 If God were good, He would wish to make his creatures perfectly happy, and if God were almighty He would be able to do what He wished. But the creatures are not happy. Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both.  The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology - Pagina 1di Wendy Doniger, Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty - 1988 - 411 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Douglas John Hall - 228 pagine
...suffering in terms of the apparent contradiction between the divine goodness and the divine power: "If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures...Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both." This is the problem of pain, in its simplest form.20 Instead of resolving this seeming contradiction,... | |
 | Norma E. Sawyers - 1991 - 172 pagine
...the problem of evil is our most serious contemporary difficulty."2 Lewis voiced our apparent dilemma: "If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures...Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both."3 In other words, either God does not care, or he is powerless to prevent the tragedies and sufferings... | |
 | Peter Kreeft, Ronald K. Tacelli - 2009 - 412 pagine
...all-good, he wants his creatures to be happy. And if he is all-powerful, he can do whatever he wants. But the creatures are not happy. Therefore God lacks either goodness or power or both. 4. Finally, we may set up the problem in such a way as to clarify and classify the different possible... | |
 | Russell Shaw - 2000 - 164 pagine
...go on saying it today. They are grappling with the problem of evil. Here is how CS Lewis states it: "If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures...Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both." There is a classic answer to this objection. In outline it is this: evil is not a positive reality... | |
 | Angela T. McAuliffe - 2000 - 276 pagine
...a God of love and mercy, he is caught on the horns of a dilemma. CS Lewis oudines it quite simply: If God were good, He would wish to make his creatures...Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both.'6' It is in this context that Julian's most anguished questioning pours forth: Who calls him... | |
 | Lyn Clarke, Bernard Williams, Graham Langtree - 2001 - 232 pagine
...explain the significance to religious believers of the following: a purgatory b Akhirah c Barzakh d Atman 'If God were good, he would wish to make his creatures...Therefore God lacks either goodness or power, or both.' (The Problem of Pain by CS Lewis) What problems do evil and suffering raise for religious believers?... | |
 | Armand M. Nicholi - 2002 - 306 pagine
...complicated issues to their very essence. He described the problem with startling clarity. He writes: "If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures...Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both." This, Lewis explains, is the problem of pain in its simplest form. To understand the problem of suffering,... | |
 | Dan Story - 260 pagine
...yet evil and suffering are rampant in the world. How do these facts mesh? CS Lewis puts it this way: "If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures...happy. Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power or both."1 In other words, either God wants to prevent evil but does not have the power to do it, or He... | |
 | Francis S. Collins - 2006 - 305 pagine
...phrased by CS Lewis in The 43 THE WAR OF THE WORLDVIEWS Problem of Pain, the argument goes like this: "If God were good, he would wish to make his creatures...happy. Therefore, God lacks either goodness or power or both."8 There are several answers to this dilemma. Some are easier to accept than others. In the first... | |
 | Regis Martin - 2006 - 292 pagine
...responsible but God is not."43 Lewis, in The Problem of Pain, has nicely captured the classic formulation: "If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures...Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both.44 This, concludes Lewis, is the problem of human pain in its simplest and most stark form. In... | |
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