31st March 2003, 9:30 PM
Here's how I see it (sort of):
God knows what we're going to do. God can influence our decisions, but he doesn't make them. We get to make our own choices, but regardless of what we do God has known that all along. As a result, everything has already happened and has yet to happen at the same time. Remember, if God is outside of time then he isn't constrained by it, so to him it probably appears that everything happens at once.
So we get to make choices, but God knows the outcomes already and everything ends up okay in the end! (<---- dumbed down)
Oh yeah, I forgot. Darunia, God does as he pleases; he doesn't have to answer to you, me, or anyone else. Therefore, we really can't say why he would destroy Ninevah and not more recent evils. But there's a reason. There's a reason for everything. Some reasons are really insignificant, but something is greater than nothing.
However, if I were to venture a guess, I would say that God isn't as much allowing evil to live as he is allowing evil to run its course, perhaps to make some sort of point.
God knows what we're going to do. God can influence our decisions, but he doesn't make them. We get to make our own choices, but regardless of what we do God has known that all along. As a result, everything has already happened and has yet to happen at the same time. Remember, if God is outside of time then he isn't constrained by it, so to him it probably appears that everything happens at once.
So we get to make choices, but God knows the outcomes already and everything ends up okay in the end! (<---- dumbed down)
Oh yeah, I forgot. Darunia, God does as he pleases; he doesn't have to answer to you, me, or anyone else. Therefore, we really can't say why he would destroy Ninevah and not more recent evils. But there's a reason. There's a reason for everything. Some reasons are really insignificant, but something is greater than nothing.
However, if I were to venture a guess, I would say that God isn't as much allowing evil to live as he is allowing evil to run its course, perhaps to make some sort of point.