Does an Infinite God Contain Infinite Evil Too?
The infinite stares back. Does sentience within God also include darkness? For years, I thought I had it figured out. I believed in God. Not the sentimental, robe-wearing, thunderbolt-hurling figure of cartoons, but an abstract force. A non-sentient infinite. A divine algorithm humming beneath reality. I believed that this vision of God was the most reasonable one. After all, if God existed before time, and time hadn’t yet begun, then surely thought—conscious, self-aware thought—was a stretch. And if thought was a stretch, then personality, judgment, or even concern for creation were outright fantasy. A non-sentient God seemed clean. Mathematical. Logical. And that kind of God didn’t get angry or demand worship. That God just was. That belief comforted me for a while. But it didn’t last. I had a strange realization. Not dramatic or sudden like a bolt of lightning, but slow and creeping, like water finding its way through cracks in stone. At first, it was just a doubt. A whisper t...
