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Theodicy: God's Sovereignty & Human Freedom
1 The Foundation for Adventist Education Institute for Christian Teaching Education Department – General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists RELIGIOUS FAITHS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL: A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE Lael Caesar, Ph.D. Andrews University 4th Symposium on the Bible and Adventist Scholarship Riviera Maya, Estado Quintana Roo, Mexico March 16-22, 2008 2 RELIGIOUS FAITHS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL: A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE Lael Caesar Andrews University Introduction Beyond these introductory remarks, this paper, on the enigma of the existence of evil, proceeds in four stages. Stage One Stage one presents definitions of three terms—‘theodicy’, ‘pain’, and ‘suffering’. Needless to say, agreement on the meanings of these terms allows reader and writer to stand on common ground with regard to their use throughout the paper. Stage Two In stage two, following the definitions, and under the rubric of “Some Religious Perspectives on Pain and Suffering”, the paper reviews a number of faiths, ancient and modern, on their attitude to pain and/or suffering. The review serves to locate the paper’s subsequent arguments on suffering and evil within a global perspective. Stage Three Thereafter, discussion on suffering and evil reflects on a pair of ironies I find of considerable significance for Christian theodicy. Note that this paper offers no exhaustive answer on theodicy [as defined below]. Rather it proposes the sine qua non for beginning any biblically based Christian theodicy. Theodicies in general are doomed to fail to the extent that they give inadequate address to the question of evil’s origins. In Bart Ehrman’s opinion, humanity’s most important question concerns why we suffer. -
1 Doubting God's Goodness: Life in a Time of War Rich Nathan May 20
Doubting God’s Goodness: Life in a Time of War Rich Nathan May 20, 2012 Apologetics: Doubting God Series Ephesians 6:10-12 I recently heard Dr. Greg Boyd, a pastor from Minneapolis, give the following illustration. I’m expanding on it with a huge degree of pastoral liberty. But the basic idea came from Dr. Greg Boyd. Imagine its June 5, 1944. You are living in France and have rented a beach house and you are planning to vacation with your family on the beach at a place called Normandy. You’ve been working hard all year and are looking forward to kicking back, relaxing, drinking good French wine, swimming in the surf with your children, and enjoying the beach for the next month. Well, to your surprise, that night, June 5, 1944, the sounds of planes flying overhead disturb your sleep. Paratroopers start dropping into your yard. And in the morning, before dawn, flotillas of landing craft land on just the spot you’ve planted your beach umbrella. You, of course, are very upset especially after one of the beach invaders breaks your favorite beach chair when he rolls over it with his tank. And then you have to contend with all the shooting and shells that are landing in your yard. You are in the backyard trying to get a little peace as you lie in your hammock. You finally lose your patience and start screaming at everyone, “Stop it! Stop it! I’m on vacation!” Dr. Boyd’s point was that the problem most Christians have and, indeed, most people have with all of the suffering and pain that exists in our world is that we basically believe that life should be like a vacation instead of like a war. -
Inner Healing and Deliverance As an Essential Component of The
Digital Commons @ George Fox University Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations 1-1-2017 Inner Healing and Deliverance as an Essential Component of the Discipleship Structure of the Local Church Jonathan Lee Shoo Chiang George Fox University, [email protected] This research is a product of the Doctor of Ministry (DMin) program at George Fox University. Find out more about the program. Recommended Citation Shoo Chiang, Jonathan Lee, "Inner Healing and Deliverance as an Essential Component of the Discipleship Structure of the Local Church" (2017). Doctor of Ministry. 234. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/dmin/234 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctor of Ministry by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY INNER HEALING AND DELIVERANCE AS AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF THE DISCIPLESHIP STRUCTURE OF THE LOCAL CHURCH A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF PORTLAND SEMINARY IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF MINISTRY BY JOHNATHAN LEE SHOO CHIANG PORTLAND, OREGON OCTOBER 2017 CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL DMIN DISSERTATION This is to certify that the DMIN Dissertation of Johnathan Lee Shoo Chiang Has been approved by The Dissertation Committee on October 6, 2017 For the degree of Doctor of Ministry in Leadership and Spiritual Formation Dissertation Committee: Primary Advisor: Dr. Leah Payne Secondary Advisor: Dr. Mark Chironna Expert Advisor: Dr. Aida Ramos Copyright 2017© Johnathan Lee Shoo Chiang All rights reserved ii CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ....................................................................................... -
