Great and Transcendent Enough

Tim Keller in The Reason for God on why evil and suffering isn’t really evidence against God.

If you have a God great and transcendent enough to be mad at because he hasn’t stopped evil and suffering in the world, then you have (at the same moment) a God great and transcendent enough to have good reasons for allowing it to continue that you can’t know.

Think about that one. I’d say this also has pastoral implications for believers who are experiencing hard providences.

Comments

[kim from hiraeth]

I had to read it twice before I understood what he was saying. You're right. This is worth contemplating. . .

[Lisa writes...]

I recently read The Reason for God and I have to admit, the whole thing is worth reading (and thinking) over twice. Great quote.

[rosemary]

And coming to that understanding, we bow, as Francis Schaeffer used to put it. "Nevertheless, not my will, but Thine." I consider it the battle of our lives---daily.