. And, the book of Job is an example.
It seems to me that you don't believe in God and you want to promote your unbelief.
Just so you know a person who is out to promote unbelief will never find any satisfactory answers that promote belief. This person (you) is unlike a person who wishes to believe, but may have come across an obstacle, perhaps what you have posted above.
The answer to the above is simple (to all observers). Justice delayed is still Justice. God is willing, and sovereign over all, yet we still are accountable.
If this is your channel Mr Piper, I want you to know I truly love you. You have done more for me than you know and I would give just about anything for one hour of bible study time with you. I can feel the spirit when I spend time "with you" online "in the Word." May God bless you, keep you healthy and able to continue doing what you do. You are truly someone who loves Him with all your heart. It shows.
Barbara in IN
indibabs122275 1 week ago
Amen.
SmileLoveForgive 1 year ago
I think Epicurus' question is a good, valid, and a legitimate question and there might be non-Christians as well as Christians struggling with it.
I'd answer Epicurus' question as follows:
God is able but not always willing because evil has a purpose for its existence.
God can use evil or let evil take place temporarily and/or in finite amount for a larger plan that is ultimately good. Proverbs 16:4-5 is an evidence for this. And, the book of Job is an example.
Hope this answers your question.
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herculesAML 1 year ago
It seems to me that you don't believe in God and you want to promote your unbelief.
Just so you know a person who is out to promote unbelief will never find any satisfactory answers that promote belief. This person (you) is unlike a person who wishes to believe, but may have come across an obstacle, perhaps what you have posted above.
The answer to the above is simple (to all observers). Justice delayed is still Justice. God is willing, and sovereign over all, yet we still are accountable.
senk3i 3 years ago
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?"
— Epicurus (ca. 341-270 BCE), Greek philosopher
flaccidpackage 3 years ago