Posted: Nov 28, 2018 8:28 am
Fallible wrote:Wortfish wrote:Animavore wrote:
So if God isn't powerless against the forces of nature then why won't he do anything about the negative effects of natural selection?
Also if he is the author of the forces of nature, and you say that one of those forces - natural selection - is to blame for leukaemia, then how is God not to blame?
No. God is not powerless but neither is he free to obstruct the natural order that he has created. Everything falls within his providential plan, and this included natural disasters and diseases. My point is that he created everything good and whole, but the inherent imperfection in Nature is to blame for much of the suffering we experience, including our sinful ways.Isaiah 45:7 King James Version (KJV) wrote:
7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
"Lord of Light! Come to us in our darkness. We offer you these false gods. Take them and cast your light upon us. For the night is dark and full of terrors."
―Melisandre prays to R'hllor