Q. Although God is often blamed for the evil in the world, aren’t humans actually its cause? When nations go to war over gold or land, isn’t it the nations and not God who are to blame? Would you ...

As a Christian, life becomes a lot easier once we take God at his word. Nevertheless, many find it difficult to do so. One area of great difficulty concerns the origin of evil. Christians find it ...

One of the strongest objections to believe in the Judeo-Christian God has to do with the amount and types of suffering and evil that exist in our world. Philosophers and theologians refer to this as ...

A world more full of weeping than [we] can understand.” David O’Connor quotes this line from Yeats in the first sentence of his book on God and the problem of evil. His conclusion at the end of the ...

The faithful around the world observe Good Friday on Friday, April 7, 2023. Good Friday is the "most solemn day of the year" for Christians, according to the CatholicLink website and many other ...

Jesus’ disciples asked him about a man blind from birth: “who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” (John 9:2). They assum-ed evil is always caused by sin. However, Jesus says ...

Some time ago the British atheist actor Stephen Fry went public with an eloquent and passionate condemnation of God for creating a world with children’s bone cancer, flesh-eating microbes and ...