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RE: If there is a God, why do so many bad things happen? @ecotrain QOTW
Question, my dear friend. If none of the evil is God's fault, do you at least acknowledge that all the evil is done...is only performed if God says it's okay?
Good day sir @johndoer123. Pardon me sir and please correct me if I misunderstood your question. As how I understand it, you are asking if all the evil things that happened are because God says it's okay?
Saying "it's okay" and "allowing things" to happen are both different.
Saying "it's okay" even if it's evil will also mean that God agree with evil works. He is the God of love and He will never like any trace of evilness.
On the other hand, "allowing things" to happen doesn't mean that God agree in whatever we do especially if it's evil.
He is not yet putting an end to our wrongdoings because He is patient with us, He desires all to repentance.
Allowing things to happen is different from approving things to happen.
For example, a parent will allow his children to play with their toys and mess it around in the living room. Allowing then doesn't mean that the parent is please with all the mess. He just love his children that he still giving them time to play and mess around.
And just like in real life, time will come when it's times up. The parent will clean the mess and take his children to shower to clean them up.
God will also do the same, He still giving us the freedom to do what we want. But time will come when the times up. He will act in the end, to end the sufferings.
Thank you sir for this deep talk. Have a great day! :)
In the book of Job, Satan is not allowed to perform any evil(here on Earth) without God first granting permission to him to do so. And God does grant that permission. Job is then tormented several ways by Satan, with God's permission. All this torment is done for God to prove a point to Satan. In context to your above mentioned analogy, to me, that is like a parent(God) allowing an evil person to hurt their children...just to see if the child will still love the parent....your thoughts?
Greetings sir @johndoer123. Job was a rich man who's very faithful to God. Satan raised another accusation to this part, he said that Job is only faithful because Job has everything in life and once Job lost everything, he will hate God.
And noticed that God told Satan to do everything but never kill Job. Job lost his children and he got very sick, but in end, he is still faithful to God. And Satan was proved wrong in his own accusation.
I guess the most appropriate term to use is allowing instead of permitting.
Allowing (allow) is letting things to happen even if you are not please to see it.
Permitting (permission) is letting things to happen because you are please to see it.
Job's case is still happening to us. Satan is still messing up with people, he will do everything to make us hate God.
And soon, Satan's time will be over.
Have a wonderful day sir! God bless you. :)