Pain Issues is a book of 1940 on CS Lewis's crimes issue, where Lewis argues that human pain, sickness, and hell are not enough grounds to refuse to believe in good God and strong.
Lewis summarizes the problem of evil like this: "If God is good, He will make His creatures fully happy, and if He is omnipotent He will be able to do what he wants But the beings are unhappy So God has no good, or strength, or both. "His partial theory deals with human suffering and sinfulness, animal suffering, and the problem of hell, and seeks to reconcile it with Christian belief in a just, loving, omnipotent God.
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Summary
Lewis does not claim to offer a complete "solution" to the problem of crime. In fact, he argues that we should not expect a full understanding of why God allows evil. As a human being, he notes, we can not possibly see the "big picture" that God does. As finite creatures, temporarily, we can not really understand how "the suffering of the present age can not be compared with the glory to be revealed in us" (Rom. 8:18).
However, Lewis points out that the problem goes deeper: "If God is wiser than we are, His judgment must be different from us in many ways, and not only good and evil.What to us may not be good in His sight. and what for us evil may not be evil ". That does not mean that what we think is good can be completely different from what God deems good. It will make it empty to talk about God as "good" and it will take all the moral reasons to love and obey Him. However, like Job, we must humbly acknowledge the limits of human wisdom and do not fully understand why God allows suffering and evil. With that important reminder, Lewis goes on to suggest several reasons why a good and powerful God might allow evil. Lewis also addresses issues in the Pain Problems of the Fall, of original sin, of Hell, of animal pain, and of heaven.
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Relation to other works
Lewis's philosophical approach in the Problem of Pain has some similarities with his more personal, more personal approach to the problem of evil in Observed Grief. , a reflection on his own experience. sadness and sadness after the death of his wife.
See also
- Miracles by C.S. Lewis
- Observed DAM (book) by C.S. Lewis
- The crime problem
- The Great Controversy , written by Seventh Day Adventist Ellen G. White discussing the same subject.
References
Further reading
- John Beversluis, C. S. Lewis and Searching for Rational Religion , rev. ed. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007. (Chapter 9 contains a detailed, critical examination of Lewis's view of the crime.)
- Walter Hooper, C. S. Lewis: Companion and Guide . New York: HarperCollins, 1996: 293-302.
- Michael L. Peterson, "CS Lewis on the Necessity of Evil," in David Baggett, Gary R. Habermas, and Jerry L. Walls, eds., CS Lewis as Philosopher: Truth, Kindness and Beauty >. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2008: 175-92.
- Arend Smilde, "Something Very Real: How C. S. Lewis solved the" intellectual problem raised by suffering "", www.lewisiana.nl/christianthinker
- Michael Ward, "On Suffering," in Robert MacSwain and Michael Ward, eds., The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010: 2013-210.
- Erik J. Wielenberg, God and Reach the Reason . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
External links
- Pain Problem in Faded Page (Canada)
- The Problem of Pain in Catholic Education
- Quotes & amp; Allusions in The Problem of Pain
- Pain Problems. (PDF, Canadian public domain text)
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