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Theodicy
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Why I stopped saying ‘God has a plan’ at funerals
A lay preacher in Harare on theodicy at the graveside: what Job's friends got wrong, what Ivan Karamazov got right, and what a preacher can honestly say.
Written by Tendai Moyo1 reply -
Why I stopped saying ‘God has a plan’ at funerals
A lay preacher in Harare on theodicy at the graveside: what Job's friends got wrong, what Ivan Karamazov got right, and what a preacher can honestly say.
Written by Tendai Moyo1 reply -
The Brahma Sūtra clears God of cruelty by making saṃsāra beginningless. Isn’t that too easy?
I have been reading Śaṅkara for forty years, and this passage still bothers me. Brahma Sūtra 2.1.34 raises the objection that if God creates the world, God is guilty of partiality and cruelty, since some beings are born happy and others miserable.…
Started by Arjun Iyer1 reply