We don't need to define God's Goodness for Him - God's Goodness in God's terms
In a previous essay I addressed our interaction with non-Christians and the tension of interacting with rational minds that are at odds with who the God of the Bible is. But there is another audience that may need a deeper conversation about who God really is: Christians themselves. And more specifically, when one surveys the landscape of Christian activity, especially in the Western world, one of the concepts that needs a careful look because it is most prone to misconception is the goodness of God. Health-and-wealth theologies are the most obvious symptom of the problem. But the same distortion can be detected in well-intentioned Christian discourse and in the kind of theodicy employed to make all things appear tidy. "Everything is well in the end — if things are not well, it is because it isn't the end yet." "God has a purpose in everything." "God created you to be happy." These affirmations are not necessarily wrong, and something positive can...
