“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”
Every argument about evil is in fact an argument about God. If we begin with a Creator who is partly good, partly powerful, partly present, the problem dissolves cheaply, and so does the answer. The essay therefore begins where it must: with attributes that admit no negotiation.
Scripture presents a Creator who is eternal, self-existent and unconstrained, who calls light out of nothing and holds the structure of matter together without effort. Scale is the first evidence: a universe of this magnitude is not a workshop for a limited artisan.
But magnitude alone would only prove power. What must be held together is power and goodness at once, because it is precisely their coexistence that the presence of evil appears to contradict. The rest of the book is an attempt to show that the contradiction is apparent, not real.
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