EVIL IN A WORLD WHERE GOD IS LOVING

The question: How will man explain evil in a world where God is loving? has been fatally polluting the minds of the world.  The atheists, the skeptics, the agnostics and the natural man finds it hard to believe that there is a God because of this unanswered question.  A derivative question on this is: If there is a God why would he allow mayhem, pillage, murders, rape, wars and genocide?

The mindset of the people asking these questions reflect where they are coming from.  They come from the land where no knowledge is! These are ignorant and if they will continue to reject the knowledge of the Holy it will mean confusion and departure from the Truth.

The truth remains steadfast that God created man in his image.  Creating man, God gave man his freewill just like the angels in heaven.  This freewill God will never intrude but always respect purposely for the world to continue to go around and live as they were blessed to multiply and to have dominion.

The reason why evil thrive and flourish is because of the freewill of man: for it is written, there is no just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not.  Further, Solomon testified saying, Man at his best estate is all together vanity: man is a beast.  Jesus affirmed saying, there is no one good! Knowing this truth, it is concluded that man is brutish and vain ergo his will is devilish and deadly.

Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Proverbs 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.       

Proverbs 14:2 He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.

Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

Proverbs 16:7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Now, sin separates man from God and hereby evil, violence, curse and corruption come.  Living in such a willful and sinful circumstance is a world of trouble and tribulation.  

THE STORY OF THE WILLFUL AND SINFUL KING AHAB IN TROUBLE

1 Kings 18:17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?

1 Kings 18:18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.

THE STORY OF ISRAEL WHO CAME OUT OF EGYPT IN TROUBLE BECAUSE OF SIN

Psalms 78:30 They were not estranged from their lust.  But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

Psalms 78:31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

Psalms 78:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

Psalms 78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

THE ROOT OF THE TROUBLES OF THIS WORLD IS SOLELY MAN

2 Thessalonians 1:6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

Galatians 6:7      Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

See verse do unto others as you want others do unto you.

It should be clear now that man is the root cause of the evil not God.  There is just a law that works in this world set by God for man to take heed and obey that he may have peace with God.  Unless a man is reconciled with God peace and quiet and rest will never come.

Now, the will of God is for man to be Godly, meaning, man must live a perfect life that man may be able to present himself a living sacrifice before God and be accepted to be his righteous servant.  Man when he is called is called for to serve God and not just for salvation.  Having an eternal life is to be perfect for only in perfection is a man being converted.  This is the reason why Peter was never converted all the time while Jesus was with them: he was not yet perfected for Perfection is the stage of being born in the water and the spirit.  Perfection is the stage where the Spirit of God is the one moving a man.  Perfection is not the stage of a babe in Christ.

THE BABES IN CHRIST

Hebrews 5:12  For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

Hebrews 5:13     For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 

Hebrews 5: 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

The meat of them who are full of age in Christ is to doing the will of God.  A condition where one is not able to do his own will but is selfless.  The One who is born in the Spirit is like the wind which bloweth where it listeth.  Anyone who is still exercising his own will (freewill) is never born of the Spirit.  This is the reason why the world is in trouble.  The will of man going against the will of God will never produce a world of peace and love.

John 21:18    Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.

John 3:8     The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

In conclusion, if man were to walk with God and obey his voice with a perfect heart this world would have long enjoyed the blessings from God which fruit is Love, Joy, and Peace.  God loves this world and is even kind to the evil and the unthankful.  God’s will is always good to man but man is selfwilled, stiffnecked, and continue to rebel against God.  Man refuses to heed the calling and teachings of God, worse, there are no teachers of the TRUTH and of the Laws of God today.  Consequently, the world is in chaos not because God wanted it to happen.  Everything is the fault and sin of man against God the reason why the world is filled with violence and corruption.

2 Chronicles 15:3 Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

One should understand the verse above that Israel never lost its books which is the Old Testament and yet they have come to a point where they are without a true God, without a teaching priest, and without law!  Even so, today the same is happening to us.  We have teachers and pastors and evangelists in abound but these are never able to come to the knowledge of Truth.  They only have the form but these deny the power of God: the power that can make a man perfect; the power that can cast away the evil in man (ourselves); the power to overcome the world by the blood of Jesus and the word of the testimony, among others. 

2 Timothy 3:5      Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Romans 2:20     An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

The admonition below speaks of the hypocrisies of the Jews going astray!  Biblical history reveals to us how the true church struggle against the people who think they have the right interpretation of the Laws written and are in the truth when in fact they are not.    

Romans 2:17  Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

Romans 2:18  And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

Romans 2:19  And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

Romans 2:20  An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

Romans 2:21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

Romans 2:22  Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

Romans 2:23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

Romans 2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

Therefore, humble and pray and seek the face of God and turn from the wicked ways so that God may hear from heaven and bless us again as we are reconciled to him in Spirit and in Truth.