I have a vague memory that they find God guilty.
At any rate, prayer is for the pray-er, not for God.
U.
JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
Okay, I'm going to have trouble here trying to refer to what I want to because my memory seems to have gone into a black hole somewhere. There's a book written (I THINK) by Elie Weisel, the title of which I have no clue at the moment. The essence of the book is that a group of Rabbis hold a court of sorts; they put God on trial, after the Holocaust. They level charge after charge against Him for his recklessness with human lives, etc. When the trial is over they put on their prayer shawls and pray. If someone recognizes this elusive tale I'd love to know it so I can read it again. But the point is, that after putting God on trial, the next response is simply to worship Him. I'm not sure what that means in a western Aristotelian philosophy, but it means something outside of that confine.
Julie Krueger
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Subj: *[lit-ideas] Re: The Problem of Evil*
Date: 3/9/06 3:28:19 P.M. Central Standard Time
From: Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Forgive me if I'm repeating something someone has already said (I
haven't kept up...) but there's also the vale-of-soul-making theodicy. Irenaeus and others, I think theorized that we are here to perfect our
souls. And the difficulties help us do that. But you have to wonder
why some of us get off so easy and others not. None of the theodicies
seem to get God off the hook. By coincidence I was teaching the Book of
Job last night. Read them a bit of Archibald MacLeish's J.B. for good
measure.
Ursula
Eric wrote:
> Naive me, not knowing the texts, but isn't the issue here the apparent > paradox between God's never willing evil and God's creating human > beings with free will and, thus, introducing the possibility of evil > into Creation? > > > One of the premises is that if God is omniscient, omnipotent, and all > good, then God has a desire to eliminate all the evil from the world. > > Christians seem to argue that the possibility of evil (free will > choosing evil) is necessary for all the good things that come from > free will (and which morally outweigh them), such as salvation and > redemption. Therefore, it is not true that a God would want to > eliminate all evil from the world. > > The roundabout nature of this claim made me call it a narrative > evasion.It also made me wonder about the way evil could be quantified. > How much evil is necessary? If God allows evil to produce the ultimate > good, can God allow TOO MUCH evil? And what would constitute TOO MUCH? > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > >
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