Last month the Journal announced a new feature in which we will ask two or three spiritual thinkers to answer questions that come from readers. There's more information at the end of the column on how to submit your questions. Following is the reader's question—and answers—the Journal staff chose to feature this month.
How can God be only good, since the terms omniscient and omnipresent seem to imply a knowledge of both good and evil?
One time I fell on my face. It was bleeding and badly damaged. To me, the accident and the wounds were a kind of evil. As I thought deeply about God as exclusively good, the bleeding stopped within an hour and the facial wounds healed up in a couple of days.
