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Why, then?


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This is the question, of course. There are many ways of expressing the difficulty and many ways of formulating an answer. In Genesis there is a repetition each time God creates which says that God saw it as good. That's the best I can do. Orthodox Christian theism does not believe that God's sovereignty precludes man's responsibiity. God's foreknowledge doesn't relieve man of guilt. But there is no complete answer that I've found. I posted sometime ago what I think may be the case concerning man's will, tied to the fact that we are created in His image, which would include a relative power, analogous to God's, of creativity. In a small way we can do what God does in a big way - bring something new into the universe. And without diminishing God's soverignty. But that is speculation. I can only go on what the Bible says: The creation is good, God is sovereign, man is responsible.

If God isn't the answer to the question why then there is no answer. There isn't even a question.