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victoryword
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| Posted 4/16/2003 5:30 AM (GMT -6) |   | Before I found out about Open Theism, I read two classic books on the problem of evil and God's sovereignty. The first one was The Will of God by Leslie D. Weatherhead. Weatherhead wrote against the classical teaching that God is the one who inflicts sickness, disease and death on people for some mysterious sovereign purpose.
Another book I read was titled Does God Send Trouble? By
Charles Cuthbert Hall. Both of these are old books (Hall's book was written in the late 1800s and Weatherhead's was written somwhere around 1940). Here is a passage from Hall's book:
quote:
“Out of a desire, doubtless, to proclaim the sovereignty of God over His creatures, and to recognize after some fashion His hand in all the events of life, a fearful perversion of God’s true relation to human suffering, loss, sickness, and death has spread like an untimely frost over the minds of men, whereby all of these evils that so abound in our time are described as dealings of God’s will with the children of men.
... If I believed that God spreads scarlet fever among little children; if I believed that God sweeps off into their graves so many young wives and mothers; if I believed that God produces idiots, or drives people mad, or makes men murder and steal and blast their families, I would hate Him as other men hate Him ... But I believe none of this.”
Has anyone else read these two books? What do you think of them? Do you think that the thoughts conveyed within these writings are consistent with the Open View of evil and God's sovereignty?
If your beliefs cannot be supported by Scripture, they ain't worth supporting
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