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Service Request. 4/2 Left inside tire almost needs replacement. Almost replaced left inside tire. Service Request. 9/27 Something loose in cockpit. Something tightened in cockpit. Service Request. 8/16 Dead bugs on windshield. Live bugs on backorder. Service Request.
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Service Request 4/2 Left inside tire almost needs replacement Almost replaced left inside tire.
Service Request 9/27 Something loose in cockpit. Something tightened in cockpit.
Service Request 8/16 Dead bugs on windshield. Live bugs on backorder.
Service Request 4/12 Evidence of leak on right landing gear. Evidence removed.
Service Request 5/8 Aircraft handles funny. Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right and be serious.
Service Request 6/30 Number 3 engine missing. Number 3 engine found on right wing after brief search.
Service Request 2/21 Mouse in cockpit. Cat installed.
GOD? . . . and the Problem of Evil
Dear God, Hope you got the letter, and I pray you can make it better down here. I don’t mean a big reduction in the price of beer. But all the people you made in your image - see them starving on their feet? ‘Cause they don’t get enough to eat from God. I can’t believe in you
Dear God, sorry to disturb you but . . . I feel that I should be heard loud and clear. We all need a big reduction in amount of tears. All the people you made in your image see them fighting in the street? ‘Cause they can’t make opinions meet about God. I can’t believe in you
Did you make disease and the diamond blue? Did you make mankind after we made you? And the devil, too! Dear God, Don’t know if you’ve noticed but Your name is on a lot of quotes in this book, and us crazy humans wrote it you should take a look.
And all the people you made in your image still believing that junk is true. Well, I know it ain’t and so do you, Dear God. I can’t believe in . . . I don’t believe in . . .
I won’t believe in heaven and hell, no saints, no sinners, no devil as well. No pearly gates, no thorny crowns, you’re always letting us humans down. The wars you bring, the babes you drown. Those lost at sea and never found.
And it’s the same the whole world round. The hurt I see helps to compound the Father, Son and Holy Ghost is just somebody’s unholy hoax. And if you’re up there you’d perceive that my heart’s here on my sleeve. If there’s one thing I don’t believe in
It’s you, Dear God “Dear God” Sarah McLachlan
GOOD EVIL
GOOD EVIL
Naturalism the world as we see it
Naturalism Evil – a word we use to describe something that causes pain or trouble
TRANSCENDENTALISM the world as we want it
TRANSCENDENTALISM Evil - part of the impermanence of the material world.
Theism the world from God's Hand
Theism Evil - anything that is contrary to the character and will of God
God and Evil 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning-the sixth day. Genesis 1 13When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; James 1 44 I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Leviticus 11
If God exists, God is All-good and All-powerful. If God is All-good, then He would want to destroy evil. If God is All-powerful , then He could destroy evil. BUT Evil has not been destroyed. Therefore, there is no All-good, All-powerful God.
If God exists, God is All-good and All-powerful. If God is All-good, then He would want to destroy evil. If God is All-powerful , then He could destroy evil. yet BUT Evil has not been destroyed. Therefore, there is no All-good, All-powerful God.
Our Destiny 18I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8