By Christopher J. H. Wright
If we're sincere, we need to admit that there are lots of issues we do not comprehend approximately God. we don't have ultimate solutions to the deep difficulties of lifestyles, and those that say they do are most likely dwelling in some extent of fantasy. There are parts of poser in our Christian religion that lie past the keenest scholarship or perhaps the main profound non secular workouts. for plenty of humans, those difficulties bring up such a lot of questions and uncertainties that religion itself turns into a fight, and the very individual and personality of God are referred to as into query. Chris Wright encourages us to resist the constraints of our knowing and to recognize the discomfort and grief they could frequently reason. yet while, he desires us with the intention to say, just like the psalmist in Psalm seventy three: 'But that is alright. God is eventually accountable and that i can belief him to place issues correct. in the meantime, i'll remain on the subject of my God, make him my safe haven, and move on telling of his deeds.'
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A devastating cyclone rips into southern Myanmar and obliterates whole villages in the Irrawaddy delta and leaves millions uprooted. Such things fill us with awe and dread. They wreak suffering on such a mammoth scale that we find it hard even to contemplate them. Or we might include that uniquely terrible pandemic of HIV-AIDS. We know that there are elements of human responsibility in the suffering of many, but there are vast numbers of people – from babies in the womb to youngsters sacrificially caring for dying relatives – who are infected or affected through no fault of their own.
Nor even just some other god. The Bible makes it very clear that we are not to fall into any kind of dualism – a good god (who made the world all nice and friendly), and an evil god (who messed it all up). Some kinds of popular folk Christianity do slide in that direction and give to Satan far more assumed power and far more obsessive attention than is warranted by the Bible. And such dualism is the meat and drink of a large amount of quasi-religious fiction, which sadly many Christians read with more frequency and more faith than their Bibles.
So I am willing to live with the understanding that the God I don’t understand has chosen not to explain the origin of evil, but rather wants to concentrate my attention on what he has done to defeat and destroy it. Now this may seem a lame response to evil. Are we merely to gag our desperate questions, accept that it’s a mystery, and shut up? Surely we do far more than that? Yes indeed. We grieve. We weep. We lament. We protest. We scream in pain and anger. ” And that brings us to our second major biblical response.