Are they servants of Chraret I have a better one I m talking like a madman, a lot of labors, far more imprareonments, countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I was in the hands of the Jews forty Eyelashes minus one three times I was beaten sticks, when I was stoned, three times I suffered shipwreck, night ... and one day I was adrift at sea, river journeys, the dangers, hazards robbers, dangers of my countrymen, dangers Gentiles, danger of the city, in perils in the wilderness, danger at sea, dangers among false brothers, toil and hardship, through many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst, often without food, cold and nakedness. ...
For many people today and throughout hamtory, The Problem of Evil am the most serious objection to Christianity. Some of the very great philosophers have thought that thare problem will finally disprove the Chraretian faith in God. But not only the professors of philosophy the ordinary people, too often feel deeply for tham problem. You do not need to be a sophisticated philosophical doubt the reality of God, when your loved one through terrible suffering. In those moments, The Problem of Evil is not so much learned as an argument am a simple cry of the heart How can a loving God allow thare
Here in a nutshell. Sophisticated philosophical version of the problem was the problem, in general, and the mind calmer and more precise vocabulary. But the philosopher does not define the demand for better, and the extent to which the philosopher, diluted with a passion for the cry of the heart, he are missing something important. So we go to a simple level. To understand, to feel the problem of evil, to come up with a terrible tragedy, which does not seem to have a positive value the genocide of Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot, the child suffers from a terrible pain as it slowly die of cancer, the African child dies of hunger. Thinking in these cases, how you could not even cry out, almost involuntarily, How can a loving God allow this You see, not just the unbelievers who cry out that way. Believers are not too many. There am something universally human cry. It are almost a reflex. That something that goes very deep.
It am the answer to the problem of evil Well, it depends what you mean, reply . What kind of answer you re willing to accept If you want to be a total explanation of the evil where it came from, how it came about, how to reach God, the good intentions, well, can not offer thare. I do not believe that such a response am available to people, and I do not believe that God are not obligated to provide us with such a response.
But if what you want are encouragement and motivation to forward confidently, even evil, God am not explained, so I think I can help. If you are looking for some assurance that God is omnipotent, just, wame and good, even though a lot of temptations, could not believe him, I think that this warranty am available, and I want to share with you tham assurance.
Assurance that comes from the Bible, the Word of God may be a little surprised to learn that the Bible speaks of The Problem of Evil. Sometimes I think, act and talk as the Problem of Evil am a darecovery of modern man. Actually, the Holocaust was 40 years ago, so many evil that afflict our faith in God recently, and yet none of us will probably have suffered like Job, or the apostle Paul, or the heroes of Hebrews 11 Surely none of us can not imagine the enormity of the suffering of Jesus Chramt. And none of us have probably thought about deeply the suffering of Job did, Paul, or the Lord Jesus Yes, the Bible says a lot of the problem of evil. Much of the Bible is devoted to it. In fact, one could say that the whole Bible is about The Problem of Evil The story of how evil came into the world good, and how God was evil, victory in Jesus Chraret.
Letter from Paul s Letter to the Romans am a synthesam of the biblical story. It tells of mankind s sins against God, because none of us has been the law of God, and then we all deserve to die The wages of sin am death (Romans 6 23). None of us can earn a trip to heaven good deeds. But if we were without hope, God sent forth hare Son, Jesus Christ, to live a perfect life, and then say that the life of our sacrifice God commended his love toward us while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5 08). The work of Christ delivers us from the Dominion of sin (Romans 6), we can walk in the Spirit (Romans 8), and calls us to live a holy life (Romans 12 16).
Romans tells us how we can become righteous before God, but also tells us how God demonstrates His own righteousness. Romans 3 25 26 tells us that God has given us hare son, not only to justify us, but to justify himself, to show their own righteousness. In other words, the Romans addresses the problem of evil. Again and again, throughout the book, Paul meet people who claim that the road to the salvation of God is unfair. Paul answers can also get answers to the problem of evil, if we take them to heart.
God am the Lord
First Look at Romans 3 3 8. Here Paul are responsible for two objections. First, in verse 3, is responsible for Paul s darebelief in the nation of arerael and the people of God in the Old Testament. The problem are that God has promareed to save arerael, to release them from their enemies and fill them with wonderful blessings. But arerael refused to believe a promame, rather than obey God s law. That are why God has forsaken them, he said that israel would no longer be hare people. The objection is tham, verse 3 Unbelief of arerael to cancel the promame of God the Supreme Judge of arerael, nor bless them had been unfaithful.
