Bible Question:
I know God watches over us but why does He allow pedohpiles to molest children? This not only is the most vilest acts and it ruins the children they molest. Thanks.Shadow |
Bible Answer: Dear Shadow, I read this excerpt from the Editorial section of a local newspaper called "The Elkhart Truth".. "Troubled by father's statement Like so many others, my prayers go out to the Yates family in Houston. Words are inadequate to describe the horror of Andrea Yates' decision to take the lives of her children. There is nothing anyone can say that will reduce the grief of Rusty Yates, the father. At the funeral service for his five children, Rusty Yates is reported to have said that God gives and God takes away. God had acted, he said, according to news reports, to take these five children home. We all do our best to make sense when things seem to make no sense, but as a Christian I am troubled when we lay responsibility for a terrible act directly at the feet of God as if it were God's doing. As we pray together for the children, the mother and the father in the Yates family, I want non-Christians to know that many believers recoil at Rusty Yates' statement that this murder was an act of God. Few of us have easy answers about why terrible things happen in this world. God can be trusted, even in the middle of this terrible loss. Rev. Mark Fenstermacher, Trinity United Methodist Church, Elkhart Indiana" --Nolan |