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1 | Human misery and the presence of God | John 9:1 | fchaparo | 40898 | ||
In a recent trip to a very devastated area of Honduras (Central America) where poverty and human misery is as crude as you can imagine, I was ask “Were is God when little children are abused or people are killed or people die of starvation?” Could you provide me with an answer to this an perhaps a biblical verse or two in this regard. Thank you, Francisco Chaparro |
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2 | Human misery and the presence of God | John 9:1 | RElderCascade | 40899 | ||
There are no easy answers to this -- or to many things for that matter. In John 9 we see a typical assumption fleshed out in the question asked of Jesus: 1* ¶ And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3* Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4* I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. This is not a proof text for anything specific to the question asked but it serves as a good reminder that the largest issue is the person and work of our risen Lord Jesus Christ, not mans temporal condition. Suffering and sin and death (even walking death) are all extremely unfortunate but this world is not the whole picture, there is more. There are those who think it is compelling to question the existence of God, because their hope is obscured by suffering and evil therefore (they conclude) God is either a weakling or non-existant. Neither option takes all the data into account. Such a conclusion as delineated above seems to often be really a set of presuppositions which can hardly be provable in Scripture or experience or science. At the core of this is a likelihood to believe that this is really a closed system (meaning that Henry Fonda was right in "Sometimes a Great Notion") that this is all there is. Just birth, life, work, and death or another arrangement of meaninglessness that rules out the existence of God. In contrast God's revelation (in Christ) demonstrates this is really an open system and that God is really there and that He is not as silent as one thinks. Keep in mind that suffering and man's inhumanity to man are not things that God takes any form of delight in. This is really an extremely open ended conversation all I have done is make a first contribution. |
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