Title: WHY DOES GOD PERMIT WICKEDNESS AND SUFFERING? (Part 3)
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WHY DOES GOD PERMIT WICKEDNESS AND SUFFERING? (Part 3)
By Arthur Zulu
Does God exist? Or is he dead as some say? The answers to these
questions will help us to know why he allows wickedness and
suffering in this world.
As a starting point, note this: whatever is made requires a
maker. The chair you are sitting on now did not fall from heaven
. It was made by a carpenter. The computer from where you
downloaded this article did not happen by chance. It was made by
a genius. And the article that you are reading now did not
evolve. It has an author.
These in themselves are small things. Now, consider bigger and
more complex things. Like what? you may ask. Like the universe.
Who made it?
It is very easy to say that the universe is without cause. Think
of the order among the 100 billion stars in our galaxy, and the
100 billion galaxies in the known universe! Consider the fact
that these galaxies are arranged in clusters and super clusters.
Imagine the fact that the universe is in a constant state of
expansion, and the likelihood of other universes. Add the fact
that even now scientists are discovering new stars and galaxies
that defy their previously held opinions.
Reflecting on the order and intelligence in the universe,
proponents of the Big Bang theory have begun singing different
tunes. Asked John Glenn: “Could this have just happened? Was it
an accident that a bunch of flotsam and jetsam suddenly started
making these orbits of its own accord?” He answers his own
question: “I can’t believe that . . . . Some Power put all this
into orbit and keeps it there.”
Another scientist, Stephen W. Hawking agrees:” The more we
examine the universe, we find it is not arbitrary at all but
obeys certain well-defined laws that operate in different areas.
It seems very reasonable to suppose that there may be some
unifying principles, so that all laws are part of some bigger
law”.
Now, consider the earth -- our home, a store house of food and
“the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles” according
to Levis Thomas.
It is positioned at the right distance from the sun (to make
life possible), it revolves round the sun (to make for change of
seasons), it rotates once very 24 hours (making day and night to
happen), and it has an atmosphere (to protect us.) Was it made,
or did it come about by chance?
Well, what about the brain, which in the words of Henry F.
Osborne “is the most marvelous and mysterious object in the
whole universe”
Do you know that as you read this, some 100 million messages are
pouring into your brain every second? But how you may ask, does
it make it possible for you to focus on what you are reading
right now?
Because the brain censors incoming information and scans itself
every tenth of a second thus making it possible to focus on the
important ones. Imagine the complex electrochemical transmission
and the quadrillion connections between the 100 billion neutrons
or nerve cells in the brain. And imagine the fact that these
connections are several times more than all the communication
systems in the whole world!
Commenting on the information storage capability of the brain,
Carl Sagan said that it “would fill some twenty million volumes,
as many as in the world’s largest libraries”. Do you think that
it evolved, or was it made by a Superior Intelligence?
Said the neurosurgeon, Dr. Robert J. White: “I am left with no
choice but to acknowledge the existence of a superior intellect,
responsible for the design and development of the incredible
brain-mind relationship -- something far beyond man’s capacity
to understand . . . . I have to believe all this had an
intelligent beginning, that someone made it happen.”
Who is that Someone? He is God, the creator, the one who has no
beginning and no end. His power and intelligence is seen from
the complexity of the things he has made -- from the terrifying
cosmos to the small atom.
So since there is God, why does he permit wickedness and
suffering?
(To be continued)
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