Process Theodicy

• Scholars

  David Griffin
• "As God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth was without form and void"
• God less of a creator but more of a craftsman
• The universe and God exist in a pantheistic relationship

  God is within in the universe
• God part of the universe and time so cannot intervene to stop evil and suffering

  God not omniscient or omnipotent
• We arrived on earth through evolution
• Humans have great power to bring happiness and love at the expense of pain and sadness
• God = good but just has no power to do anything about it
• God suffers with us

  "God is the fellow sufferer who understands"