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God Reforms Hearts: Rethinking Free Will and the Problem of Evil is unavailable, but you can change that!

Must we be free to truly love? Evil is a problem for all Christians. When responding to objections that both evil and God can exist, many resort to a “free will defense,” where God is not the creator of evil but of human freedom, by which evil is possible. This response is so pervasive that it is just as often assumed as it is defended. But is this answer biblically and philosophically...

Elsewhere, Jesus confronts concrete evil by expressing a deep internal and action-motivating “compassion” (σπλαγχνίζομαι). Jesus expresses this compassion at people’s despair and moral lostness (Matt 9:36; cf. Mark 6:34), sickness (Matt 14:14; cf. Mark 1:40–41), hunger (Matt 15:32; cf. Mark 8:2), blindness (Matt 20:34), and death (Luke 7:13). The New Testament envisions this compassion as a crucial step toward progress against concrete evils.21 Therefore, a theodicy in which “things beyond our will
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