The Problem of Pain in a Nutshell

If God is so good as to be morally perfect, how come there is trouble and evil in the world? If God were good, he would wish to make his creatures perfectly happy. And if God were almighty, he would be able to do what he wished. But the creatures are not happy. Therefore God lacks either goodness or power or both. Okay. Now I am on the first page of Louis's chapter two. And I'm on that page because there you find the problem of pain in a nutshell. And you get a recipe for what Louis is going to do in the rest of the book. That brings us to Christianity. There, Louis finds, of course, in