Evil
Advice & Help for Christians on the problem
of Evil
What
does The Bible say?
Suffering
and Evil in a world that God supposedly loves is the most difficult
issue for many Christians in terms of giving a reasonable explanation
as to why God apparently allows it. It is also a major stumbling
block for Christians and non believers alike!
What
are we to make of a loving creator that stands by and allows evil,
suffereing, torture and pain to rampage through this world? Is
there a greather meaning and deeper reason as to why God allows
suffering - if there isn't we as Christians are in hot water.
Thankfully
the truth behind the worlds greatest mystery is not that mysterious
at all! It's tied up with Gods desire for us - his creatures to
be given total free will. Anything other than giving us complete
control over out thoughts and actions would be short of giving
us real freedom. God has taken a huge leap and entrusted the world
to us even though we as a whols have rejected him over and over.
However, out actions may come at a cost to others.
A
huge and infinite price must be placed on the value of each person
and that value can be seen and felt through our phisical experiences
so that one persons actions - good or bad - effect another. Every
time you do something bad - someone actually suffers as a result.
It may even be you that suffers. Either way - real love means
real life and real life can only be lived out when there is a
price to pay for wrong doing. That seems incmprehensible to us
but its very simple and God himself went through the suffering
in the form of Jesus so no one could say that he is distant, removed
or unconcerned.
God
doesn not delight in suffering - he hates it. Yet He allowed man
to kill him! Greater love is not known other than one man lays
down his life for another. If there is no suffering in physical
form - then you have nothing to sacrifice thats of any real value
- nothing that really costs you anything. This is why God allows
suffering - its part or sacrificial love. Finally suffering must
be seen as a tiny spec of time line if eternity even though its
seems eternal to us - in an infinite time such as God has planned
for us - the suffering on this planet can in one sense (time wise)
be seen as infinitely small and a price well worth paying for
a life of eternity in heaven.
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