![]() We speak of sin as disobedience, lawlessness, immorality, unethical behavior, and the like. Sin is characteristically defined in negative terms. ![]() We define sin, for example, as any want of conformity to, or transgression of, the law of God. ![]() The point of such definitions is to define evil in terms of a lack of, or negation of, the good. Historically, evil has been defined in terms of privation (privatio) and negation (negatio), especially in the works of Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas. The philosophical bumps into the existential. The philosophical problems have generated an abundance of reflection and discussion, some of which will be reiterated in this issue, but in the final analysis, the problem is one that quickly moves from the abstract level into the realm of human experience. ![]() For centuries people have wrestled with the conundrum, how a good and loving God could allow evil and pain to be so prevalent in His creation. The problem of evil has been defined as the Achilles’ heel of the Christian faith. ![]()
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