Why God Can’t Stop Evil

And why that’s good news.

Eric Sentell
The Apeiron Blog
Published in
9 min readApr 4, 2021

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The problem of evil, or theodicy, has been debated in Christianity for millennia. It’s a challenge for every religion as well as non-religious people; suffering is a universal human experience.

But the problem of evil is especially thorny for the Christian deity. If the Christian God is all-loving, all-knowing, and all-powerful, then why is there genuine…

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