Theodicy

If God is all-knowing, all-good and all-powerful

• why do bad things happen to good people?

A God who is all-knowing

• would know when bad things
  • are happening to good people.

A God who is all-good

• would not want bad things
  • to happen to good people.

A God who is all-powerful

• would be able to stop bad things
  • from happening to good people.

Is God all-knowing and all-good

• but not all-powerful?

Is God all-knowing and all-powerful

• but not all-good?

Is God all-good and all-powerful

• but not all-knowing?

Some say everything that happens

• is God’s will.
  • No. It isnt.

Some say victims are to blame

• for their own victimization.
  • No. They aren’t.

Some say God has a lot

• of explaining to do.
  • Yes. A lot of explaining.

What if we wake up one day

• as if from a dream
  • like ants from hibernation
    • suddenly understanding
      • how Mozart wrote Jupiter?