It’s been a disastrous few weeks, and we have the pictures to prove it.
Etched into the global consciousness is one image after another, detailing the horror of Myanmar and China. We have cumulative death tolls as the punctuation to so many conversations.
This is shock and awe.
In the midst of this, there is the deep theological question that has to be asked: Where is God? It was the same question that most people asked after the Towers fell, after Katrina, after Bangladesh. Has He left the building? Are we unattended? Is He, as some “Deists” would describe, a blind watchmaker, that wound the world like a pocket-watch, and simply walked away, waiting for the end of days?
And if we don’t ascribe to that definition of Who He is, but rather think the reverse - that He is personal, involved, compassionate and explicit - then how is it that He allows for such suffering in the very things He created?
I’m open to a conversation.
18/05/2008 at 8:51 am Permalink
It’s a good question…one I have no answer for.
19/05/2008 at 3:12 pm Permalink
The “Sovernty of God” is a “christian-eze” term that few really want to understand for the gravity of its implications. Christians say that thier god is an “awesome” god, and that He is the source of all good things. The kicker is that our concept of good and bad, fair and unjust are relative to the Source. This means that if God’s character examplified evil, then evil would become good - because his character defines good.
So what does all this meta-physical jibba-jabba have to do with current events. Well, basically what tools do have to question the Source that He did not give you. All you can do be be in “awe” of the “sum” of His work. We live and die for this Glory in perfect justice, even though your imprefect perception can not fathom it.
It would be like an ant objecting to what is going on in the UN.
12/11/2008 at 10:13 pm Permalink
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