Bible Question: Charis does Exodus 4:11 effect your answer? I think the problem here is we are trying to box God in. He is only a "good" God if what He does falls within our parameters or definitions of good. God is sovereign and his decisions effect more than just the 'here and now' they effect the spirit realm of which we know very little and all of eternity which we can only hope to understand. |
Bible Answer: Hi EdB, I think the example you site is a good one. Although handicaps are not moral evils, they are evils nonetheless. In the context, I see the passage as literal. Moses' speech problem was not figurative, and God is saying in effect, "the way I've made you is the way I want to use you." I suspect some believers unwittingly place the Law of God (or some other standard of morality) beside or above God and believe that he must conform to it. They don't realise that whever God does is right. The law of God tells US, not God, what to do. It is a law over us, not God. God is above the law and all men under it. God has revealed to us that He is good. That goodness must be understood in terns of His sovereignty, not by some supposed standard of goodness outside of God to which He must conform. If He makes a man deaf, it is the good and right thing to do, because whatever God does is good and right, because He is God. Does not the potter have a right over the clay? Lionstrong |