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*Why Does God Allow Evil? *
*Psalm 34:8  **B** 4-22-07*
*On the occasion of VT mass murders and Local Teacher killing Live-in & her 4 y.o.
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The university professor challenged his students with this question.
"Did God create everything that exists?"
A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"
 
"God created everything?"
The professor asked.
"Yes sir", the student replied.
The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil."
The student became quiet before such an answer.
The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question, professor?"
"Of course," replied the professor.
*The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?*"
 
"What kind of question is this?
Of course it exists.
Have you never been cold?"
The students snickered at the young man's question.
The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist.
According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat.
Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy.
Absolute zero (‑460 F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature.
Cold does not exist.
We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."
*The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"*
The professor responded, "Of course it does."
\\ The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either.
Darkness is in reality the absence of light.
Light we can study, but not darkness.
In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color.
You cannot measure darkness.
A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it.
How can you know how dark a certain space is?
You measure the amount of light present.
Isn't this correct?
Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."
*Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"*
Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said.
We see it everyday.
It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man.
It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world.
These manifestations are nothing else but evil.
To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself.
*Evil is simply the absence of God*.
It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God.
God did not create evil.
Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart.
It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."
*The professor sat down.
The young man's name ‑‑ Albert Einstein*
 
 
If God is good, why is there so much evil in the world?
Why do we have war and murder, atrocity after atrocity, famine after famine?
Why do innocent children die at the hands of cruel men?
Why do the ravages of war tear families apart in death and imprisonment?
Why did a someone choose to set a bomb off last week that killed over 200 people in a market place, . .
..Why did a young man only 23 years of age senselessly take the lives of 32 innocent people and why did a young teacher in our school system take the life of a young woman and the life of a 4 year old?
Why, why, why?
 
Most, if not all of us have asked this question when faced with pain, suffering, or tragedy.
And while I don=t pretend to know everything there is to know about this, I do intend to at least attempt to give us some direction in our thinking about this very important issue.
And I hope that we will leave here today with a clearer perspective not only about the problem of evil and suffering, but more importantly, a clearer perspective of the sovereignty of God.
 
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Evil*
 
There is a line of questioning that goes like this:
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A good God would destroy evil.
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An all‑powerful God could destroy evil.
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Evil is not destroyed.
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Therefore, there cannot possibly be such a good and powerful God.
And on the surface, to someone not grounded in Scripture who has experienced some form of tragedy, this would seem logical.
After all, if God were good and all‑powerful, wouldn=t it stand to reason that He would destroy the evil that plagues our world?
Then why doesn=t He? Could it be that He is not really a good God?
Let me read Psalm 34:8:
 
*/‑Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.‑/*
Many other verses tell of the goodness of God.
In fact, the whole Bible is an outline of God=s goodness in His dealings with man.
Could it be that He is not all‑powerful?
I don=t think so.
Listen to Isaiah 40:25‑26:
 
‑ATo whom will you compare Me? Or who is My equal?@ says the Holy One.
Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name.
Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.‑
I would venture to say that the Creator of the Universe is plenty powerful, wouldn=t you?
 
*BUT, did you know there are some things God CANNOT do?*
 
*Wait just a minute, Preacher!
Didn**=t you just get done saying God is all‑powerful?*
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*Yes, but hang on.
Let me list a few things God cannot do, and you will see where we are going in a bit.*
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*First, God cannot lie, according to Numbers 23:19.
And James tells us that God cannot be tempted, nor can he tempt people to sin.*
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*In other words, God cannot do anything out of His character.
The reason God cannot lie is because He is truth.
He cannot sin or tempt to sin because He is pure.*
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*He also can**=t undo the past, create a square triangle, or make what is false, true.*
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*So what do we make of all this?
God is good and He is all‑powerful to perform any and all things within His character, and yet we have evil.
Why*?
 
\\ *LISTEN CLOSELY TO THIS NEXT SENTENCE, BECAUSE IT FORMS THE BASIS OF THE ANSWER, AND I WILL EXPLAIN IT IN MORE DETAIL AS WE CONTINUE.
THIS IS GOING TO BE A LITTLE ON THE THEOLOGICAL SIDE OF THINGS, SO PLEASE TRY TO TRACK WITH ME.*
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