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https://us15.campaign-archive.com/?u=012a44d6e7986cf7f82de120f&id=8cdb3f2029\n The Concrete Problem of Evil Historian Philip Friedman provides the following eyewitness account of what happened to a young Jewish girl living in the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi occupation. Zosia was a little girl . . . the daughter of a physician. During an \u201caction\u201d one of the Germans became aware of her beautiful diamond- like dark eyes. \u201cI could make two rings out of them,\u201d he said, \u201cone for myself and one for my wife.\u201d His colleague is holding the girl. \u201cLet\u2019s see whether they are really so beautiful. And better yet, let\u2019s examine them in our hands.\u201d Among the buddies exuberant gaiety breaks out. One of the wittiest proposes to take the eyes out. A shrill screaming and the noisy laughter of the soldier-pack. The screaming penetrates our brains, pierces our heart, the laughter hurts like the edge of a knife plunged into our body. The screaming and the laughter are growing, mingling and soaring to heaven. O God, whom will You hear first? What happens next is that the fainting child is lying on the floor. Instead of eyes two bloody wounds are staring. The mother, driven mad, is held by the women. This time they left Zosia to her mother. . . . At one of the next \u201cactions,\u201d little Zosia was taken away. It was, of course, necessary to annihilate the blind child.2 While philosophers argue endlessly about how precisely to define \u201cevil\u201d in abstract terms, none of us has difficulty recognizing this concrete nightmare as an example of it. At the very least, evil consists of the fact that for far too many people\u2014as for Zosia and her mother, along with six million other Jews during the Holocaust\u2014life becomes a horrifying nightmare from which they cannot awake, a nightmare as full of pain as it is devoid of meaning. Radical evil of this sort cannot be captured in abstract definitions. Indeed, \u201cabstractions . . . distract us from that immediate reality [of evil] and reduce evil to a statistic,\u201d as Jeffery Burton Russell suggests. In this worldview, the only \u201creason\u201d why Zosia is tortured is because free beings, human and angelic, can will such atrocities. While the sovereign God can and will strive to bring some good out of the horrifying demonic event (Rom 8:28), the evil event itself exists only because free beings who are against God have willed it. The \u201cultimate reason\u201d for this ghoulish torment lies there. If the words \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cloving\u201d mean anything as applied to God, if Scripture\u2019s testimony regarding the perfect character of God and the antidemonic ministry of Jesus mean anything, and if God\u2019s power is to be construed as supremely admirable, as truly transcendent, not simply as coercive after the impoverished image of fallen human 108 From THE LIVE RAGGED EDGE RADIO BROADCAST/SHATTER LIVE TV WEBINAR RUSS DIZDAR \xa9 ideals of power, then we simply cannot suppose that it is ultimately God himself who is secretly willing Zosia\u2019s nightmare for some supposed \u201chigher\u201d reason. Coping with evil. Where does all this leave us in terms of our coping with the atrocities of our world? Whatever else may be said about the classicalphilosophical blueprint model of God\u2019s providence, it does provide the believer with a certain kind of security that the warfare worldview seems to lack\u2014so long as one steers clear of concrete atrocities. A certain peace comes, for many at least, in resigning oneself to whatever (one believes) the hand of God might bring to one. Herein lies the appeal of the sort of traditional hymns spoken of in chapter one. If, however, we can no longer find solace in the conviction that a mysterious providential plan governs every event in world history, in what can our hearts find hope? If Zosia\u2019s torment is truly as gratuitous and barbaric as it appears, must we not despair? It is, I think, undeniable that the warfare worldview on one level depicts a scarier world than the providential blueprint worldview, for the simple reason that opening one\u2019s eyes to the reality of war is indeed scary. At the same time, this prospect strikes some of us as less scary than the prospect of living in an actual spiritual war but being ignorant of this fact. It certainly seems less scary than living in a cosmos that is being coercively run by a supreme being who secretly wills the torture of little girls \u2014\u201cfor his glory.\u201d Yet even if we were to concede that the genuine contingency and real battles of the warfare worldview present a world that is scarier than the divine blueprint worldview, it would not follow that this worldview is less hopeful than the blueprint model. Precisely the opposite is the case, I would argue. The warfare worldview of the New Testament offers more hope, precisely because it unabashedly acknowledges the dismal and demonic state of the world in its present war-torn condition. Boyd, Gregory A.. God at War (pp. 291-292). InterVarsity Press. Kindle Edition. 1. WHY DID CAIN KILL ABLE? \u2022 The corruption within \u2022 The \u2018sin code\u2019 has murder in it \u2022 It\u2019s the nature of the fallen 2. THE CORRUPTION WITHIN \u2022 Looking at Romans 1:18 to \u2022 A devolution \u2022 A driving force \u2022 A platform for the darkside Eph. 2 3. THE CORRUTOR WITHOUT \u2022 Independent evil \u2022 Coordinated evil \u2022 It has God as its focused enemy \u2022 It has humankind as its 109 From THE LIVE RAGGED EDGE RADIO BROADCAST/SHATTER LIVE TV WEBINAR RUSS DIZDAR \xa9 a. Use you b. Abuse you c. Kill you 4. THE HORROR ON THE FIELD OF HUMAN HISTORY \u2022 History speaks \u2022 Cain \u2022 Serial murder \u2022 Gangs \u2022 Cults \u2022 Nations What\u2019s to come Matthew 24\u2026. Unprecedented SONG \u20263And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: \u201cBehold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God. 4\u2018 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,\u2019 and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.\u201d 5And the One seated on the throne said, \u201cBehold, I make all things new.\u201d Then He said, \u201cWrite this down, for these words are faithful and true.\u201d\u2026 Revelation 21 \n\nhttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=christian+song+on+against+evil&iar=videos&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQa7qPqIjYSY