I’ve sometimes wondered, if my explanation for why a good god would allow evil in the world is sound, why was it never revealed before? The problem of evil has been a thorn in the side of faith for all these millennia, even if it has never been a determinant on a large scale. Few believers were willing to reject their religion or the faith of their respective worlds and upbringings over an intellectual conundrum that, though impenetrable, seemed to lack common sense, even if no one could ever quite explain how. The world is vast. People are complex. Bad things happen. There never seemed to be a compelling reason to reconcile that incontrovertible reality with people’s belief in a good, omnipotent god.
My explanation was only comprehensible after millennia of human history. It assumes the reader has level of nuanced and sophisticated knowledge that we could only get from experience, an experience that can draw upon a global outlook and thousands of generations of recorded history.
Think of Job inquiring of human suffering during his time. Could God possibly have explained to Job the endeavor of life as the foundational and binding element for all of human life in a way that he had any chance of understanding?
In time and physics-bound existence, God’s vision and will must sometimes grow to develop and not just appear, especially if it is to have any meaning to people.
In the introduction of my ebook, I write that it takes thousands of years of human experience to gain an inkling of God’s wisdom. We can’t always know everything when want. For some points, we’re simply not able to know.