(January 24, 2013 at 10:42 am)Celi Wrote: I think I am beginning to see what you mean, though. While you don't believe that nothing bad ever happens in that sense, you mean that nothing is truly bad because ultimately God is in control and he pilots the world like a well-oiled machine, never doing anything that's ultimately bad for us even if he does do things that we wouldn't want him to. Do I have that right? If so, I guess I can see how that might be comforting, but not to me personally.
Ultimately, God, and therefore good, rules. In the end, God engineers everything to his own just and good conclusion, because God is just and good.
Some things, and some people are very bad. Really bad. Things are only bad from a perspective. You couldn't call the natural order bad, but you might experience pain and suffer as a consequence of natural forces in action.
People are bad for a reason. The consequence is other people getting hurt, and without some resolve, passing on that hurt by being bad themselves.
I don't see how you would ever find this comforting... you'd have to understand it first! The point to me isn't " comfort " lol. The point is that it gets me the most out if life. I can very effectively deal with problems that would limit my full enjoyment of life. That's the only point in being a Christian.