God and Evil: The Case for God in a World Filled with Pain (Biblia.com)

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The question of evil--its origins, its justification, its solution--has plagued humankind from the beginning. Every generation raises the question and struggles with the responses it is given. Questions about the nature of evil and how it is reconciled with the truth claims of Christianity are unavoidable; we need to be prepared to respond to such questions with great clarity and good faith. God...

to affirm an appropriate attitude toward or belief in God. John Feinberg explains that this problem arises “from a particular instance of suffering and evil that someone is actually experiencing.”2 As such, the religious problem of evil refers to the way instances of evil cause emotional difficulty for belief in God, as opposed to some kind of formal argument from evil. By contrast, however, the logical problem of evil centers on an alleged inconsistency between the idea of God’s existence and the

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