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Homeschooling and Public Education

Check out this great post on homeschooling and public education from Kevin. Make sure you see the shocking quote from John Dewey.

The Problem of Evil

An objection that's often raised against Christianity is "the problem of evil", which states that the existence of evil contradicts the idea of a God who good as well as all-powerful. The argument goes that because evil exists, either God is not good for allowing evil, or God is not all-powerful because he's not powerful enough to irradicate it.

I really like this argument, because it turns out that it backfires on the atheist. The problem of evil is not logically a problem for the Christian, but is one for the atheist. In short, the existence of "evil" requires objective moral standards which are only provided on the Christian worldview. Therefore, the atheist who brings this up as an objection against Christianity must first "borrow" from the Christian worldview in order to then level the objection at it.

Greg Bahnsen wrote some short papers on this that are available for free online. See, Greg Bahnsen: The Problem of Evil.

(Note, for whatever reason the article prints with page-breaks all over the place... if you want to print it, you may want to paste it into a word-processor and fix it up. Sorry about that... there's nothing I can do. That article was originally saved from a Word document... I blame Word)

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