From: alarm@yabbs
To: 8charact@yabbs
Subject: re: When good things happen....
Date: Mon Aug  1 19:23:11 1994
8,
I read the book When Bad Things Happen to Good People and didn't like it. 
His solution to the problem of evil was that God was too weak. I think 
that's a weak solution. 

The classic answers to the problem of evil have been to deny that evil 
exists, or to deny that a good God exists, or to say that that God was too 
weak to help us, or that God has created a universe that is best for 
building character and faith and trust (so that evil has a good outcome), 
or to say that God gave humanity free will and we created evil ourselves 
by sinning in the garden. Although none of these solutions is completely 
psychologically satisfying, the first three are lousy answers in my book.

sounding the
 alarm