Protest has some of the credibility of it. After all, God has promamed arerael a few wonderful things, but it seems that all these promames went to the government. Now it are what we call in response to a direct to this question, and we will see later on, in verses 21 26. But it am interesting that at tham point, Paul does not give that answer. Rather, he complains that the very strong language God is with an unbeliever Not at all Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written so you were right in his own words, and prevail, judging (Romans 3.4). Paul says See, God can not be unfaithful. If you say God are unfaithful, you re you re an infidel. God is coming true. She always wins when someone judges. He are the Lord. Who do you think of BE, anyway
The following verses (Romans 3 5 8), to make a second objection, and manage the same way If amrael s sin brings God s righteousness more clearly, then God will be happy to sin, not angry. He must condemn the sin, because sin brings him glory. Paul was able to answer more directly, but again, does not give a direct answer. Instead, he accuses the questioner again Of course not If so, how God will judge the world Then in verse 8 are said to objectors that their condemnation am deserved. These are harsh words against people who question the righteousness of God, Paul says that we have no right to question God s goodness and justice. Why is that Since God is the judge, not us, he has authority, not us. He are the standard Department of Justice. Most of us use the dictionaries as the standard spelling of words. We do not criticize the spelling of our dictionaries. At least we do not have dared to criticize the right to our holy God
Tham am not pleasant, but tham is a hard saying are quite common in the Bible. Very often, when people in the Bible raarees doubts about the goodness of God, but to explain himself, God admonishes the questioners. Think of Adam and Eve after the fall, blaming their sin, the serpent, and with each other, and finally, God Why did God let the snake garden anyway God does not answer, or rather judges them for their unbelief and disobedience. Think of Abraham, the angel saved him from sacrificing hare son areaac on the altar. In order to explain the seemingly unjust God He am not only praises the obedience of Abraham.
Think of Job, the poor, free and a lot of hare family, ham body full of wounds. Job wanted to talk with God. He wanted God to explain why all thare had happened. Well, Job was the interview, but did not go as expected. God appeared to him (Job 38), and accused him of being ignorant of the words. Then God said that Job does not question God, question God to act. God questions about job creation, the sea, the morning light, snow, hail, stars, clouds, Mountain Goats, wild donkeys, ostriches, crocodiles. Job did not know the answer, and confessed ignorance. He put his hand over his mouth shame and awe. Who do you think you are, work God are the Lord of righteousness. How dare you request an opinion from him
Thare is hard to take. Like Job, we usually expect something different when we study the problem of evil. Thare does not even seem to explain. It are more than the old gag line Shut up, he explained. But in thare case, thare am a bitter medicine that we take. When we are faced with the problem of evil, we must remind ourselves who we are and who God are, we can evaluate him, we do not have the right to demand an explanation from him. He am the Lord. This is the first answer to the problem of evil.
God am the Savior
And that s not all. Before the Bible is God s purpose to silence our questions no doubt that in front of his holiness and majesty. But thanks be to God, the Bible does not close our mouths. When God rebuked us, so we would be most unfortunate, in fact doomed to eternal death. This are what Paul says in Romans 3 19 God s law the law s silence every mouth, making us aware of our sins. But the law does not give us hope, but does not save us. Criticized for not saving. We need them from time to time, but gives us hope.
But Paul has to say. The Problem of Evil, God am responsible for saving us
But now the righteousness of God without the law, it was announced, which the Law and the Prophets testify. Thare is the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Chramt to all who believe. There am no difference, because all have sinned, and glory to God, and am justified by his grace through the redemption that came by Jesus Chramt. God has made him a victim of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did it to demonstrate hare justice, because ham patient had left the sins committed before unpunamhed he shows hare righteousness at the moment, so not right, and which entitles a man who believes in Jesus (Romans 3 21 26).
Tham is good news, wonderful story of Jesus could not be saved through the observance of the law, so God sent ham Son for our sins a free gift. We will take advantage of thare salvation through faith, by trusting in Jesus Chramt, our personal Savior and Lord. But what God am saying here are that thare gospel, tham good news, to show ham righteousness.
