Please, I just have one question, and it would be very simple for you, having a relationship with God, just to pass one question along to Him and tell us what His answer is. I'm sure He won't mind. Why should it bother you to do this little favor for me?
Because you are supposed to ask Him the other question yourself, then you
can talk to Him about the new one you say you want answered.
Because you are supposed to ask Him the other question yourself, then you
can talk to Him about the new one you say you want answered.
Oh, are those the rules? Sorry, forgive me, I didn't know.
I'm out of luck, then. You see, I did ask him the question, back when I had a relationship with Him. He didn't answer. But I was hoping maybe you had a better relationship than I did. In fact, mine, it turned out, wasn't even real. It was pretend. I never had a real conversation with God. I would talk (pray), but if He ever talked back, I couldn't hear Him. I guess He has a really soft voice. I mean really soft. Indistinguishable from total silence, far as I could tell.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
Oh, are those the rules? Sorry, forgive me, I didn't know.
I'm out of luck, then. You see, I did ask him the question, back when I had a relationship with Him. He didn't answer. But I was hoping maybe you had a better relationship than I did. In fact, mine, it turned out, wasn't even real. It was pretend. I never had a real conversation with God. I would talk (pray), but if He ever talked back, I couldn't hear Him. I guess He has a really soft voice. I mean really soft. Indistinguishable for total silence, far as I could tell.
Those are the rules He has given me on this occasion.
oh... and the question you are supposed to ask Him is:
~do you still love me?~
I think it is fair to say this is one of the most difficult problems for Christians to deal with.
Some philosophies are still trying to figure out what is good and what is evil, others such as Scientology deny the existence of reality. But Christianity must come to terms with the fact that they have defined good and evil, they believe it actually exists and they believe in an all good all powerful God who seems to be standing by watching with His arms crossed while bad things happen to the innocent.
Asaph complains of the same thing in Psalm 73. He wants to know why the wicked prosper and the righteous suffer. We as humans want to scream at God, "That's not fair." If this life were all that there was we certainly would be justified in our accusation. But like Asaph observed "Then I saw their end."
Without the vantage point of eternity it is arrogant to complain to God, "that's not fair." We believe that an all loving, all powerful God will one day destroy evil and wrongs will be made right. So it is not that God is either not loving or not powerful enough to destroy evil it is that he has not YET destroyed evil.
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