Carson: reflecting on evil and suffering
You don’t need me to remind you that our world, wonderful and beautiful as it is, is shot through with suffering and evil.
In a recent lecture, Don Carson spoke of six ‘pillars’ of the Christian worldview that will provide bulwarks as we seek to face up to this reality.
1. Insights from the beginning of the Bible’s storyline
God created a world of ‘breathtaking beauty and unfathomable goodness’. But the perfection was short-lived. We now find ourselves, from Genesis 3 onwards, in a world marked by ‘sin, suffering, death and decay’.…