Quote of the week

Barefoot in the wilderness
in search of understanding

Sven has a good quote up on his site at the moment (check the top of his right-hand sidebar):

Antitheistic writers almost invariably assume a conception of the divine purpose which is contrary to the Christian conception. They assume that the purpose of a loving God must be to create a hedonistic paradise; and therefore the extent that the world is other than this, it proves to them that God is either not loving enough nor powerful enough to create such a world. They think of God’s relation to the earth on the model of a human being building a cage for a pet animal to live in…Those who use the problem of evil as an argument against belief in God almost invariably think of God in this kind of way.
John Hick

Article posted at 10:04pm on 15 January 2006
Category: Faith, Struggling