Both confusions (the skeptic’s and the Christian’s) are based on a misunderstanding. As we will see, evil is not the problem for Christianity that people think it is because it is not foreign to the Story. It is central to it. It fits right in. In a certain sense, the entire Story is precisely about how the world went bad and how it gets fixed. There is another misunderstanding I want to point out, something that seems never to occur to anyone regarding this first obstacle. First, note that the obstacle
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