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 The Epicurean Paradox  Why Does God Allow Evil?  Why doesn’t He remove it? The Problem of Evil Willing but unable Epicurus Greek Philosopher ( BC)

 The Epicurean Paradox  Why Does God Allow Evil?  Why doesn’t He remove it? The Problem of Evil Willing but unable Feeble Epicurus Greek Philosopher ( BC)

 The Epicurean Paradox  Why Does God Allow Evil?  Why doesn’t He remove it? The Problem of Evil Willing but unable Feeble God is not feeble Epicurus Greek Philosopher ( BC)

 The Epicurean Paradox  Why Does God Allow Evil?  Why doesn’t He remove it? The Problem of Evil Willing but unable Able but unwilling Feeble God is not feeble Epicurus Greek Philosopher ( BC)

 The Epicurean Paradox  Why Does God Allow Evil?  Why doesn’t He remove it? The Problem of Evil Willing but unable Able but unwilling FeebleHateful God is not feeble Epicurus Greek Philosopher ( BC)

 The Epicurean Paradox  Why Does God Allow Evil?  Why doesn’t He remove it? The Problem of Evil Willing but unable Able but unwilling FeebleHateful God is not feeble God is not hateful Epicurus Greek Philosopher ( BC)

 The Epicurean Paradox  Why Does God Allow Evil?  Why doesn’t He remove it? The Problem of Evil Willing but unable Able but unwilling Unwilling and unable FeebleHateful God is not feeble God is not hateful Epicurus Greek Philosopher ( BC)

 The Epicurean Paradox  Why Does God Allow Evil?  Why doesn’t He remove it? The Problem of Evil Willing but unable Able but unwilling Unwilling and unable FeebleHateful Feeble and Hateful God is not feeble God is not hateful Epicurus Greek Philosopher ( BC)

 The Epicurean Paradox  Why Does God Allow Evil?  Why doesn’t He remove it? The Problem of Evil Willing but unable Able but unwilling Unwilling and unable FeebleHateful Feeble and Hateful God is not feeble God is not hateful He is not God Epicurus Greek Philosopher ( BC)

 The Epicurean Paradox  Why Does God Allow Evil?  Why doesn’t He remove it? The Problem of Evil Willing but unable Able but unwilling Unwilling and unable Willing and able FeebleHateful Feeble and Hateful God is not feeble God is not hateful He is not God Epicurus Greek Philosopher ( BC)

 The Epicurean Paradox  Why Does God Allow Evil?  Why doesn’t He remove it? The Problem of Evil Willing but unable Able but unwilling Unwilling and unable Willing and able FeebleHateful Feeble and Hateful What is evil’s source? God is not feeble God is not hateful He is not God Epicurus Greek Philosopher ( BC)

 The Epicurean Paradox  Why Does God Allow Evil?  Why doesn’t He remove it? The Problem of Evil Willing but unable Able but unwilling Unwilling and unable Willing and able FeebleHateful Feeble and Hateful What is evil’s source? God is not feeble God is not hateful He is not God Why isn’t it removed? Epicurus Greek Philosopher ( BC)

 The Epicurean Paradox  David Hume “Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?” ( Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, 10). The Problem of Evil David Hume Skeptic Philosopher ( )

 The Epicurean Paradox  David Hume  John Calvin  “Good as well as evil was produced by the command of God” ( Institutes of the Christian Religion, ).  It is “the feebleness of our intellect” that keeps us from understanding how God “wills and wills not the very same thing” ( ibid., ). The Problem of Evil John Calvin Protestant Reformer ( )

 The Epicurean Paradox  David Hume  John Calvin  Westminster Confession of Faith  The power, wisdom, and goodness of God caused “the first fall, and all other sins of angels and men” and yet God somehow did it in such a way that human sinfulness comes, “only from the creature [i.e. human beings], and not from God” ( Westminster Confession of Faith, “Of Providence,” 5.4). The Problem of Evil Westminster Confession of Faith 1646

 What Is Evil?  In English: “Profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, esp. when regarded as a supernatural force” ( New Oxford American Dictionary ).  In the OT, the Heb. verb ra‘a‘ meant “to be bad, to be evil” (BDB).  In the NT, the Gr. adj. kakos could refer to things that are simply “troublesome” or to things that are “wicked” (Thayer). Is God to Blame for Human Wickedness?

 What Is Evil?  Everything that is evil (as we use the term) could be said to be “bad,” but not everything “bad” is necessarily evil in any moral sense.  A toothache is a bad thing, but it is not morally evil. Is God to Blame for Human Wickedness?

“Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am tempted by God’; for God cannot be tempted by evil (Gr. kakos ), nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed” (NKJV). James 1:13-14

“You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, nor shall evil ( ra‘ ) dwell with You.” Psalm 5:4

“Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil ( ra‘ ) and good?” (KJV). “Woe and well-being” (NKJV). Lamentations 3:38

“Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil ( ra‘ ) in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?” (KJV). “Calamity” (NKJV). Amos 3:6

“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil ( ra‘ ): I the LORD do all these things.” (KJV). “Calamity” (NKJV). Isaiah 45:7

 What Is The Source of Evil? Is God to Blame for Human Wickedness?

“But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed” (NKJV). James 1:14

 What Is The Source of Evil?  All human desires have lawful outlets by which they can be fulfilled.  The desire for food can lawfully be fulfilled by working for a living (2 Thess. 3:8).  The desire for sexuality may be lawfully fulfilled in lawful marriage (1 Cor. 7:2-4). Is God to Blame for Human Wickedness?

 What Is The Source of Evil?  Choosing to unlawfully satisfy desire is following “ungodly lusts” (Jude 18), or walking according to one’s “own lusts” (2 Pet. 3:3; Jude 16), and pursuing things that are the “desires of the flesh and of the mind” (Eph. 2:3).  The source of all human wickedness can be traced to some unlawful attempt to satisfy desire in a way that is contrary to God’s revealed will. Is God to Blame for Human Wickedness?

 Why Doesn’t God Remove Evil? Is God to Blame for Human Wickedness?

“Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, But establish the just; For the righteous God tests the hearts and minds” (NKJV). Psalm 7:9

“…He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.” Acts 17:26-27

 Why Doesn’t God Remove Evil?  Is it evil on God’s part to allow the opportunity for the evil man does to harm others? No. 1.He has commanded man not to do evil (2 Kings 17:13; Ezek. 18:32). 2.He has limited the evil that man can do—our lifetimes are temporary (Gen. 6:3; Psa. 90:12). 3.He will punish the wicked for their rebellion and any harm done to others (Jude 14-15). Is God to Blame for Human Wickedness?