We've all tried to make life work without God. Their story is the story of all of us, isn't it? Who hasn't said - if not audibly at least in their hearts - God, I think I can do this without you. And this world system - with all of its faults - came as a result of the choice they made. They consumed the notion that there was something more valuable in existence than God himself, something more valuable than having a personal relationship with God. For Adam and Eve sort of hoped that they could become like God, without God. Remember the story of Adam and Eve? They ate the "forbidden fruit." That fruit was the idea that they could ignore what God said or gave them, and strike out on life apart from God. God doesn't budge - he doesn't change things right now - because he's giving us what we asked for: a world where we get to treat him as though he is absent and unnecessary. Our hope is that putting a guilt trip on him will make him change the way he's doing things.īut he doesn't seem to budge. We say this hoping that God will then change his position on the matter. If he were, this world wouldn't be the way it is!" We say, "God can't be all-powerful and all-loving. What or who could make this world different than the way it is? What or who could guarantee that life is pain-free, for everyone, all the time? But it's not an answer that most people like to hear: the world is the way it is because it's the world that we, in a sense, have asked for. There is an answer to the WHY question, found in the Bible. This isn't how life's supposed to be! So, WHY do bad things happen? Then we're likely to think, Something isn't right here. That is, until another tragedy hits, another incongruence. But then we can often sink back into the denial. We're so busy living our lives we rarely stop and wonder WHY?īut then something happens to wake us up. Subconsciously, we probably ask ourselves questions like these quite often. How do we explain what we see in this world? Terrorist attacks, sex slavery, racism, world hunger?
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