(urth) Silk Takes A Stab At The 'Problem Of Evil'

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes danldo at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 17:12:41 PDT 2011


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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