Silk Takes A Stab At The 'Problem Of Evil'

David Stockhoff · 13 Apr 2011, 03:28 · from 2011-April.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:28:09 -0400
Subject: (urth) Silk Takes A Stab At The 'Problem Of Evil'
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Much like consenting to be governed by a king.

On 4/12/2011 8:12 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> Elsewhere in tBotLS, Silk has an insight that strikes me heavily. I
> can't recall where it is, but it occurs to him that the purpose of
> free will is to give us the grace of consenting to what is going to
> happen anyway.
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Lane Haygood<lhaygood at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Silk is arguing that the Outsider is not an occasionalist God. He doesn't
>> control everything, and permits Evil (as a concept and metaphysical whole)
>> because in the end Evil serves his great Purpose (which Man might not know).
>> Little evils (like tsunami that kill thousands) are because the Outsider
>> does not intervene or even control all events - God does not authorize every
>> event as if he is a foreman at a construction site - but rather lets things
>> flow organically.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> On Apr 12, 2011, at 6:39 PM, Daniel Petersen
>> <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> Any philosophy of religion or theology students out there?  Is Silk arguing
>> something of a 'freewill' theodicy here that still trades on a strong view
>> of divine sovereignty?
>> http://silkandhornheresy.blogspot.com/2011/04/silk-takes-stab-at-problem-of-evil.html
>> -DOJP
>>
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