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Hume: Epicurus' old questions are yet unanswered. Is [God] 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?
— Jul 05, 2014 09:52PM
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Perhaps God not only could be a tyrant but is. Arguably this is Job's discomfiting discovery as he moves from a faith in God's secret judgments to a growing awareness of a pattern of human misfortune that God's nature is arbitrary judgment, not love.
— May 07, 2014 09:36PM
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From the book oj Job, [Pope] Gregory [the Great] authoritatively derives this saving knowledge—and learns that this saving knowledge can be truly gained only through suffering, loneliness, cognitive collapse, and penance. Gregory's Job is our guide through these depths and out of them again.
— May 06, 2014 09:17PM
