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The question of God’s relationship to evil is a long-running one in the history of Christianity, and the term often deployed for this task has been theodicy. The way theodicy has historically been pursued, however, has been problematic on a number of counts. Most significantly, these efforts have generally been insufficiently theological. This work hopes to subvert and reconfigure the theodical...

one is true and the other a lie; one leads to life and the other to death. The primordial humans from the Bible’s witness chose to believe the serpent, thereby marking a lack of trust on behalf of Adam and Eve with relation to God. According to their actions, God is deemed to be less trustworthy than that which is not-God. Furthermore, Adam and Eve pursue a good (“to be like God”) in a wrong way (according to the lie of the serpent), thereby corrupting both the possibilities from that course of action
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