BIBLICAL RATIONALITY

Paul Harvey in the year 1975 stated this "If I were the devil … If I were the Prince of Darkness, I’d want to engulf the whole world in darkness. And I’d have a third of its real estate, and four-fifths of its population, but I wouldn’t be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree — Thee. So I’d set about however necessary to take over the United States. I’d subvert the churches first — I’d begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: ‘Do as you please. To the young, I would whisper that ‘The Bible is a myth.’ I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what’s bad is good, and what’s good is ‘square.’ And the old, I would teach to pray, after me, ‘Our Father, which art in Washington… And then I’d get organized. I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting, so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting. I’d threaten TV with d...

 This is a difficult question, primarily because of the motives of those asking this question. So I shall name them, and then answer the questions to the best of my understanding. The first group is those who are angry at God, for the death of a loved one or a series of unfortunate events; unlike others, I do not come here to condemn but to try to understand and give a valid explanation. Others of a similar subset are angry, that a good God would allow suffering to exist. Others have been convinced of evolutionary theory, are naturalistic, and find the idea of the supernatural absurd. Some have lost hope in God completely. First, we must examine why bad things happen to good people. First of all, in biblical references, there are no good people, every person born sins, and dies; sometimes we die, because of other people's sins. The only one that is good is God. A good God who wants our genuine love has given man free will. The angels have this free will, too. A third of them fell u...