Smyrna Christian Church -- Lee Delbridge, Minister
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The Creation Controversy
Part II

If God is a good God and if He is all-powerful and if He created the world, then why are there so many faults in it? For instance: why are there tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, forest fires started by lightening and animals killing other animals for food? Why are babies born with deformities and disabilities? Why are there so many wars? Why is there so much sickness and suffering and death? Why is it easier to grow weeds than it is to grow vegetables or flowers? If an all-powerful good God created everything that exists, then why is there so much evil in the world? Why does God allow it? Why doesn’t God do something about it? These are legitimate questions. Let’s discuss “why” there is evil in a world created by a holy and righteous God.

  1. BECAUSE GOD CREATED MAN WITH FREE WILL
  2. BECAUSE OF THE “CURSE” THAT CAME AS A RESULT OF SIN
  3. BECAUSE GOD’S SOLUTION HAD NOT YET BEEN FULLY APPLIED

If God is a good God and if He is all-powerful and if He created the world, then why are there so many faults in it? Those faults are in our world because (1) God created man with free will, (2) the curse that resulted from man’s sin and (3) God’s solution has not been fully applied yet. Evil, tragedy, sickness, suffering and death are all in the world because of sin. God has the solution to the sin problem and one day all those evil, terrible things will be gone. God’s answer to the sin problem is Jesus. Have you accepted Him as the answer to your personal sin problem?

© 2002 Lee Delbridge

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