A Letter to a Baptist Minister about: The Origin of Evil

Dear Frank: Your question of some time ago, “Where did sin originate?” is admittedly a difficult one.  Both pagan and modern thought have wrestled with this age-old problem of evil, but have no adequate solution honoring to God.  Reformed theology (the doctrine of Scripture) alone faces the matter squarely, and handles the subject with any degree of success.  Philosophy presents evil as something that has always existed, and is as eternal of “God.”  The problem of evil is also a problem for...