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Despite identifying as a Christian for most of my life, there are a few questions about faith, God and Christianity that I don’t have good answers for. As a kid and young adult, “God is bigger than us so we can’t always understand him” was an adequate response. For the skeptic in me, that is weak and insufficient.
I can manage with the argument of not being able to prove God exists. I’ve come to terms with the whole “Jesus-is-the-only-way” thing (I’ve written about that before here and here). But this is still troubling, and it isn’t a new question. Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (not David Hume, who I originally attributed this to) summed up the question very well with:
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?
I can’t answer that well. Ugh.
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