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7 - Moral Experience Justified by God

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Paul Moser
Paul Moser
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Loyola University Chicago
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Human moral experience features bad as well as good. The bad is sometimes very bad, with no accompanying explanation of its aim. How, according to the best biblical theodicy, does God justify God’s allowing severe suffering and evil among humans? According to this chapter, the biblical God is Lord of the future as well as the present and uses the future to fulfill divine promises to humans. The future fulfillment, coupled with present divine proximity to humans, includes restoring and saving them in full righteousness, given their losses from extreme suffering and evil.

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God in Moral Experience
Values and Duties Personified
 , pp. 176 - 206
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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