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Naked Bible Podcast Episode 165: Q&A 22 Naked Bible Podcast Transcript Episode 165 Q&A 22 July 1, 2017 Teacher: Dr. Michael S. Heiser (MH) Host: Trey Stricklin (TS) Dr. Heiser answers your questions related to: Source material showing Jesus’ existence When a believer receives the Spirit of God Balaam’s error related to geography Seventy archangels in Jewish studies Theosis Which events in Genesis 1-11 are literal Whether Adam and Eve pooped Transcript TS: Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast, Episode 165: our 22nd Q&A. I'm the layman, Trey Stricklin, and he's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heiser. Hey, Mike, how are you doing? MH: Pretty good, pretty good. Been staying busy, as usual. TS: Yeah. I just want to mention that we talked about how we were going to do our voting for the next book that we're going to cover on the podcast on July 1. We've added another interview, so we're actually going to start the voting on July 15th and run it through August 7th. That's when the voting's going to begin on the what the next book we're going to cover will be. MH: That's good. So in other words, I have a little more time to contact the Russians to have them influence the outcome of our vote, correct? TS: No comment on that. (laughter) The Russians or the Vatican, I don't know who you want to reach out to. The aliens? I don't know. MH: The Rosicrucians, the Templars.. -
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Glocal Conversations Vol 9 (1) May 2021 http://gc.uofn.edu A Cross Vision of G. Boyd’s Cross Vision Paul Miller Email: [email protected] Abstract This paper critiques Greg Boyd’s Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence. The paper commends Boyd’s recognition that the God of the Bible prefers to extend grace and life instead of judgment and death, but addresses Boyd’s woefully inadequate hermeneutic—a hermeneutic based on a radically minimized concept of “revelation.” The paper addresses three basic concerns with Boyd’s approach: first, how Boyd’s hermeneutic fatally undermines the very concept of “inspired revelation”; second, that Boyd’s hermeneutic of “Christ crucified” is accurate but woefully incomplete; and third, that Boyd’s hermeneutic in continually contradicting major biblical themes is fatally hostile to Scripture. Key Words: Greg Boyd, Cross Vision, biblical inspiration, inerrancy, hermeneutics, progressive revelation, atonement, penal substitution ******* No shrinking violet, Boyd’s Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence tackles what he calls “the elephant in the room”: that is, trumpeting confidently the “God of love” on the one hand while holding to God as portrayed in the Old Testament (OT) on the other. Boyd argues that the OT presents “some portraits of God … [that] are, quite frankly, really ugly! How else can you honestly describe a depiction of God, for example, ordering his people to mercilessly annihilate every member of the Midianites except for the virgin girls…?”1 And how does this OT picture harmonize with the New Testament Jesus, who came to self- sacrificially give his life for sinners rather than to take their lives? The answer, according to Boyd, is that it doesn’t. -
Theological Foundations I Essentials of Christian Doctrine •
Theological Foundations I Essentials of Christian Doctrine • instructor’s guide • Theological Foundations I Essentials of Christian Doctrine instructor’s guide Bethlehem College & Seminary 720 13th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55415 612.455.3420 | 612.338.6901 (fax) [email protected] | bcsmn.edu Copyright © 2016 by Bethlehem College & Seminary All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, modified, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright © 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. • Theological Foundations I Essentials of Christian Doctrine instructor’s guide Table of Contents Instructor’s Introduction Course Syllabus 1 Lesson 1 Introduction to Systematic Theology 5 Lesson 2 Scripture, the Word of God Written (1) 17 Lesson 3 Scripture, the Word of God Written (2) 35 Lesson 4 The Trinity, One God as Three Persons 55 Lesson 5 God’s Eternal Purpose and Election (1) 77 Lesson 6 God’s Eternal Purpose and Election (2) 103 Lesson 7 God’s Creation of the Universe and Man (1) 127 Lesson 8 God’s Creation of the Universe and Man (2) 147 Lesson 9 Man’s Sin and Fall from Fellowship with God 167 Lesson 10 Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God (1) 191 Lesson 11 Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Son of God (2) 211 Lesson 12 The Saving Work of Christ 235 Appendix A: Bethlehem College & Seminary Affirmation of Faith Instructor’s Introduction It is our hope and prayer that God would be pleased to use this curriculum for his glory. -
MS-603: Rabbi Marc H
MS-603: Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum Collection, 1945-1992. Series A: Writings and Addresses. 1947-1991 Box 7, Folder 8, Miscellaneous commentaries INC 18-118], Undated. 3101 Clifton Ave , Cincinnati, Ohio 45220 (513) 221·1675 phone. (513) 221·7612 fax americanjewisharchives.org nc. / ~ TITLE OF BOOK (To be Choeen) hy Marc H. Tanen~aum priest's / '. TURNING POINT8 IN JEIHSH_CHRI5TIAN_MU8LIM RELATIONS hi. xxxxxxxxxxxx~xxxx I _ FROM DIMIDIVKA TO VA!ICAN CITY My; first ex?osure to Christiane and to Chr.le,tlan theology "'~ .~Dn . at shout agp. four. In our poer, nevout home '1n .South Baltl111ore ,' it Was a family practice thqt no Sa~~ath aft~rnoon8 my fath~r would Bit with my ~rother, my sister nnd myself and would review with us stories 1n the weekly portlo~ of thp. Bl~le, mixed with rBminiacencea of the lIold countrylt. 8p.fore com1ng to k~r1ca in the early lQ20s, he had 11vena. a child with his family 1n Dlmldlvka, an . 11t;~(J'Verlsh6d J~'i'lRh villAge 1n the Ukraine. On the Snb .... ath "'"fnre Passover. wh~n anticipations ,....f" Passover an1 Easter were 1n the air of Baltimore, our fathp.r felt a compuledlon to un8urden himself with this Btory. It . happi!ned on Good Friday in D1m1d1vka. Down. the mudd~ roan from my father's v 1llaR::8, there 9tood a Ruee1an Ortho(tox ehul"c" During the Good Friday liturgy in wh10h the CD1ro1f1x1nn of Christ Was recounted, the Orthodox pr1eat apparently ~eo9me 80 enraged OVer the role of lithe Jews" as Chr1et-k11lp.rs", that , he worked his co!'gregaUonll of Russian peasant·. -
What Happened at Central Plains Mennonite Conference?
