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  1. Norman L. Geisler _ If God, Why Evil?: A New Way

    Take an illustration from science. Evolutionists once claimed there were some one hundred eighty vestigial organs {with no known function} left over from our animal ancestry. Over the last century or so, this list has shrunk to six! And now there are known functions even for these. More recently some scientists were speaking of "junk genes," but now there are good reasons for believing they have a special function – playing, for example, a key role in controlling gene expression {see Stephen Meyer, Signature in the Cell, 406–407}. Further, even Nature magazine {2009} refers to them as "the junk that makes us human" as they account for the crucial differences among species. In fact, this is all evidence of intelligent design. Finally, to assume they are junk is to hinder scientific research.
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  2. Norman L. Geisler _ If God, Why Evil?: A New Way

    Simply put, that we don't know a good purpose for some evil does not mean there is no good purpose for it. There are many things we don't know. And there are many things we once did not know but now do know. So it should be expected that in the future we will discover good purposes for things for which we do not now know a good purpose.
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  3. Norman L. Geisler _ If God, Why Evil?: A New Way

    All moral choices are free choices. No one can be praised or blamed for an act in which they had no free choice. If they were forced to do it, then they can't get either credit or blame. Hence if God destroyed all freedom, He would be destroying all possibility to love, praise, and worship Him – to say nothing of destroying all possibility of our enjoying His or other people's love, praise, and sacrifice on our behalf.
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  4. Norman L. Geisler _ If God, Why Evil?: A New Way

    this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object, in other words by God himself. {Pensees, #148}
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  5. Norman L. Geisler _ If God, Why Evil?: A New Way

    Bad things will happen to good people, but a good God has for us a good end, for these bad things will bring about good results: "Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all" {2 Corinthians 4:17}.
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  6. Norman L. Geisler _ If God, Why Evil?: A New Way

    There are some things even God cannot do. He cannot force anyone to freely accept Him. Forced freedom is a contradiction in terms. This is why Jesus said, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. {Matthew 23:37} So the only way God could literally destroy all evil is to destroy all freedom.
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  7. Norman L. Geisler _ If God, Why Evil?: A New Way

    If for no other reason, God sometimes allows us to suffer pain so that we can comfort others suffering in a like situation.
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  8. Norman L. Geisler _ If God, Why Evil?: A New Way

    God overrules the evil intent of humans to accomplish His ultimate good.
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  9. Norman L. Geisler _ If God, Why Evil?: A New Way

    The highest freedom is the freedom from evil, not the freedom of doing evil.
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