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Chapter 12 - With great power comes great responsibility
Job makes appeals to God's omnipotent nature, seeming to build a case that God is responsible for all of the suffering in the world since he oversees it.
*Atonement as God Paying For the Creation of Evil*
Natural human moral intuitions guide us to understand that power is connected to responsibility. There is an argument for saying that God was obligated to pay for the suffering of humanity because in the final analysis, God is responsible for it. When looked at through the lens of divine responsibility, Christ's suffering almost makes sense as a type of obligatory compensation to humanity for providing humanity with such a harm-ridden universe. Under this framework, one could theologically argue that the creation of evil was of such benefit to man that God was willing to pay the price of justice in order to deliver it to us - allowing himself to be tortured for every torturous lesson he delivered to humanity. But this solution to the problem of evil necessitates the conception of a God who is not fully omnipotent - a God who is unable to teach his children except by the creation of evil.
NEXT: Chapter 13 - Stockholm syndrome
Job makes appeals to God's omnipotent nature, seeming to build a case that God is responsible for all of the suffering in the world since he oversees it.
*Atonement as God Paying For the Creation of Evil*
Natural human moral intuitions guide us to understand that power is connected to responsibility. There is an argument for saying that God was obligated to pay for the suffering of humanity because in the final analysis, God is responsible for it. When looked at through the lens of divine responsibility, Christ's suffering almost makes sense as a type of obligatory compensation to humanity for providing humanity with such a harm-ridden universe. Under this framework, one could theologically argue that the creation of evil was of such benefit to man that God was willing to pay the price of justice in order to deliver it to us - allowing himself to be tortured for every torturous lesson he delivered to humanity. But this solution to the problem of evil necessitates the conception of a God who is not fully omnipotent - a God who is unable to teach his children except by the creation of evil.
NEXT: Chapter 13 - Stockholm syndrome
