A simple question deserves a simple answer.
Take for example the hundreds of thousands of Somalis who have died because of the brutal civil wars that have ravaged their country for decades. How can God allow Somali women and children to be slaughtered violently in the hands of evil men? How can the all-knowing and omnipotent Creator allow chaos to destroy Somalia? Don't the Somalis also deserve His promise of eternal life?
Atheists and agnostics have asked me questions like these time and again and I have found it quite hard to answer them bluntly without sounding too righteous, overzealous, and overbearing. Would a loving father allow his children to be murdered in cold blood? Would a father subject his children to pain and suffering in the first place? If no father on earth would willingly do this, why then would our Heavenly Father willingly allow us to suffer? Is God, therefore, out there!?
Yes.Atheists and agnostics have asked me questions like these time and again and I have found it quite hard to answer them bluntly without sounding too righteous, overzealous, and overbearing. Would a loving father allow his children to be murdered in cold blood? Would a father subject his children to pain and suffering in the first place? If no father on earth would willingly do this, why then would our Heavenly Father willingly allow us to suffer? Is God, therefore, out there!?
You see, God has never abandoned us. It is we who have abandoned Him. We create criminals. We create the evening news. We create polarized societies. And we create corruption, hunger and poverty. We also created Marijuana, Cocaine, and LSD. We created child-porn, and ultimately, we created the Atomic bomb. We make our world the miserable and dark place which it is not supposed to be.
God has nothing to do with the evil we harbor against each other. So, stop blaming Him for what we do. Would it be just to blame and punish your mother in law for a crime that you have committed?
Whether you like it or not, He is out there. There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in our Universe that are larger than our own Milkyway galaxy, and each of these galaxies have billions of stars, blackholes, and other stellar bodies moving about them. A creation this vast and mind-boggling would surely need a purpose and, consequently, need an architect. For everything has a purpose, as every action produces an equal and opposite reaction.
And though the Big Bang theory quaintly explains how the Universe came to be (most scientists have unreasonably accepted this theory as fact) this theory cannot be proven by science and, as such, can only be taken as a matter of faith by scientists.
The better question is; what then provided the energy needed to produce the Big Bang?
A Japanese diesel generator!?
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I'm an agnostic and if you put it that way, I can't help but hope that God is out there wtching over all of us.
ReplyDeleteGod has pitted good men against evil men since the beginning of time, so that evil men cannot spread mischief all over the world.
ReplyDeleteIt just so happens that the good men have been sitting things out, lately, and have been watching the massacres and injustices around the world on cable tv.
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