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!! The Problem of Pain & Suffering
/Compiled by Tom Daugherty/
On Aug. 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM, Hiroshima awoke after a restless night of alarms.
* 9,000 meters above bomb - nicknamed “Fat Boy”—detached from the “Enola Gay” and glided down
* Forty-three seconds later a purple flash dazzled the city.
* A 150-meter-wide ball of fire engulfed the center,
* 9,000 degree centigrade (16,000F+) heat rolled across the city at 4 kilometers per second (8,600+mph),
* Explosion equal to 20,000 tons of TNT
* Then the “atomic mushroom” cloud rose above the city, which had already become a desert.
* Then the “black rain” began to fall.
* Estimates vary between 100,000 and 200,000 dead at Hiroshima and 30,000 to 70,000 at Nagasaki.
- Thirty afterward, victims of contamination were still falling at the rate of 3,000 per year.[1]
*Where is God when?*
*Natural disasters* – Recent tsunami (Thailand-2004), cyclone (Myanmar-‘08), flooding (New Orleans)
*Terrorism* – twin towers, middle east & Palestine.
*Inhumanity* – Sudan, Darfur, Rwanda.
*Martyrdom – *Did you know more Christians martyred in last 100yrs than previous 1900yrs combined?
On a more personal note- *Where is God when?*
*Racism*
*Drug Abuse & Alcoholism* - is found to be breaking up marriages, impoverishing families, and displacing children from homes.
[Alcoholism] is blamed for 80,000 deaths a year, including half of all traffic fatalities and homicides, and a fourth of all suicides.[2]
*Where is God when?*
*Broken families*.
*Strife & Bitterness* between us…Sometimes till we kill each other!
*OR* – Perhaps even worse…
*Where is God when we just ignore people and let them die?*
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*Is the Deist right and there is a God but He is distant and doesn’t really care?*
*Around 300 BC.
Epicurius stated the problem of evil:*
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If an all-good and all-powerful God exists, He would create a world with no evil.
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Evil does exist.
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Therefore, God does not exist.
*How would you answer that?* *You know, as Christians We should AND NEED to be able to! *
>>Pardon while I go on a hobbyhorse rant here:
*Biblical Commands:*
*1 Pet.
3:15 –* /“always /be/ ready to /give/ a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you”/
*2 Tim.
4:2-3 –* /“*Be ready* (instant) in season /and/ out of season… For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine”/
*1 Thess.
5:21 – */“*Test all things*; hold fast what is good”/
*Acts 17:11 – *Bereans called /*“more noble”*/ because used minds and searched scriptures to find out truth.
*2 Pet.
3:17-18 – “*Beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
But *grow in /grace/, and in the /knowledge/ of our Lord* and Saviour Jesus Christ...”
*The strength of our experience with God goes hand-in-hand with our knowledge of Him.*
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*I’d rather have relationship over knowledge BUT Knowledge makes for a richer experience*
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*EX.
– *Knowing a person involves knowing about them!
Aquaintance vs. friend or spouse.
- Biblical to “know” a woman tied to intimacy of sexual experience.
*Do we know our God well enough to rationally answer to the problem of pain & suffering?*
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1. *The premise (the first part of Epicurious's argument) assumes too much!*
\\ The problem is Epicurious claims to *know* what God "*would*" do.
Self-declaring what is right!
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* Playing God
* Telling God what is right?
*How can we know what God "would" do?*
He tells us – The BIBLE!!!
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*How does the Bible answer THE PROBLEM OF PAIN & SUFFERING?*
*READ:* Rm. 8:18-25
#. *How did we get here in the first place?
- The tie between freedom and love.*
* *Most of our problems are our fault* \\ Gen. 2:17-/*“not to eat or you will die”*/ Then *Cursed*, *Kicked out of garden* and *Death* \\ *… NOT meant to die!* \\
* *But what about natural disasters?*
*OT Examples: Jer 12:4 –* /“How long will the land mourn, And the herbs of every field wither?
The beasts and birds are consumed, For the wickedness of those who dwell there”/ (23:10; Hos.4:3)
*Vs.
22* - /“the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs”/
*Sin affects more than just man—The whole creation suffers!*
Could this be why we have Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis????
*Vs.
22* (again) - *“Birth Pangs” *Alludes to pain & JOY of childbirth!
\\ o *Why didn't God make a perfect creation without sin?* \\ *HE DID!* Gn. 1:9, 12, 18, 21, 25 - *Good* 31 - *Very Good*.
\\ /“you shall surely die”/ *Death was NOT God’s ultimate purpose for us.*
\\ o *Well why didn't God create /ONLY/ those who He knew would follow Him? \\ ASK:* *Did God give us free will?*
- Adam was given a choice to obey God with Tree of knowledge
- Adam was also given Freedom in his dominion over the earth
*Answer: *The question *[bullit]* assumes we are capable of sinless living.
The Bible says, *"all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."* - Rm. 3:23.
And *"there is none righteous, no not one."*
– Rm. 3:10. 1 Jn.
1:8 – *“If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves” *We will all ultimately disobey God.
Even worse, Rm. 6:23 tells us */"the wages of sin is death"/*/./
\\ o *Why does God give us free will?* \\ - Otherwise we would be robots, conditioned to do His every whim.
*-* If this were true, evil would be eradicated from the world indeed!
- BUT choice is a necessary part of experiencing real love.
Would real love exist if we didn't have a choice to love or not to love? *Stepford Wives Movie*
- BUT, with that free will, we choose to disobey God and suffer the consequences.
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*God's Fullfilled Promises.*
o *Well, if we messed up then why wouldn’t a loving God fix it?*
\\ HE DID, or at least He will depending on whether your using God's perspective or our human perspective.
o *Why not fix it immediately*
| *READ: * | Gal.
4:4 – “fullness of time” for payment for sin through Christ.
| | | *Eph.
1:10 – “fullness of time” *for our inheritance of new creation.
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*Example:*William Hines tells of "a man who had studied the Second World War in depth, that once the Allies landed on the continent of Europe the war was over.
I looked at him a little puzzled, so he continued by saying there was no question that the firepower, manpower and military intelligence of the Allies would eventually conquer Hitler and his armies.
It was just a matter of going through the process of completing what was bound to happen."
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