Why God permits evil

On September 16, 2010 was published “Why God permits evil ” on Bijbelvorsers, vereniging voor Bijbelstudie, the Bible scholars, Association for Biblestudy. It got 128 views from its day of apparition until 2014, December 23.
Because of the ending of the association it is published here before dis-abandoning the website.

In the beginning, when the World was created man was not made perfect but was given the free will to make his own choices and either to follow God’s path and do good or to get to know good and bad by going against God’s Law.

All About Evil (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Though God does not love any bad thing or evil He permitted men to have a temporarily experience with evil so that people could learn to live with the knowledge and the contrast between living in obedience or in selfishness. But we should always be aware that God takes no pleasure in wrong doing and that there is no evil with Him.

“For you are not a God taking delight in wickedness; No one bad may reside for any time with you.” Psalm 5:4.

Man’s distressed mind affected his physical health. Because he wanted more than that was given to him he brought a burden onto him. Men lost his dominion over himself. Nature would become stronger than men. The calamities in nature are the result of disobedience. God told Adam that because he gave ear to the voice of his wife and took of the fruit of the tree which He said they were not to take, the earth would be cursed on their account and in pain they and those after them will get their food from it all their life.

“17 And to Adam he said: “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and took to eating from the tree concerning which I gave you this command, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life. 18 And thorns and thistles it will grow for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.” “ (Ge 3:17)

Get to know more in your personal study: “The Permission of Evil”

How can a God of love allow evil to exist?  Is He not concerned with the welfare of His creation?  What is the purpose of evil?  How does the plan of God allow man to choose for himself what is good and proper?  Please click below to watch a 13.5 minute video on why God permits evil.

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Additional reading:

1. The professor, God, Faith and the student
2. Why Think There Is a God? (3): Why Is It Wrong?
3. Philosophy hand in hand with spirituality
4. This month’s survey question: Does God Exist?
5. Christendom Astray The Devil Not A Personal Super-Natural Being
6. Men as God
7. Facing disaster fatigue
8. Is God behind all suffering here on earth
9. Suffering redemptive because Jesus redeemed us from sin
10. What IF you’re only driven by stress?
11. When discouraged facing opposition
12. Cancerous Black Holes
13. Cancer and Life Lessons
14. It is a free will choice
15. Bad things no punishment from God
16. God’s measure not our measure
17. How we think shows through in how we act
18. Angry but not sinning
19. A love not exempting us from trials
20. Positive – Negative being positive, negative or positive
21. The World framed by the Word of God
22. Be holy
23. 112314 – A Peculiar People
24. Wishing to do the will of God
25. Golden rule for understanding in spiritual matters obedience
26. A Living Faith #9 Our Manner of Life
27. Let us become nothing, and Christ everything
28. Love the Whole Person
29. Love envieth not
30. The Greatest of These is Love
31. Challenging claim
32. Challenging claim 1 Whose word
33. Missional hermeneutics 5/5
34. Not to speak is to speak
35. Silencing Women – Of God or Men ?
36. Getting fate in your change to positiveness
37. Looking at three “I am” s
38. Cleanliness and worrying or not about purity
39. Relapse plan
40. Run for the Everlasting Cure
41. Being religious has benefits even in this life
42. Count your blessings
43. Thanksgiving wisdom: Why gratitude is good for your health
44. Looking forward to the return of Jesus
45. Psalm 66 OJB
46. God’s promises to us in our suffering

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A true sermon is a real deed.

Those who preach may never forget that not there words should resound but the Words of God should enlighten the people.
Though the speaker may allow others to see the weakness of weak imperfect man, our incompleteness and how in our inadequacy we can try to make ourselves better, trying to become beloved children of God.
Each of us has to share our experiences and our knowledge so that everybody can be helped and grow, feeling that we all are there to help each other to understand the Word of God and find hope in the promises of God.

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To remember:

• Christ himself existed not to present us with the supreme spiritual spectacle of history
• Christ himself existed to achieve the critical thing in history.
• Gospel = act of God
• Gospel calls for an act + inspires it
• Gospel preaching => “function” of the great act
• true sermon = real deed
• sermon = preacher’s personality into an act <= chief form of Christian life and practice

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For this, therefore, I say that Christ Himself existed not to present us with the supreme spiritual spectacle of history, but to achieve the critical thing in history. The Gospel is an act of God,
gathered in a point but thrilling through history, and it calls for an act, and inspires it. Its preaching must therefore be an act, a “function” of the great act. A true sermon is a real deed. It puts the preacher’s personality into an act. That is his chief form of Christian life and practice. And one of his great difficulties is that he has to multiply words about what is essentially a deed. If you remember what men of affairs think about the people who make set speeches in committee you will realize how the preacher loses power whose sermons are felt to be productions, or lessons, or speeches, rather than real acts of…

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