{"id":254,"date":"2004-07-07T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2004\/07\/07\/the-problem-of-evil\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T19:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T19:12:39","slug":"the-problem-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2004\/07\/07\/the-problem-of-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem of Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwillard.org\/\">Dallas Willard<\/a> is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Dallas is a Christian philosopher and thinker. He has written a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwillard.org\/articles\/default.asp\">articles<\/a> and books including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060693339\/dougstheologypag\/\">The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060694424\/dougstheologypag\/\">The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is an article Dallas wrote on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwillard.org\/articles\/artview.asp?artid=30\">God and the Problem of Evil<\/a>. One quote at the end of the article stands out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Because I make my living as a university professor and philosopher I am frequently asked, in so many words, &#8220;Why do you follow Jesus Christ?&#8221; My answer is always the same: &#8220;Who else did you have in mind?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed. Without Christ, what else do we have?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Willard is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Dallas is a Christian philosopher and thinker. He has written a lot of articles and books including The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God and The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives. Here is an article Dallas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}