Sometimes in life, we can find ourselves questioning why calamities like cancer and vehicular homicides take place. Why would God “let” these things happen.
Well, God actually isn’t the god of this world and so doesn’t “let” things happen as if He causes men to disobey or causes the god of this world to inflict pain and death.
Adam brought death to all men, which is the curse of returning to the dust, and sin entered into the world for the first time as a result of disobedience to the tiny law at that time, which was to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (See Romans 5:12, 20) about “entering”.
Since then, the law expanded to 613 commandments of which Jesus was obedient to and so fulfilled the law.
Horrible things happen because the first man Adam let sin enter into the world and Satan took control of the world…so much so that he has blinded the minds of them which believe not.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
*Now, some may read the old testament (which consists of Genesis through the first part of Acts since Jesus lived under the law) and declare that God worked with the Israelites to kill their enemies on the battlefield, which is true.
- First, we must look at the world that was once “under the law” and so realize that God was not dealing with the world under grace as we know it – nobody living today knows what it’s like to live under the law since it was before our time (which is our first observation that we can hardly point a finger at God because we have zero experience under the law)
- Grace and truth came “through” Jesus Christ.
- Under the law, the world was guilty before God and wasn’t yet reconciled to Him by the death of his Son.
- Under that system, men trembled in fear that they would provoke the wrath of God since they were uncovered, which is a separate philosophy from the man invented philosophy that states God was cruel for helping Israel destroy her enemies.
- No, men were cruel and God acted under the law to levy verdicts on a world not reconciled.
- Romans 5:18 reveals that all men were under judgment, which then led to condemnation
- Thankfully, we are now under the free gift of grace rather than judgment – the judgment free zone is the reality today that didn’t begin in a gym
- This is why God has been verbally silent since that pivotal inflection when Jesus was cursed on a tree – we don’t hear of God helping people win on the battlefield today – we don’t hear of God doing anything whatsoever, because the entire world has been made reconciled and Jesus actually finished the work.
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