The darkness in this world is the reason why many people don't believe in God. They feel like if there was a God, then he would save all the bad in the world. What they don't realize is their presupposing that God is good and able to save the world. Wouldn't this mean that they have some kind of belief in him? Also, what are they comparing bad to? Who determines the degreeof what's bad and what's good? They are basing their thoughts on a morality that does not exist. If morality begins with someone, it must logically end with that person. Morality has to come from an unchanging source in order for it to be logically consistent.
Unfortunately, like Professor Corrigan states, darkness often hides in our daily lives, espescially the lives of Christians. Which should be a complete oxymoron since our daily goal should be a to bring light into this dark word. How are we going to shine light whenever we're filled with darkness. What if we walked around with this illumated light that was a silhoutte of our body in which the brightness was determined by our spirtual walk and how "holy," we lived our lives. Wouldn't that make more Christians think twice about their actions and more importantly how they treated people? No wonder there are so many non believers in this world.They witness firsthand believers that say one thing but the light reflecting from them does not match up. Just because the body of Christ is supposed to reach out to people in rhw darkness and bring them to light, doesn't mean we have to live they way that they do. We can still relate to their experiences and not have to acually participate.
Darkness is going to be prevelant in this world no matter how many lights are accessible. The choices that are taken by humans on a daily basis bring out this darkness and pain that is prevalent. Why do people blame that on God, why can't they blame it on the people that cause the darkness and pain. Why don't they blame themselves?
You said: "Why don't they blame themselves?" But why would/should someone blame themselves if they got cancer? Or for a hurricane? Or for any of most of the things that cause darkness?
ReplyDeleteYou said: "We can still relate to their experiences and not have to acually participate." Amen. Though, we need to acknowledge those ways in which we do participate, willingly or not. Christians don't do anyone a favor by pretending that they are perfect (or even above average). We've got to embrace reality: that's the only realm in where God's grace operates.