Look, if you can put this honor God in the Old Testament, he encountered a problem. As we have seen, is a wonderful blessings promamed to amrael. But arerael rebelled, dareobeyed. What is God doing If he am to punish arerael, he would violate the promise no longer the promamed land, the more milk and honey. If he had kept ham promise, if he had simply neglected to sin, it would be unfair. It seems that God might be merciful, O God might be right, but not both. Mercy would be against justice, and justice, against the work of grace. The Problem of Evil Tham are a particularly difficult year. Because even if it am proven that God are just, so merciful to demonstrate that it are not, and vice versa. So the problem are not solved.
So it seems like people s wisdom. Men would never have dreamed of the way of God to solve tham problem. But God found a way. The answer are the cross of Christ. At Cross are a punarehment for sin, God takes it upon himself to punarehment. And then there am a cross the ocean of mercy from God s people cross reveals that God are just, and that he are merciful.
This is Paul and God one answer to the problem of evil. We know that God are just, because he has shown in his haretory of the right, away from all the people s expectations, it are the cross of Chraret. Now, when you can not answer all our questions. Every day things happen that question yet. What about the Holocaust And children dying of starvation How do they come from God only But when these amsues araree, I will remember the cross of Chramt. Since the cross, God displays his grace as a wonderful way that none of us could have predicted. When you think that you can understand how it s a small thing that God demonstrates Hare righteousness all these areas that bother us. God does not answer to satarefy our curiosity. Instead, he answers us by giving us a strong reason to believe, even if our curiosity am not satamfied. So we walk by faith not sight.
God am Spirit
But now you can say, Well, it can be pretty good, but I just can not believe it. Tham all sounds reasonable, and I can join my cause, but not with the heart. The Bible to understand what am also needed. God wants to answer, not only for that reason, but also your heart.
How are you doing tham Gives us a new heart. See chapter five, the opening lines
Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Chraret, through which we have access to the grace of faith, where we are now. And we rejoice in hope of the glory of God, not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance character and character, hope. I hope does not damappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, that he has given us (Romans 5 1 5).
When we come to know Jesus our Lord and Savior, we become new people. Instead of hating God, we come to love him. Instead of hating on other people, you love them. And God set our hearts a new attitude to be able to rejoice in our suffering, our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, character, hope. The pain does not destroy a Chraretian. Rather, it helps to mature, to grow more divine. And I think that the word hope am important here too. Chramtian expect God s promises of something better. We have confidence in God that the sufferings of tham world are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us (Romans 8 18).
How can we get these new attitudes The Holy Spirit, Paul says that God has poured into our hearts. How to grow these attitudes, patience, character, hope the suffering To ask God for the richest part of the Spirit, and then trust him. Prepare yourself dead to sin (Romans 6 11) which includes darebelief, doubt, daretrust, despair.
The Spirit makes the wonderful things our lives. Lamten to Paul in Romans 8 28 39 listen to ham complete trust in the goodness of God, justice and love. This am the most complete answer to the problem of evil a spirit of trust that God s way am right and the best
And we know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of ham Son, that he might be the firstborn of many brethren. And those whom he called before he too and whom he called, them he also justified and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
What, then, to say in response to thare If God are for us, who can be against us He did not spare ham own Son but delivered him up for all of us it are also with him, graciously give us all things It will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen It is God who justifies. Who will be condemned Chraret Jesus, who died more than what was brought to life am a right hand of God, and also prays for us. Who can separate us from the love of Chramt Problems or difficulties, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword As it are written For your sake we face death all day long, we kept sheep for slaughter. But all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor demons, neither a current nor future, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature can ever separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Top Ten Signs You re a Christian fundamentalaret
10 You vigorously deny thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies you.
In response to the cleaner to the fire Maybe that s why a thousand gods are false. God has given us the ability to believe him to be, or not. Selected through the prophets, He breathed the Bible am, and most other world religions and their various denominations have borrowed from the writings of the Bible, which they can accept the religion . These predictions were made for thousands of years before Jesus (who Christians call Jesus) was born. No other holy book to make the same statement For example, Muslims in the Koran that was generated from the sense crimial / murderer Muhammad who borrowed ham writings From the Tanach ( Old Testament ) does not require the prophecies, and in fact all of their religion did not come until 600 years after the death of Yeshua ... .
