Why Does God Permit Wickedness and Suffering? (Part 5)

Title: WHY DOES GOD PERMIT WICKEDNESS & SUFFERING?
(Part 5)
Author: Arthur Zulu
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WHY DOES GOD PERMIT WICKEDNESS AND SUFFERING? (Part 5)

By Arthur Zulu

A 12-year-old boy is dying of cancer in Columbia. His
father is held by fighting rebels. The dying boy begs
the rebels to release his father so that he could see
him before he dies. The rebels refuse. Sympathizers
volunteer to exchange places with the imprisoned
father in order to fulfill the wish of the sick and
dying boy. The rebels refuse. The boy dies without
seeing his father. And his father is killed by the
rebels.

A mortuary attendant in Bosnia has the unenviable task
of counting the dead in the senseless killings of the
war in that part of the world -- the worst of its kind
since World War II. Among the corpses brought to him
for enumeration were those of his son and relatives.

Pathetic images like these continue to be replayed in
bloody scenes around the world. Just switch on the
radio and listen to the world news at this hour and
tell me what good news you may have heard. In fact one
character in one of Charles Dickens’ books says that
he doesn’t read the newspapers. His reason? Because
the news is always the same -- someone is always
murdered somewhere.

And that’s true. About 12 wars are going on around the
world today, and if you live in the United States,
someone has either been robbed, raped, or killed this
very second! Everywhere, people are in fear of some
kind of evil. Says Harold C. Urey: “We will eat fear,
sleep fear, live in fear and die in fear.” These are
the fruitage of the rebellion of our first parents,
Adam and Eve -- political, economic, religious and
social crisis. Not even the UN has come to the rescue.

If you read the Bible books of Matthew chapter 24,
Mark chapter 13 and Luke chapter 21, you will find a
comprehensive list of features of our days -- war,
food shortages, pestilences, earthquakes, and
lawlessness, amongst others. People are suffering and
dying in the millions, and there is no end in sight.
In fact if you read Second Timothy chapter 3, you will
find out that things are going to get worst. We
haven’t seen anything yet!

This fact is supported by Human Development Report
1999 saying: “All countries report erosion of their
social fabric, with social unrest, more crime, more
violence in the home .... Global threats are
increasing, outgrowing national abilities to tackle
them, and outpacing international responses”. And
that’s the plain truth.

It is either happening in Rwanda, Liberia, Sudan or
Somalia. Or in the Middle East, Columbia or South –
East Asia. If it’s not ethnic cleansing, it is war
against terrorism. If AIDS is not on the rampage, it
is Ebola. And when it is not a hurricane or a tornado
doing its thing, it is a flood or drought that is
causing havoc, or it is an earthquake of major
proportions, or a volcano is suddenly spitting fire.

All these are happening to us because Adam and Eve,
our original parents ate the forbidden fruit? Yes; the
matter transcends eating of fruit. They took what
belonged to God; they challenged God’s Universal
Sovereignty -- His right to rule over mankind, and
sought independence from their Creator.

Thinking that their punishment was too much, some have
asked the following questions, and you may wish to
find out the answers.

Question: Why did God plant a forbidden tree in the
garden? Answer: Because he has the right to do so, and
nobody can challenge him.

Question: Did he know or not that Adam and Eve would
eat the fruit? Answer: No, he did not know. For God
can choose not to know.

Question: Why did he allow Satan to deceive them?
Answer: God did not allow it. Satan desired worship,
and deceit was his tool.

Question: Why did he not destroy the sinning trio?
Answer: Because God’s purpose of populating the earth
will be defeated, and the sovereignty issue will not
be resolved.

Question: Who made Satan the Devil in the first place?
Answer: It was not God, because God made perfect
angels. One of the angels made himself Satan, meaning
resister, and Devil meaning liar.

Are you surprised to read this? Do not be amazed. That
is the Bible fact.

But now you may ask: Who then causes wickedness and
suffering? What has been proved over the millenniums?
When will suffering end? And what will God do?

Let’s find out.

(To be continued)

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