EAST UNION MENNONITE CHURCH VOLUME XXV, ISSUE 7 J U L Y 2 0 1 5 What happened at Central Plains Mennonite Conference? The 15th Annual Meeting of Central Plains Mennonite Conference (CPC) was held June 18- 21 at The Woodland Hills Church, St. Paul. MN. The theme for the weekend was “Joyfully Following Jesus: Communities Centered in Christ.” The back drop for the Delegate Work Sessions was worship time with Dr. Greg Boyd. Greg is the co-founder of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul where he serves as Senior Pastor. He is an internationally recognized theologian and author who has authored or co-authored 18 books and numerous academic articles, including his best-selling and award-winning Letters From a Skeptic and his recent books Repenting of Religion and The Myth of a Christian Nation. He talked to us about what the Kingdom should look like. He said we should look like, serve like and love like Jesus. He encouraged us to celebrate the Kingdom. The work of the conference centered on hearing about the various ministries serving the congregations of our conference. We celebrated it having been the 4th year in a row the conference has finished the financial year in the black. A New Covenant for CPC was shared about. The booklet, Being God’s Faithful Community, by Tim Detweiler was introduced. It is a 4 session study which will help us together process the Covenant and how to implement it in our church. We are encouraged to study it together as a congregation. The conference has a Conflict Management Support Team consisting of four professional persons with expertise to lead seminars for groups or congregations to improve communication skills. -
Did God Create Evil?: Gregory A. Boyd Source URL
Did God Create Evil?: Gregory A. Boyd Source URL: https://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/1872 Transcript - Short Robert Lawrence Kuhn: Greg, the problem of evil is something that anybody who wants to believe in God has to deal with. How do you deal with it? Greg Boyd: It is the number one objection to theism and I would argue that every aspect of creation, ultimately that doesn't align with, that doesn't line up with God's benevolent character, is a result of some will other than God. There are angelic beings that also have free will and just as humans can use their free will for the evil, these angelic beings can use their free will for the evil. They have say so, and some of that say so affects creation itself. Robert Lawrence Kuhn: Are you talking about Satan? Greg Boyd: Satan, the devil, demons. Yeah. (Laughter) Robert Lawrence Kuhn: To some that would sound rather anachronistic in today's world. Greg Boyd: Yeah, there are a lot of people that don't believe that there are principalities and powers and demons and those sorts of things and I realize that I am going out on a limb by bringing them up. It seems to me that an all powerful, all good God could have conceivably created a world that is free of the natural evils that we have today: malaria, AIDS, earthquakes, mud slides. And I'm not suggesting... Robert Lawrence Kuhn: Now that's the atheistic argument. Greg Boyd: I know. Robert Lawrence Kuhn: What you are saying, if I'm not wrong, is that if I told you there was no Satan and you believe there was no Satan, no angelic powers, that it was just free will, you would then have trouble defending the existence of God? Greg Boyd: I would. -
MS-603: Rabbi Marc H
MS-603: Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum Collection, 1945-1992. Series C: lnterreligious Activities. 1952-1992 Box 46, Folder 2, Stapleton, Ruth Carter, 1978. 3101 Clifton Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220 (513) 221-1875 phone, (513) 221-7812 fax americanjewisharchives.org . ~·. .. May .16,, 1978 Mrs. Ruth Carter Stapi'eton ;r.o.B. 53757 Fayetteville, North Carolina 28305 Dear .Hrs. Stapleton, ' . ' I take the llb~~Y of enclosing a copy of a newspaper story which appeared in The New York Post Qf May 15th. As you wil1 see, it reports that you have accepted to address a June 0th "crusade'' of B·,nai Yeshw;t, a group whose primary purpose is proselytizing among Jewish people, especially Jewish young people. ' -· My .purpose in writing ·to you is· to ask for- t he opportunity to mee.t wit.h. you as early'as possible prior to the June Bth date in order to discuss with. .you our concerns ·over your participation ln this pr-oselytizing conference.