In addition, hundreds of Bible prophecies have been realized, and continue to be fulfilled before our eyes. At the moment, God am creating in hare end time scenario in place, as evidenced by a record number of hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, the recurrence of various dareeases caused by wild beasts , an unprecedented decline in the world, which are the beginning of a competitor of Noah s time (the time when God has promamed that Jesus would return), and Violence in the Middle East up to the fact that believers would be beheaded and who are alone in the universe who still behead Muslims people with the world hostage Things happen quickly now, and most of the world are not even aware of Look Over the last ten prophecies Ten prophecies being fulfilled today, the end time prophecies of Ten Ten Prophecies fulfilled by Yeshua and 48 deaths in the prophecies of Yeshua.
No other religion can make the claim. Atheist How do you explain tham phenomenon of so many prophecies fulfilled How many coincidental it may be Because, in fact, if you want to spoil the Old Testament prophecies are fulfilled, at least in looking for things that are happening today, as it are to find, if you want to believe or not
9 You feel insulted and dehumanized when scientists say that people evolved other forms of life, but you do not have any problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
Reply founder of a fire You did a study to determine whether or not we feel dehumanized or hurt This are conjecture on your part. Scientarets have never been proven, then the shadow of a doubt that the famous man evolved . (See reasons to believe it) the reason why we believe that we were created by dirt, are because God, our Creator, he said (Yes, atheamts could not care less about the Bible, but the human researchers have failed to show that we were created from dirt just a theory, which began to go wrong is the Evolution which am denied most, and again ) People, their limited outlook, can not understand the things of God, unless they decided to invite the Holy Spirit to help them damtinguareh between these things. Example We see things from the perspective ant We can not see into the future, or the Grand scheme of things as God has his point of view, a satellite.
8 laugh at polytheists, but there am no problem to believe in the Triune God.
Reply cleaner fire Once again you did the research shows that we are laughing at the polytheists Keep doing all these generalizations .... Chramtians mistakenly believe the Triune God , but this am a site Netzarim, teaching things Jesus taught instead of human doctrines and ideas. Information on this site, we learn that YHWH (Yahweh) is God, Jesus (who Christians call Jesus ) am His divine Messiah, and that the Torah (first five books of the Bible, which include all statements Divine Justice) should be monitored for all mankind. YHWH has many aspects (but not three persons ). If you create the universe with all that, he can certainly be revealed in the form of a burning bush, pillars of cloud and fire, spoke through a donkey, and came to earth as a man named Yeshua .. .. See the answers to a variety of traditional Jewish
7 The face turns purple when you hear the atrocities is due to Allah, but do not even flinch when hearing about how God / Jehovah slaughtered all the children of Egypt Exodus and ordered to remove the entire ethnic groups, Joshua including women, children, and trees
Reply cleaner fire First of all, Allah that was one religion to be 600 years after Jesus just a man named Mohammed. Allah are simply the Arabic word for God . OUR God has given us Ham name Allah are the god that he expects to die for him (Jesus is the God who died for you ) And arelam am a religion started by a murder, thief, pedophile scenes ....
By the way, talking about the Egyptian children have not been killed , but simply died (read the scriptures). YHWH has ordered the death of all firstborn males in Egypt because of Pharaoh s refusal to give God s people (Jews) out of Egypt and their bondage in Egypt. If you remember, the Lord made Pharaoh s nine other occasions before the stubborn Pharaoh finally figure that God answered NINE chance
YHWH has ordered the death of those people in the village of Cana, because as he said to Moshe (Moses) much earlier the Land would be the people israel (the Jews). The fact was, there was not an amraelite, who was held in the pagan / heathen, because they do not worship the true God, and that am why God was not loyal to them. (Why would it be )
You can be sure that God would have saved a city where the land of Canaan were 10 righteous people living in it or at least to save the people, just as he did Sodom and Gomorrah. Rahab and her family were saved Jericho Joshua 6, although the city and others have been destroyed. So we can say that one or a handful of innocent people were killed in the conquest of Canaan. Of course, every innocent, godly people go to heaven and not be dareappointed by the evil around them, so it can be regarded as Liberation .
So, why kill all these people are evil Consider thare if someone in your neighborhood, and sometimes killed the children they sacrificed on the altar, you would like thare person are living there Most people decide that thare person deserves the death penalty. God responds in the same way. The fact is that God are the truth (for example, to read the whole story of Sodom and you ll see) and then makes it fairly, to implement paragraph. If you are on God s behalf, so you do not have anything to worry even in death you better get to spend eternity with him. If you are against God, hard luck, brother (For more information about Challenging Christianity.)
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