A God Worth Our Salt

The argument from evil only succeeds in undermining the reality of a [g]od unworthy of worship, a god for whom indifference is the name of the game. But we all unequivocally reject this god. The only meaningful question is not which god cannot stand in the face of evil, but which God can.

If there is a God worth our salt, it is a God who does not lurk in the shadows, but proves his own existence by willingly entering into the project of suffering alongside us and for us, a God who shares in our predicament, not merely as an expression of solidarity, but as the means by which evil itself will in the end be righted. Against this God, the problem of evil fails.