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Why all the evil in the world if He is good?
In relation to this topic, we are answering questions that bothers Christians.
Questions that atheists and unbelievers as but we don't know how to reply them. We stopped at Question 3 on Sunday. So we move to question 4 today
Question 4.
Looking at these questions/discussions, makes me think about how when unbelievers or atheists say statements like "your all loving and powerful God let millions of children starve" or "your powerful God is not powerful enough to stop the killing", something along these lines basically. And while I know and believe that God is loving and merciful and gracious and powerful, there's no sound reply to give.
I always wondered why plenty people died too. God is ALL powerful, why can't He just step in and stop all the killings. Why can He just come down and do something about the evil in the world.Can't He see the pains and suffering in the world?
Sigh
I'm going to share a personal experience with us first as I go ahead to answer this question.
Sometime last year, i was walking on the road (to the market) and I suddenly saw myself in the midst of people Locked in a room.
Everyone in the room was in pains.
As I walked closer to each of them, I saw what was wrong with them and I FELT it. I felt their pains.
I walked up to the person having cancer and I could feel the pain of the cancer even more than they did. I quickly moved to the next person but the pain from the previous was there.
I was crying.
I wanted to help all of them
I wanted their pains to stop
I felt the pain of everyone in the room
I felt like dying. After a while, I started bleeding through my nose. I thought I was going to pass out. I wanted to stop feeling the pains of those people, it was too much for me.Then I saw Jesus (I think He had been there right at the time I entered the room)
He told me there were just a few people in the room and I only felt little of the pain each person is going through. He said: "I feel all of their pains, Even the ones not expressed fully. Even the ones hidden inside"
All of the pains of everyone in the world.Even the ones that haven't brought their burdens to Him to lift. I snapped out and realized I was already dropping tears in real life. This episode changed my intercessory life. It changed how I saw the world and the pain in it. It changed my reaction to people's pains. God truly cares for us. He mourns both the death of the righteous and unrighteous. He weeps over the lost souls. He suffers every pain, humiliation and violence as we do. We don't have a high priest who is out of touch with the current realities of this world.
He feels the pain even more than we do
Probably someone is thinking, So if He feels the pain, why can't He just come down and stop everything?
Let's go back to Creation.
Gen 1:26-28_*
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.*
Here is what God had in mind when He created man. He was creating gods. Men that will live forever. Men that had His image and likeness. He created man to have dominion. To have authority
To rule and have a mind of His own. After God created man, He gave instructions.
Simple instructions o
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
Genesis 2:16-17 KJV
The day you eat of the tree, you shall die. Man knew the consequences of that choice. God Did not hide that from them. Man still knows the consequences of Making evil choices this day but man is still busy "manning" . Adam *Chose* to disobey God and here we are.
I used to think, sebi it is Adam that sinned, God should have just dealth with Adam alone.
But I've come to realize that Adam is a fair representation of us All, humanity. There is really no Ojoro in it.
If Adam whom God looked at as Good at creation (like God was so impressed), and was also placed in a perfect environment (No sickness, waking up 9-5 To work, everything was just enjoyment basically), If he could disobey such simple instruction then any of us could
God wanted a world where man could think for himself and have dominion. God's ideal world isn't one filled with Automated human beings doing God's will cos they've been built or programmed to do so. God wanted (wants) a world where we obey and trust Him.
He created man out of love. When He saw what He created He was in love with it. God wanted to love man and He wanted man to love him back but out of choice and not compulsion. God gave man the ability to choose. When God's love hits you, the only way you can respond is loving Him back.
And if man returned this love to God, Man would choose peace, love, Calmness, righteousness. But man chose otherwise and even now that there is a way (like God really still sent His son to help us live our choice), Man still keeps choosing otherwise: War, hatred, chaos, evil, rape etc.
GOD MOURNS OVER ALL THESE, BUT REMEMBER THEY ARE ALL MAN'S CHOICES. GOD WILL NEVER VIOLATE OUR RIGHT TO CHOOSE*
Sadly, because of the choices man keeps making, there will be evil in the world until the day of the Lord. But do not be disturbed. He is coming soon to end all the sufferings in the world. Just as He waited 400 years before destroying Canaan (some Canaanites came to know Him these period), God is waiting for men to choose rightly (Christ) also. While we wait for the very end And the glorious beginning, Remember Christ has given us power and all authority. Please shine your light
Speak to situations around you
Pray for the world.
If we die today due to the evil in the world, it is not a loss for us because we are in Christ. We are going home. Again, we have all power and authority given to us now.
Speak to situations.
Pray for believers and unbelievers
Pray for the world
intercede on behalf of others.
God help us all.
Amen
QUESTION 5
Was Boko Haram made for his purpose as well?
It has been answered during the previous questions.
Boko Haram is an ideological group that believes in using violence to propagate their teachings.
I don't think God will have anything to do with such a group.God created man for his pleasure
Revelation 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
But if man decides to stray away from that path, and decides to do evil, I don't think God has any hand in that. That's the Devil's. Does this mean those who stray away from the original path are created for the devil's purpose
Nope.
The Devil filled the part made vacant by God's absence. Everything originally was created by and for God. Man created the organization and ideologies that formed Boko haram not God. But originally, the people in the organization were made for his good pleasure
Another thing..
Every man initially is born a sinner. His spirit had been corrupted via the sin of Adam. So the natural man has the propensity to do evil.
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
He being born again changes the spiritual genetic code from Adam to Christ.
Next question.
I will also leave this to us to answer .
Please if you are online and you have an idea, Just share.
QUESTION 6.
God is not a liar, He is love, and God is Kind and I understand His love but how do I explain this to a child who asks me why God is not stopping the war His family was killed in since he has the power to stop it?
James 4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.*
The origin of wars and any type of conflict .There are barbers and hairstylists all over the world. Does that mean everybody has their hair done or cut? You have to go to the barber for him to attend to you. God created man with a will. God won't enforce his will on man. When man decides to act according to his selfish will and desires, there will always be consequences
QUESTION 7. So the laws Moses wrote as consequences for disobedience God did not give them?
.
Who gave the laws?
I think God did. He wrote them himself on the stones. The law was given by God.
8) Was there Malaria in the garden of Eden? Or did God create mosquitoes after the original creation?
If man could be chilling with lions and bears in the garden of Eden, then mosquito surely weren't harmful. There was not sickness in the garden of Eden. Or maybe they weren't there. Maybe they evolved from some of the other insects in the Garden. Scripture records creation of bug.
God spoke: “Earth, generate life! Every sort and kind: cattle and reptiles and wild animals—all kinds.” And there it was: wild animals of every kind, Cattle of all kinds, every sort of reptile and bug. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:24-25 MSG
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