Why Does God Permit Wickedness and Suffering? (Part 3)

Title: WHY DOES GOD PERMIT WICKEDNESS AND SUFFERING?
(Part 3)
Author: Arthur Zulu
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WHY DOES GOD PERMIT WICKEDNESS AND SUFFERING? (Part 3)

By Arthur Zulu

Does God exist? Or is he dead as some say? The answers
to these questions will help us to know why he allows
wickedness and suffering in this world.

As a starting point, note this: whatever is made
requires a maker. The chair you are sitting on now did
not fall from heaven . It was made by a carpenter.
The computer from where you downloaded this article
did not happen by chance. It was made by a genius. And
the article that you are reading now did not evolve.
It has an author.

These in themselves are small things. Now, consider
bigger and more complex things. Like what? you may
ask. Like the universe. Who made it?

It is very easy to say that the universe is without
cause. Think of the order among the 100 billion stars
in our galaxy, and the 100 billion galaxies in the
known universe! Consider the fact that these galaxies
are arranged in clusters and super clusters.

Imagine the fact that the universe is in a constant
state of expansion, and the likelihood of other
universes. Add the fact that even now scientists are
discovering new stars and galaxies that defy their
previously held opinions.

Reflecting on the order and intelligence in the
universe, proponents of the Big Bang theory have begun
singing different tunes.
Asked John Glenn: “Could this have just happened? Was
it an accident that a bunch of flotsam and jetsam
suddenly started making these orbits of its own
accord?” He answers his own question: “I can’t believe
that . . . . Some Power put all this into orbit and
keeps it there.”

Another scientist, Stephen W. Hawking agrees:” The
more we examine the universe, we find it is not
arbitrary at all but obeys certain well-defined laws
that operate in different areas. It seems very
reasonable to suppose that there may be some unifying
principles, so that all laws are part of some bigger
law”.

Now, consider the earth -- our home, a store house of
food and “the greatest of all cosmological scientific
puzzles” according to Levis Thomas.

It is positioned at the right distance from the sun
(to make life possible), it revolves round the sun (to
make for change of seasons), it rotates once very 24
hours (making day and night to happen), and it has an
atmosphere (to protect us.) Was it made, or did it
come about by chance?

Well, what about the brain, which in the words of
Henry F. Osborne “is the most marvelous and mysterious
object in the whole universe”

Do you know that as you read this, some 100 million
messages are pouring into your brain every second? But
how you may ask, does it make it possible for you to
focus on what you are reading right now?

Because the brain censors incoming information and
scans itself every tenth of a second thus making it
possible to focus on the important ones.
Imagine the complex electrochemical transmission and
the quadrillion connections between the 100 billion
neutrons or nerve cells in the brain. And imagine the
fact that these connections are several times more
than all the communication systems in the whole world!

Commenting on the information storage capability of
the brain, Carl Sagan said that it “would fill some
twenty million volumes, as many as in the world’s
largest libraries”. Do you think that it evolved, or
was it made by a Superior Intelligence?

Said the neurosurgeon, Dr. Robert J. White: “I am left
with no choice but to acknowledge the existence of a
superior intellect, responsible for the design and
development of the incredible brain-mind relationship
-- something far beyond man’s capacity to understand .
. . . I have to believe all this had an intelligent
beginning, that someone made it happen.”

Who is that Someone? He is God, the creator, the one
who has no beginning and no end. His power and
intelligence is seen from the complexity of the things
he has made -- from the terrifying cosmos to the small
atom.

So since there is God, why does he permit wickedness
and suffering?

(To be continued)

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