Hi Girls
Thursday, September 27, 2007 ; 4:41 PM
Thursday, September 27, 2007 ; 4:41 PM
Hello People :)
Well, the exams are here and I am sure you gals must be binge-in' on your fav snacks as you hit the books! Hope you all are doing well, as I think surviving in Singapore is one thing I find admirable.
If you have followed the once-nearly-dead tagboard on the right, I accidentally invited myself to this blog, and will you gals mind a guy post? I find it really tough to think of something that is worthwhile to post. Just putting all of the girl group photos pics is not my idea of a good post.
Soooo...I gave it some thought, and I decided to use photos as part of an illustration. Of course, the photos will be about you girls.
Problem of Evil
Isn't evil a big thing in the world? People are tortured daily, unwanted babies are discarded into garbage chutes, women are viciously raped, children are put into lifelong slavery, and millions go poor and hungry. Where is God in all of this? If I can think of saving them and do so much good for them, am I better than this God?
Top-notch philosophers take this as primary evidence that a Christian God cannot exist.
If God said He was perfectly good, that means He absolutely hates all evil and is opposed to it. But God's world is plagued by evil, and people have no power to avoid the pain and suffering they have. How can a loving God allow his Creation moan and cry in pain? Is He too weak to overcome the prevalent evil in this world?
These photos are soooo nice because of free-will. We choose to love one another.
If God made the world all only good, that means I love you like paying taxes. Doesn't that suck? It will be quite robotic, and doesn't say a lot about character. Everybody loves because we can only love. Love's power is bankrupted when free-will is taken away from us.
For people to be able to love, they must have the free-will to choose evil at the same time. To really love is to step out against self-centeredness and willingly choose to love. That is the significance of love.
Unfortunately, sin is such an appealing choice and others choose evil over good. We live in a broken and sinful world. The evil is the product of choosing evil over good.
This is by no means an answer-all kind of thing, because it's quite short and there's actually a very big debate about it. I encourage all of you to refer back to the Word, or read up on other books like apologetics.
Well, I'll have to go off now and I hope I didn't bore you girls. All the best for the exams and don't forget God!
God Bless,
Joshua
'...choose for yourselves today whom you will serve...as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.' (Joshua 24:15)
Well, the exams are here and I am sure you gals must be binge-in' on your fav snacks as you hit the books! Hope you all are doing well, as I think surviving in Singapore is one thing I find admirable.
If you have followed the once-nearly-dead tagboard on the right, I accidentally invited myself to this blog, and will you gals mind a guy post? I find it really tough to think of something that is worthwhile to post. Just putting all of the girl group photos pics is not my idea of a good post.
Soooo...I gave it some thought, and I decided to use photos as part of an illustration. Of course, the photos will be about you girls.
Problem of Evil
Isn't evil a big thing in the world? People are tortured daily, unwanted babies are discarded into garbage chutes, women are viciously raped, children are put into lifelong slavery, and millions go poor and hungry. Where is God in all of this? If I can think of saving them and do so much good for them, am I better than this God?
Top-notch philosophers take this as primary evidence that a Christian God cannot exist.
If God said He was perfectly good, that means He absolutely hates all evil and is opposed to it. But God's world is plagued by evil, and people have no power to avoid the pain and suffering they have. How can a loving God allow his Creation moan and cry in pain? Is He too weak to overcome the prevalent evil in this world?
Why does God allow evil? So that photos like these can be taken:
Keyword: Free Will.
These photos are soooo nice because of free-will. We choose to love one another.
If God made the world all only good, that means I love you like paying taxes. Doesn't that suck? It will be quite robotic, and doesn't say a lot about character. Everybody loves because we can only love. Love's power is bankrupted when free-will is taken away from us.
For people to be able to love, they must have the free-will to choose evil at the same time. To really love is to step out against self-centeredness and willingly choose to love. That is the significance of love.
Unfortunately, sin is such an appealing choice and others choose evil over good. We live in a broken and sinful world. The evil is the product of choosing evil over good.
This is by no means an answer-all kind of thing, because it's quite short and there's actually a very big debate about it. I encourage all of you to refer back to the Word, or read up on other books like apologetics.
Well, I'll have to go off now and I hope I didn't bore you girls. All the best for the exams and don't forget God!
God Bless,
Joshua
'...choose for yourselves today whom you will serve...as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.' (Joshua 24:15)