Slain Giant: The Problem of Evil
This entry records the Haimesian resolution that reconciles divine goodness with the presence of suffering.
TL;DR
Moral growth, courageous love, and authentic freedom require a world with real stakes; evil is permitted, not authored, within a benevolent teleology.
Moral growth, courageous love, and authentic freedom require a world with real stakes; evil is permitted, not authored, within a benevolent teleology.
Cause of Death
Drawing on the Haimesian reading of Christ’s “No one is good but God alone,” the resolution shows that removing all evil would annihilate creaturely freedom and relational virtue. The system frames reality as a training ground for courageous love.
Key Insight
Justice is ultimately restorative via Resurrection Feasibility: wrongs are answerable in a cosmos capable of re-creation.
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