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What about Evil? A Defense of God’s Sovereign Glory is unavailable, but you can change that!

Reconciling the existence of God and evil is a conundrum in Christian theology, and a philosophical approach—rather than a theological one—dominates. Turning to the Bible’s grand storyline, Scott Christensen examines how sin, evil, corruption, and death fit into the broad outlines of redemptive history. He argues that God’s ultimate end in creation is to magnify his glory to his image-bearers,...

joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds [i.e., first-order evils], for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness [i.e., second-order good]. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing” (James 1:2–4). Such a good could be achieved by God in no other way. Some people intend their actions for nefarious purposes, and this is all that we might see. But God intends those same actions for a greater good (Gen. 50:20),
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