Glenn Lucke is posting a letter that he wrote in response to 9/11.
An Introduction
In the days immediately after 9/11, a friend in her mid-thirties wrote me an email wrestling with the question of how could God allow such evil. Elizabeth had worked for many years in the financial district of New York City and had relocated only a few years before the attacks. Thus, the senseless loss of life of friends and acquaintances was fresh, raw and scarcely comprehensible to her. Her first child, Susannah, had been born a year before, which provided an additional lens for reflecting upon the 9/11 attacks. This letter was written September 19, 2001, and different parts will be posted leading up to the 10-year Anniversary of 9/11.
Dear Elizabeth,
At long last I’m able to devote a lengthy period to sitting down and writing a response. I’ve thought of this issue daily, many times a day, even before you emailed last week. I’ve realized that in spite of my intellectual apprehension that I’m not “the Defender of God,” I have emotionally felt that I had to be just that for you. That has daunted me. But with fresh realization that we’re having an on-going dialogue about a very important question, that your faith is not in my hands, I feel slightly less daunted. And so I begin.
How does one account for the presence of evil in the world? How can an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent God allow suffering? . . .
Read more here. Notice that this is an ongoing series that you can follow.
