cannot do so—although he does do his best. This is the answer of process theology24 and also of Harold S. Kushner’s popular book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People.25 This solution denies the historic Christian doctrines of divine omnipotence, omniscience, and sovereignty, while seeking to preserve God’s attribute of goodness. Yet Scripture itself not only fails to teach this solution, but firmly contradicts it. God’s omniscience (Ps. 139; Isa. 46:10; Heb. 4:11–13; 1 John 3:20), omnipotence
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