If God, Why Evil?

This weekend we close our current sermon series, Answers, by discussing the most often cited reason people struggle with belief in God – the existence of evil. Everyone experiences the reality of evil, but does evil deny the existence of God? Eighteenth century, atheistic philosopher David Hume argued that exact point when he paraphrased Epicurus, a Greek philosopher who lived 300 years before the birth of Christ.

"Is [God] willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?"

Hume’s questions, and many similar arguments, have come to be known as The Problem of Evil. The argument says the God of the Bible, revealed as all knowing, all powerful, and all good, must not exist if evil is present. It is a powerful argument. And one that every Christian must contend with in his or her own heart in the midst of suffering, if not publicly in the face of a skeptic.

Join us on Sunday, when we will explore a few bad responses to the Problem of Evil and then spend a few minutes going over the Biblical response to the evil both in our hearts and in our world.

See you then,

Whitney