This month our congregation is walking through C.S. Lewis' book, "The Problem of Pain." The premise of the book is stated in the beginning, It's unsettling, but he writes, "pain would be no problem unless, side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteous and loving.”
There it is. If we have no room for a good and righteous God... then the question of theodicy is not an issue. Without God, life (including the beginning of life) is random, unforgiving and a result of luck or fate or whatever your metaphysical make-up is constructed of.
However, for those who believe (or want to believe) in a good and loving God in spite of the darkness this world so often throws at us, this resource is a good weapon to have in your arsenal.
As with anything worth having, there are some hard questions to ask. Who is to be blamed for sin? How did we become a horror to God and to our neighbor? Is it ok, in an evil age to be evil? I will write more about this later.
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