Chapter 1
The Attributes of the Creator
Before any question about evil can be asked honestly, the character of the One who creates has to be described without flattery.
Psalm 19:1
An apologetic essay on the problem of good and evil
Chapters
The fourteen chapters of the essay, published in full as individual articles.
Chapter 2
The God Who Needs Nothing
Creation adds nothing to God. That single claim reshapes every motive we might attribute to Him.
Acts 17:24-25
Chapter 3
Free Will
Love that cannot be refused is not love. Freedom is the price of a relationship that means anything at all.
Deuteronomy 30:19
Chapter 4
Why Not Create Only the Good?
The most common objection deserves the most patient answer: foreknowledge is not the same as pre-selection.
Matthew 13:29-30
Chapter 5
Evil in Potential
Evil is not a created substance. It is an absence that becomes visible only where light already stands.
1 John 1:5
Chapter 6
Lucifer: From Potential to Act
One will, standing in full light, preferred itself. From that moment the universe carried an open question.
Isaiah 14:13-14
Chapter 7
The Duality Revealed
In the garden, an abstract question is given a concrete form: a tree, a word, and a choice.
Genesis 2:16-17
Chapter 8
Guilty or Corrupted?
Two very different diagnoses of the human condition, and why the difference decides what redemption must be.
Romans 5:12
Chapter 9
Two Deaths, Two Substances
Dust returns to dust; something else does not. The distinction is not sentimental, it is structural.
Genesis 3:19
Chapter 10
Christ: The Duality Resolved
The centre of the book. Not a balance struck between good and evil, but the exhaustion of one by the other.
John 19:30
Chapter 11
The Cross as the End of Sin in Potential
What was torn open was not only a curtain. It was the possibility that the question could ever be reopened.
Hebrews 10:19-20
Chapter 12
Earth as the Stage
A small planet, watched attentively. The scale of the universe and the smallness of the stage are not in conflict.
1 Corinthians 4:9
Chapter 13
Objections and Answers
The strongest counter-arguments, stated fairly, answered directly, without rhetorical shortcuts.
1 Peter 3:15
Chapter 14
Dialogue with Other Theodicies
Augustine, Irenaeus, Leibniz, Plantinga — where this argument agrees, and where it does not.
Proverbs 18:17
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