If he neither wants to nor can, he is both weak and spiteful, and so not a god. If he can but does not want to, then he is spiteful which is equally foreign to god’s nature.

If he wants to and cannot, then he is weak and this does not apply to god. ‘God,’ he says, ‘either wants to eliminate bad things and cannot, This emotional reaction to pain and tragedy brings many to look to the ancient words of Epicurus as their prosecutor to present their charges against God to Epicurus, Lactantius attributes these words: The sentiment of this line gives words to a feeling that many among humankind have felt, tearfully shouting about their miseries to a seemingly cold and disinterested universe. This is a quote famously said to have been carved into a wall at Mauthausen, one of the numerous concentration camps used by the Nazis to exterminate Jews. If there is a god, he must ask me forgiveness’. Indeed, while I didn't personally enjoy it as much as, say, the Chronicles of Narnia series, I think I will still recommend this first from now on for newcomers to his writing, because it is so accessible and diverse while being inherently familiar.‘My God why have you forsaken me? To bend means to lie. This makes it easy to dismiss, even though it shouldn't be. This augments the particular nature of the book in a way, since it is very much his least remembered publication, even though it is often considered his best, and part of me tends to think that this is because it really doesn't fit neatly into any one category. In addition to that, while I was never as into his philosophical or apologetics works as I was his fiction, you can definitely detect strong traces of both here, despite it being part of his fiction repertoire. Lewis work, complete with the turns of phrase and descriptive fashion that only he could really do in that way. Then, part two kinda put a wrench in things, becoming way too philosophical and such to allow me to remain nearly so engaged in the narrative.All that being said, this is still very much a C. I didn't love it, but it was very interesting. That said, part one was quite good, with a bit of a different twist on things than the norm, but still aligning enough so as to be engaging and intriguing. To be fair, it's worth noting that I am a huge mythology fanatic, so I tend to have far higher standards than most when it comes to novelizations of the existing stories.

I thought it was pretty good, but I couldn't really get into it as much as I had hoped.

Till they have faces