tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post883447684525163763..comments2024-03-18T18:19:19.002-07:00Comments on bylogos: Why (so much) Evil?john bylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766117392831032432noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-88434623651529224922019-01-31T19:15:10.507-08:002019-01-31T19:15:10.507-08:00Hi John
Thanks for your comment. Welty, as far as...Hi John<br /><br />Thanks for your comment. Welty, as far as I have found, does not refer to Rom.7:13. However, he does refer to God's curse (Gen.3) affecting not just humans but the earth (Rom.8), and of natural evil testifying that we live in a “deeply messed-up world”, a “fallen world”. john bylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05766117392831032432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-31805338529930589522019-01-31T12:07:05.559-08:002019-01-31T12:07:05.559-08:00Dr. Byl:
T. Plantinga wrote a book on this topic, ...Dr. Byl:<br />T. Plantinga wrote a book on this topic, back in the 1980's I think. If I'm not mistaken the title was, Learning to Live with Evil. I read it a long time ago, and I think I remember an attempt at an explanation of the problem of evil.<br /><br /><br />I am curious: is there in Welty's work an explanation of Rom. 7:13, relating to the effects of sin upon all that originally was good?<br /><br />Rom. 7:13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.<br /><br /><br />The question of Why Sin? is most often related to (as "theodicy" suggests) an attack on the goodness and justice of God, usually driven by a justification of some sins as not sinful but rather just natural; such as homosexuality being justified in our times. As Rom. 7:13 indicates, something good is condemned, but only so as to justify sins.<br /><br />JohnVJohnVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00330406643601471203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-53106360430626513512019-01-26T19:48:48.677-08:002019-01-26T19:48:48.677-08:00Hi Ralph
Thanks for your comment. Good to hear fr...Hi Ralph<br /><br />Thanks for your comment. Good to hear from a former student. I hope you are doing well.john bylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05766117392831032432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-20297179324270378902019-01-26T06:53:09.378-08:002019-01-26T06:53:09.378-08:00Dr. Byl nice to see that you are still active. I ...Dr. Byl nice to see that you are still active. I appreciate all the work you do through this blog<br />Ralph Eschbach<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-88390283102809130052019-01-19T11:32:45.190-08:002019-01-19T11:32:45.190-08:00Hi Steve
Thanks for your comment. Yes, this book ...Hi Steve<br /><br />Thanks for your comment. Yes, this book is indeed in "The Big Ten: Critical Questions Answered" Series edited by James Anderson & Greg Welty.john bylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05766117392831032432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-74767965582975483502019-01-18T14:25:40.112-08:002019-01-18T14:25:40.112-08:00I carry around in my Bible, a color-coded graphica...I carry around in my Bible, a color-coded graphical display of the geologic column with its eons, eras, periods and epochs. This graph delineates five mass extinction events, with a sixth between the Miocene and the Pliocene about 5.3Ma. The first mass extinction between the Ordovician and Silurian supposedly happened about 425Ma and wiped out 86% of all life. The third mass extinction between the Permian and Triassic wiped out 90% of life. The sixth, as mentioned above, wiped out a vast majority of all mammals. <br /><br />If Christ in his work of creation of biological life on earth circa 4.5 billion years ago in the Haydean, waited 4.075 billion years, then wiped out that life in the first mass extinction, then created more life and wiped them out again in the second mass extinction, then created more life and wiped them out in the third mass extinction, then created more life and wiped them out in the fourth mass extinction, then created more life and wiped them out in the firth mass extinction, then yet again created more life and wiped them in the sixth and final mass extinction, does that say anything about Christ? Incompetence? Capricious? Trial and error? Couldn't get it right, so it took Him 6 times? And what does that say about death, disease, destruction during that time?<br /><br />It says, (and the unregenerate rightly point out), that Christ is a monster, a diabolical fiend, a capricious puppeteer who doesn't or can't create with total omnipotent power, controlling every aspect of His creation to fulfill His perfect Will. If the geologic column is the way Christ created His biological life on this planet, then He is neither perfect nor sinless, nor even holy.Steve Drakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06281645028946507619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772414331480635861.post-11831501218404403512019-01-09T06:57:08.157-08:002019-01-09T06:57:08.157-08:00Volume 3 in the "Big Ten" series that he...Volume 3 in the "Big Ten" series that he (Greg Welty) and James Anderson of, I presume, Reformed Theological Seminary and blogsite proginosko.com are editing for Christian Focus Publications?<br /><br />Unfortunately, not addressing the alleged scientific objections, seems to me to be another example of a scholarly Christian brother, yet again, avoiding the topic of the age of the earth and universe. They don't want to touch it; so don't talk about it. Too controversial, too much division, so just ignore it.<br /><br />Sad, really. But more than sad, a direct assault on Christ's most holy and absolutely perfect character in His work of creation. Unable to see the dichotomy of holding a perfect and sinless Christ in His work on earth, yet avoiding the implications and charge against a perfect and sinless Christ in His work of creation.Steve Drakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06281645028946507619noreply@blogger.com