· ·· would you, therefore, kindly let me know by return mail or by telephone wba~ ~uld be a conv~ient time and place for us to meet? I should like to discuss with you th~ theolog!cai isoues raised by what~ · in our judement, is a .. compietely ~nadequate and defective understanding .. of .so-~alled Hebrew-Christian t'lO'Vements, such as B'nai Yeshua, of the · val~dity of God's eternal cove~ant with Israel. In particUlar, r .·"fish to discuss wl th you i.n all candor and friendship what to us has been the moral offense of thelr methods involving ~he use of sacred Jewish con- . -
Special History Study, Jimmy Carter National Historic Site and Preservation District, 29
special history study november 1991 by William Patrick O'Brien JIMMY CARTER NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE AND PRESERVATION DISTRICT • GEORGIA UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR / NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS v PREFACE vii INTRODUCTION 1 VISION STATEMENT 2 MAP - PLAINS AND VICINITY 3 PART ONE: BACKGROUND AND HISTORY BACKGROUND AND HISTORY 7 SOUTHWEST GEORGIA - REGION AND PLACE 9 SOUTHWEST GEORGIA - PEOPLE (PRE-HISTORY TO 1827) 11 SOUTHWEST GEORGIA, SUMTER COUNTY AND THE PLAINS OF DURA (1827-1865) 14 FROM THE PLAINS OF DURA TO JUST PLAIN "PLAINS" (1865-1900) 21 THE ARRIVAL AND PROGRESS OF THE CARTERS (1900-1920) 25 THE WORLD OF THE CARTERS AND JIMMY'S CHILDHOOD (1920-1941) 27 THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF PLAINS (1941-1953) 44 THE END OF THE OLD ORDER AND THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW: RETURN TO PLAINS (1953-1962) 46 ENTRY INTO POLITICS (1962-1966) 50 CARTER, PLAINS AND GEORGIA: YEARS OF CHANGE AND GROWTH - THE RISE OF THE NEW SOUTH (1966-1974) 51 PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY, PRESIDENTIAL DEFEAT (1974-1980) 55 THE CHRISTIAN PHOENIX AND THE "GLOBAL VILLAGE" - CARTER AND PLAINS (1980-1990) 58 CONCLUSION 63 PART TWO: INVENTORY AND. ASSESSMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES - JIMMY CARTER NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE AND PRESERVATION DISTRICT INTRODUCTION 69 EXTANT SURVEY ELEMENTS - JIMMY CARTER NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE AND PRESERVATION DISTRICT 71 I. Prehistory to 1827 71 II. 1827-1865 72 III. 1865-1900 74 IV. 1900-1920 78 V. 1920-1941 94 VI. 1941-1953 100 iii VII. 1953-1962 102 VIII. 1962-1966 106 IX. 1966-1974 106 X. 1974-1980 108 XI. 1980-1990 109 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL SURVEY ELEMENTS PLAINS, GEORGIA . -
Did God Create Evil?: Gregory A
Did God Create Evil?: Gregory A. Boyd Source URL: https://www.closertotruth.com/interviews/1872 Transcript - Long Robert Lawrence Kuhn: Greg, the problem of evil is something that anybody who wants to believe in God has to deal with. How do you deal with it? Greg Boyd: It is the, I think, number one objection to theism. When I was an atheist, and I was for some time before I became a believer, that was the number one objection: how could a world created by an all good, all powerful God be so incredibly screwed up? As I thought through it, the core of my answer to this question has to do with free will, and that God created agents that have their own, what I call say so, we have say in what happens, and it's in the very nature of free will that we can choose good or choose evil. And we sometimes choose evil. And I would argue that all of, every aspect of creation, ultimately that doesn't align with, that doesn't line up with God's benevolent character is a result of some will other than God. Robert Lawrence Kuhn: So that sounds slightly different than the traditional free will defense of evil, because you're saying that every evil, because normally you divide between natural evil and moral evil. Greg Boyd: Right. Robert Lawrence Kuhn: How do you see natural evil and moral evil? Greg Boyd: Well, yeah, that's a classic distinction that's often made; there's natural evil and then there is moral evil, and moral evil is the evil that results from free will.