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From: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: God and suffering
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 13:17:58 EDT
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Summary: 


>>[long discussion, with this primary point:] 
>>Starvation, disease, storms, earthquakes, and so on, are a result, not 
>>of a given sinful action (like rape or murder), but of sin in general.

>	Whew!!!!  For someone who posted a logical argument you
>certainly look silly trying to support it with  this kind of
>evidence!  Haven't you ever heard of Occam's Razor?  [Hunter Scales]

If the argument holds logically, what's your problem?  You wanted to
know how the idea that God is omnipotent and wholly good could be
reconciled with "impersonal" evil.  That allowed me to use the
omnipotence and benevolence of God as postulates in the explanation. 

Do you have a simpler explanation for evil in the presence of an 
omnipotent and benevolent God?

		charli

P.S.  >[here follow the scriptural passages to support his "arguments".]
						       ^^^
      It's "her".