excruciating pain, debilitating disease, torture, and death can occur. Indeed, how can drunkenness, hatred, and deadly germs exist? Does God “reveal” answers to these questions, or are they but “secrets” that “belong” exclusively to God? To say that all evil is the result of the fall of Adam is perfectly true—but piteously inadequate. That response merely moves the question back a step: how could there be a fall? To suggest that Satan is the cause of the fall, again, is true, but only pushes the
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