What is the Purpose of Evil?
A.E. Knock wrote, “We do not realize that evil is a gift from God, designed to bring us down to our proper place and raise God up to the position his deity demands in the glorious consummation, when he will be ‘all in all.’ We need evil for what we are and shall be, not merely for any wrong that we have done. Evil is not essentially a penalty, but a preparation. It is humbling and revealing and necessary for the appreciation of good and of GodTrial, probing, experiment is a thing God does not need for himself, since he knows all. But his creatures need it, for they are here to learn, like Job, not only what is in themselves, but also what is in God” Creation or Evolution? Christian intractability in the area of evolution has produced an honest class of atheistic scientists from which the human community still suffers. Not all scientists are atheistic, of course. Many see no conflict with evolutionary science and the Bible’s allegorical explanations of creation. The issue doesn’t need t
