On the Problem of Good

By John Zande

The staggering amount and variety of evil in this world should not be the source of enormous confusion for believers in God. The world has not gone spectacularly wrong. The machine has not malfunctioned. There has been no mistake, no misstep, no ineptitude or imbecilic blunder in the design. The evil which is amplifying through Creation is there for a purpose, there by design, growing, evolving, and it is evolving because the architect of this world-the Creator-not only draws some manner of critical pleasure from its existence, but more importantly, craves its augmentation over time. This world inside which sentience has awoken, uninvited, is the stuff of all nightmares, a living daymare, a defiled experiment draped in ethical ugliness, but between those stubbornly long periods of anxiety and calamity, good exists. Between those repeated seasons of uncertainty and ruin, good pushes through. Between those ever-so faithful cycles of total war where even grass and livestock are considered the enemy, good can flourish, and the existence of this good presents what is arguably the only coherent and consistent argument which can be forwarded by sceptics challenging the existence of a being who for a million tiny sensible reasons cherishes His anonymity and may be identified as simply The Owner of All Infernal Names: The Problem of Good. It is asked: If The Owner of All Infernal Names is omnipotent and omnimalevolent, why does He allow good in the world? Either He cannot prevent it, in which case He is not omnipotent, or He chooses to allow it, in which case He is not omnimalevolent.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 154247793X
• ISBN13: 9781542477932
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"