Comments on: Our Problem With God

By: Prodigal

Prodigal — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:27:36 +0000

Poor ole’ St. Nicholas…he seems to get the proverbial “short end of the stick” every time, when compared to the modern “gimmie-god” who we’ll call “Lord Vendo-matic”, as to give a much earned respite to St. Nick. Bravo, on your article. Obviously, we humans, are not God; or I know I’m not, at least. Yet, St. Paul does allude that we are the “Body of Christ”…”filled with all the fullness of God”…”grow to the full stature of Christ”, etc. And that’s just in Paul’s letters, not to mention St Peter’s “…that we are partakers of the Divine Nature”, etc. “Holy Moses!”(with all due respect to Moses). God, in Christ, has made us not only in the “Imago De”, but also makes us “joint heirs with Christ’. That’s is mind-blowing, to say the least. “We have this treasure(Christ and ALL that he is) in earthern pottery, that the sufficiency of the power may be of God and not of us”. Very humbling, indeed! The Gift of all gifts. The devotees of Lord Vendo-matic really have no clue as to who the gracious Giver is and who that Gift is for. These are some of the things I think about when I am prone to give myself a “pity-party” in (dis) honor of how unfair my life seems to be at times.
Thanks for bringing us back to “Souls-ville” when we tend to take the detour on “Ehrman Road”.

Peace.

By: Yaholo

Yaholo — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:46:13 +0000

@Judyon

Thank you. Just to be clear, I don’t think all disease comes from sin, but some do. Liver disease can come from drinking too much, STDs most often come from sexual immorality, lung cancer from smoking, etc. Obviously there are always exceptions, but sin does bare it’s own consequences with. And of course, we can get sick with disease that has nothing to do with sin at all.

By: Judy

Judy — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:26:26 +0000

I enjoyed reading this except for one thing.
I disagree that my cancer could have come from my own sins.My God brings love not pain

By: E. I. Sanchez

E. I. Sanchez — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:50:57 +0000

Alvin Plantinga's God Freedom and Evil and C. S. Lewis' The Problem of Pain solve the intellectual problem of evil. No serious, respectable Philosopher, denies the existence of God on the basis of Evil. Ehrman, of course, ain't no philosopher. He's a Distinguished Professor, but no Philosopher.

By: Dangerous Christian

Dangerous Christian — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:01:17 +0000

God is not our celestial bellhop or Amazon.com. In fact, it’s the reverse. We are to be open for God’s use and His glory.

If Jesus, who had fellowship par excellence with God, was open to our Father’s will, then who are we?

As long as we live as carnal Christians we’ll have this “problem”. But once we become truly spiritual, it’ll fall by the wayside as we live fully Christ.

Peace!

By: Paul Maurice Martin

Paul Maurice Martin — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:42:18 +0000

I agree: the problem of evil, given the most popularized conception of God, is a logical contradiction that can’t be resolved.

Also, I’ve had that same thought occur to me – that these days, some Christians appear to have confused God with Santa Claus! I think it first occured to me when I came across “prosperity theology” online.

Ugh…