Tuesday, Feb.13 ~ Problem of Pain, Ch.2

Discuss Chapter 1


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1.  What do you think of Lewis's summary of the problem of pain at the beginning of chapter two?  Might factors other than God's goodness and power play a part in the human experience of pain?

 2.  Scripture teaches and Christianity holds that God is omnipotent (Jeremiah 32:17, Matthew 19:26, Mark 14:36, and Luke 1:37).  Nevertheless, God cannot do what is intrinsically impossible.  Why is this an important clarification?

 3.  Why is it necessary for matter to have a fixed nature?

 4.  What would happen if God intervened every time someone abused his free will?

 5.  Do you agree with Lewis's statement:  "Try to exclude the possibility of suffering . . . and you find that you have excluded life itself"?  Why or why not?

 6.  How does God's freedom differ from human freedom?
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