responded, “(Do you think) those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them . . . were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did.”
Jesus did not say, “Hey, its just one of those things. Stuff happens.” And He was not saying, “Those people who were killed were just as good as you.” He was saying, “You are every bit as sinful as they were!”
Yes. Bad things happen because there is evil in the world and sin has its consequences.
But the unbeliever still has every right to hit me with this: “Okay, so your God says that the penalty for sin is death and we’re all sinners. Doesn’t that mean that He should have hit us all just as hard as Haiti?”
And I answer, “Yes . . . The question is not ‘Why did God allow this to happen to Haiti.’ The question is ‘Why did He not allow it to happen to us, too?’”
With sincere apologies to skeptics, atheists, and agnostics, I cannot explain why our loving God has spared us. And I am left on my knees, trembling in fearsome thanks that God has not given me what my deeds truly deserve. And I hang onto the fact that though the wages of sin is death – and my day is coming – the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23b) My all loving God – in spite of my evil ways – gave me a way out. He went to the Cross and paid my well-earned and eternal death-penalty for me. Mr. Robertson’s, too.
No. I cannot explain a love like that.
Richard Jarzynka is the author of “Blessed with Bipolar” He has used the “symptoms” of the disorder to help him counsel clients; run a marathon; grow in his christian faith; and earn a masters degree in psychology, a scholarship to law school, and a football scholarship. He blogs at Bipolar Richard’s Almanac
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