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Michelle,
There are starving children in the
world because of people's sin, which
brings about injustice and suffering
in the world. God is not the cause,
man is.
- So why does God allow man
to sin and cause injustice for others?
Because he made humans to be persons,
like Himself, and persons have free
will. They have the ability to do
good or evil, choose God or self.
Free will is necessary because loving
God is necessary; and love, in order
for it to be love, must be freely
chosen.
Animals, plants, and rocks cannot
love because they are not
persons and hence not free.
God made
us persons to have a personal relationship
with us that will transcend this
life into Eternity. We must experience
and persevere the imbalance and subsequent
suffering that occurs in this sin-tainted
life to live with God forever when
all sin and injustice is wiped away.
(Revelation 21:4)
If:
- this life was all that was believed,
and
- faith in God's perfect justice
having the final word, in the bigger
picture for these children as well
as for all of us, was absent
then
it would be much more difficult to
understand the presence of starving
children.
Peace,
Paul
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