1. God is good.
2. God is all-powerful.
3. Bad things happen.
After listing these, the philosopher confidently says that all three cannot be true at the same time. If God is good, and if God is all-powerful, then bad things should not be happening. Or let’s say if God is good, and bad things happen, then this means God is not all-powerful enough to prevent the bad. Or if God is powerful enough to prevent bad events and doesn’t, then God is not good, but bad.
The above is erroneous thinking, due to not know the scriptures. It is the typical “blame God for everything” rather than man take responsibility for anything.
When God finished the creation, “And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.” Genesis 1:31 There was nothing bad in the creation, nor would anything bad happen throughout God’s creation. And, all that man knew at that time was good.
But it was sin that changed everything — the sin of man! When man disobeyed God and sinned in the Garden of Eden, he not only knew both good and evil, but his sin brought the curse upon the entire creation. This curse brought corruption, mortality, sorrow, pain, suffering upon mankind, and brought the whole natural realm under the bondage of corruption, which is responsible for all natural disasters.
God gave man dominion over all the earth. Man had the choice to keep his world all good as God created it, or bring the curse of sin upon all of it, and man chose the latter.
Beyond God’s goodness, is God’s grace, that provided salvation for man through the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ. God is so good that He was not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance unto salvation by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. God’s goodness commended His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for our sins.
Because God is all-powerful, He will, in His appointed time, judge all mankind, destroy this old universe and make all things new, where there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. Revelation 21:1-5
But until then, due to man’s spiritually dead state, man will continue to blame, rather than glorify, the good, almighty God.
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