After the mosque shooting, some of my atheist friends have debated with me about the classic problem of evil, as in why an all-loving GOD allows what appears to be unnecessary suffering, and I'm curious as to how to approach this issue without having said friends become hardened from the glory of GOD.
Solving The Problem of Evil
Nathaniel Reed
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Jaxon Walker
The answer lies in the Resurrection.
One of the forgotten tenets of Christianity (thanks to the Reformation) is the very fact that every single life has already been bought and paid for the life, death, and return of Jesus Christ.
Every victim, every murderer, every babe, and every crone will return. There is not a soul that has been lost, everyone will be resurrected and returned to their corporal body, even the ones who have died in the womb. What will happen to these souls is another topic, but in Christianity - authentic, apostolic Christianity - this is the answer.
Evan Allen
It's a hard one I admit, but here's how I think is best to consider it.
By direct manifestation, I mean to exclude the Christ, who was made manifest in a body.
Henry Morales
Do you mean universalism? Or do you just mean the general resurrection?
Asher Fisher
No. Everybody will be resurrected, but all will be put in either Heaven or Hell, at the direction of Christ.
yep.
the problem of evil is impossible to answer if you throw out original sin/general resurrection.
Lucas Robinson
im sorry what?
Matthew Rodriguez
physical body, as opposed to the "spirit", which is our body-less spirits.
and even as another distinction from the "spiritual body", which is what St. Paul more or less refers to as our "perfected" forms post Judgement, where we no longer suffer from the effects of original sin and we get to enjoy the New Earth with Christ forever present.
Connor Phillips
Watch this, friend:
Joseph Watson
This is an easy problem. If you accept God is perfect then anything different from God (such as the universe) is imperfect by nature and therefore contains evil.
Joshua Miller
God didn't create evil