![]() ![]() "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell." Some general quotes from The Problem of Pain It's about 2 pages long and I remember it as some of his more eloquent writing. P 10 An eloquent reply to the question "Why do you not believe in God?" composed to reflect his thoughts "not many years ago when I was an atheist". So this is really cold water thrown on science apologetics. I spend a good bit of time discussing the fact that what we see written in nature points to the Creator. It is a remarkable fact that no canonical writer has ever used Nature to prove God" Pascal, Pensees IV, 242, 243 This quote from Pascal, a renowned scientist himself, was a bit of a shock to me. this only gives their readers grounds for thinking that the proofs of our religion are very weak. In a treatise addressed to infidels they begin with a chapter proving the existence of God from the works of Nature. P 10 "I wonder at the hardihood with which such persons undertake to talk about God. The book addresses an important aspect of theodicy, an attempt by one Christian layman to reconcile orthodox Christian belief in a just, loving and omnipotent God with pain and suffering." from Wiki review "He seeks to provide an intellectual Christian response to questions about suffering. Lewis Touchstone Edition 1996 of the 1940 book ![]() The Problem of Pain The Problem of Pain C. ![]()
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