RE: Questions for "Our Role(s) as Christians on Atheist Forums"
May 17, 2018 at 11:21 am
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2018 at 11:29 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(May 17, 2018 at 10:59 am)Hammy Wrote: Even if I were a theist I would not let the idea of God's motives being mysterious or the excuse of "free will" excuse such things as child rape.
We cannot give a better answer than the one provided by Holy Scripture. Joseph was kidnapped and left for dead in the desert only to later become the chief adviser to Pharaoh. And years later, he showed mercy on his brothers saying, "You meant it for evil but God turned it into good." This doesn't mean that God desired for Joseph's Brothers to do evil; but rather, that God was able to transform the evil choices of the brothers and turn them into good. I do not believe this is a logical conundrum. It merely reveals how someone chooses to respond to Divine Providence: either with incredulity as an excuse to reject God or by accepting the authority of God while drawing closer to the Savior in our distress.
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