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The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?
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11 minute read
Published Mar 15, 2011
What you'll learn
One of the most challenging objections to God is also one of the most ancient ones: How could a good God allow such evil and suffering? Is he not powerful enough to stop it? Or, if he is, why doesn’t he? Natural disasters like tsunamis and earthquakes inevitably evoke questions about and interrogations of the divine. Scholar David Bentley Hart invites Christians to allow the weight of the world’s horrors to affect them even as they hold to the hope that God will bring his kingdom, where suffering and evil find no place.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 In moments of tragedy, when words fall short, it’s probably best that we fall silent.
- 2 The responses of skeptics to tragedy are sometimes more Christian than Christians’ responses.
- 3 Not all arguments against God are created equal.
- 4 The strongest argument against God’s goodness was made by a devoted Christian.
- 5 Calvinism’s pre-determinism complicates the problem of evil by insisting that God is evil’s author.
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