It removes the veil it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul” (604, 605). But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world… No doubt Pain as God’s megaphone is a terrible instrument it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. Key Concepts: #1: Pain makes us realize… our need for God! Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both.” This is the problem of pain, in its simplest form (560). If God were good, He would wish to make His creatures perfectly happy, and if God were almighty He would be able to do what He wished. Lewis’ first apologetic book, in which takes on the great challenge of reconciling the notion of an all-powerful and loving God and the existence of pain & suffering.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |