This morning I wrote a half-joking, pithy Tweet while eating toast covered in Nutella. It read, “Atheism would be a viable option if Nutella didn’t exist.” This is a derivative of C.S. Lewis’ and other’s theistic argument known as “the problem of good.” It is one thing to question the existence of God because of evil, but then we must ask why we have any concept of good and evil, beauty and ugliness.
I propose that Nutella is one of those good things about life that makes me thankful. If I am thankful then I must ask to whom. While the human creators of Nutella deserve honor it doesn’t stop there. I am thankful to the Creator who gifted the minds of those who created Nutella so that they could bring this wonderful substance into the world.
Then enters one Geoff Holsclaw! He claims it is the opposite. He says, “Atheism is viable because Nutella exists!” I call him a blasphemer and he called me a heretic.
So I am convening an online council.
Is Nutella something that leads you to believe that a good God must exist or does it contribute to the problem of evil?
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How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe if they have never tasted Nutella? And how can they taste without someone offering them a jar? And how can one offer them a jar if you are unwilling to share?
As it is written, “How beautiful are the hands of those who open the lid!”
But not all have accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Some find it to leave a disgusting nutty aftertaste.”
Jeff: Amen and amen!
Alas! People have considered the importance of taste in relationship to theism. Please allow me to direct your attention to the poetic voice of the one who said “taste and see that the Lord is good.” This plea, to taste can only be satisfied when tasting the good on this earth. The Lord tops the list, but after we find nutella, Hawaii’n bread, sushi, and many more.
Roger
Wise words!
Doesn’t [James 1.17] address this?
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights xwith whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.”
If Nutella is a good or perfect gift, then ….
Andrew
Exactly!