ABSTRACT
Our greatest difficulty is this: the God of the Bible upbraids our primogenitors in the Garden of Eden, gives orders to Noah, makes a covenant with Abraham, and speaks to Moses. While theological complexities may fade away in the face of the Christ of the Gospels, the problem of God-the-Creator cannot be dismissed. Suffering has always existed, but it seems only to have become such an obvious and compelling argument against God. It is hard to say whether this is because there is more of it now than there was before. God, the provider of meaning, must be a person, but He is also an Absolute: again, is the unfathomable mystery, the unsolvable puzzle. But it is not the only one: He must also be the source and provider of Good.
