PART 5 OF “OUR ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT GOD”
March 13, 2010
By Kevin M
“There are starving children in the world, so how can there be a God?”.
Have you ever heard that question, or a variation of it? Have you maybe wondered about it yourself?
If you’re not a believer, rest assured that even believers wrestle with this question. We see the same injustice and human misery that everyone else does, and yes, we struggle to come to terms with the existence of a loving God in the midst of it. But while as believers we may not fully understand what often looks from a human standpoint to be an apparent contradiction, we don’t allow it to be an obstacle to faith either.
That faith isn’t an abdication of rational thinking, but a willingness to accept some self-evident truths, including this one:
A true God does not exist to serve man
