The problem of goodness
Tim Maurice
The Problem of Evil, the theological conundrum of why a loving God allows suffering, has been disputed for millennia. No doubt the debate will continue until the crack of doom, when all arguments will cease. The interest of this booklet is not with this question at all. Our enquiry is concerned with something more subtle in its difficulty: the moral goodness we ascribe to our own perceptions. Jesus put it this way:‘But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!’ Matt 6:23. All understanding begins at the point of knowing this: that God alone is light and that our natural tendency, whether we trust in Christ or not, is to perceive reality, ourselves and even God, according to another kind of light. Our failure to perceive this leads us into the greatest darkness of all.
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