R.C. Sproul

And then he goes on and says that moral evil flows out of physical evil and or metaphysical evil.

So that what's wrong with the world is simply that the world is finite.

Now, do you remember Voltaire's writing the little book Candide?

How many of you studied Candide?

Remember Dr. Pangloss, and he had this sanguine view of the world?

There had been a terrible earthquake in Lisbon that had taken countless lives, and at the time, some of the Portuguese people were singing que será, será.

You know, what will be will be.

This is the hand of God.

Other people were shaking their fists against heaven, saying, how could a good and righteous God allow this terrible national calamity

to take place.

And so there were philosophers like Leibniz who were trying to answer that question, and Voltaire was poking fun at him.

Dr. Pangloss in Candide is simply the fictional representation of the philosopher Leibniz, because Leibniz said this, the only way God can make people is to make them finite.

The only kind of a world God could ever create is a finite world.

Because even God couldn't, I want you to think now, even God couldn't possibly create another God.

Why couldn't God create another God, a second God?

It's kind of easy, isn't it?

Because the second God,

would be a creature.

It would have been dependent upon the first God for its very existence.

It would be finite, dependent, and derived.