Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Tag: TROUBLE
Sometimes you wish you could solicit the help of God, but he doesn't seem to show up. At times you wish you could give him a piece of your mind, but he's not there in any tangible way to take questions or criticism. Where is he when you need him? Why does he seem so distant? Why doesn't he stop all the terrible things that happen in our world? Does he care at all? If you haven't asked any of these questions, you aren't human, or you aren't being honest.
People who go off the spiritual rails and who get led astray, and who even lose their faith are very possibly doing so because they have a completely inverted view of this world and a totally contrary view of God's intentions and purposes in our lives. I've seen it happen. I've felt its lure myself: haven't you?
What makes us struggle against the problems and the darkness of life? It's the fact that we were not initially created to live in a fallen, fractured, hostile world. However, here we are living in that very place, like it or not.
The most common cause of unbelief, according to surveys, is the problem of evil and suffering. If there really were a God, people reason, there would be no suffering. Putin's Russia would not get away with the invasion of Ukraine, Uncle Joe wouldn't have died of that awful disease, and the cat would not have got caught up in a tree.
The number one reason people will give for not seeking or believing in God, so I'm told and so I gather, is the amount of suffering in the world. If there really were a loving God, we think, there would be no wars. There would be no crime, no disease, and no hunger or poverty...
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