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Good God in an Unfair World - Part Two: Grappling to Understand

Good God in an Unfair World - Part Two:  Grappling to Understand

Our world is undeniably and self-evidently unfair. For the unbeliever, this is just the way it is in a godless universe—it’s what we would expect. For those of us who believe there is an Infinite, Personal, and Holy God, this is troubling. Since we believe that God is truly and fully good, why isn’t His creation, especially since He declared it was very good (Genesis 1:31), very good? Yes, it’s troubling; it’s morally troubling. And so, we grapple to understand, and faith compels us to do so…

Good God in an Unfair World - Part One: The Faith to Question

Good God in an Unfair World - Part One:  The Faith to Question

One of the first sentences, almost all of us utter in life, ends with an exclamation mark: “That’s not fair!” We have a deeply engrained sense of fairness, and object when we sense unfairness—especially when we see ourselves on the short end of the stick. What we all can see is that this world is filled with unfairness, and it bothers us. It bothers us, not just because unfairness seems unfortunate, but because it strikes us as morally wrong. And so, we ask, “Where is God?”

God in the Storm

God in the Storm

Statement of Problem

Hurricane Ian, once again, raises the most difficult question that people of faith in the God of the Bible face. Given that nothing produces nothing, defending the idea of a Personal, Infinite, Creator is fairly straightforward. The most difficult question we face does not involve God and science, but God and suffering.