Charlie’s White Paper

This is a brief presentation considering a Christian attitude to the environment. It will come in four parts, so look out for updates. It was written to be presented to theological students, so it’s mostly in note form.
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Classic Theism and the Problem of Pain

‘God is love’ claims John in his first epistle, and yet in the world that God has made his creatures suffer. How can this be? How can a God who has love as His very being create a world with pain, hurt and death. How can one explain the presence of suffering in the world that God has made?

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It is important not to simply accept classic definitions of God, but to accept God’s self-revelation in relation to his creation as narrated and explained in the canonical scripture. There are a number of elements of His character as revealed in the Bible which are important to emphasise.
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1 John 4

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. ¹⁰In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹²No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. ¹³By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. (1 John 4)

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