Thursday, June 28
about God
some interesting things that i picked out from the chinese article that bj asked us to read1. instead of asking "why does bad things happen to good people?", the right question should be, "why does good things happen to bad people?" every moment we are alive is by the grace of God. every bad thing that happens to us on earth is already an act of grace from God. our deserved punishment for our sinfulness is to be thrown into the lake of fire.
2. just like an author of a book does not write to prove his own existence, that's why God didn't write the Bible to prove himself. it is a known fact that He did exist.
3. one way we can know that God exist is by the moral standards of the world. in every part of the world, whatever culture it might be, lying is wrong and love is good. God is the one who placed this standard in mankind.
4. by asking, "who created God?" is just like asking the question, "what does blue smell like?" the color blue is not a category of things that produce smell. likewise, God is not a category of created things. God is self existent. if there was someone who created God, then God wouldn't be God.
5. "since God created everything, then God must have created evil too!" nope! when God created everything, it was good. God did not create evil. does darkness exist? actually...no. darkness does not exist, darkness is just an absence of light. does coldness exist? no! coldness is just an absence of heat. likewise, God did not create evil, he just allowed the absence of good. He didn't create us like robots where we just do everything good. He gave us a choice to worship Him truly and freely.
hope these concepts would make it easier for you to answer some questions your friends might ask.
*read more at www.gotquestions.org
help me to trust.