Why does God allow good?

[Ivan Hlavanda]

People constantly ask why God allows evil. But no one ever asks why He allows good.

We constantly sin, and yet He is loving and kind. We constantly sin, but He judges no one (even though we constantly judge Him), so we can all come to Him and repent, and have eternal life.

We constantly mock Him, yet He brings the sun, the rain and gives us fruitful ground so we can have food. He gives us air to breath, He gives heartbeat to our hearts. He blesses us with families, with relationship, even though many will never thank Him. He gave material for houses and wisdom to builders so we have somewhere to live, but no one ever cares.

All the good comes from God, He loves us with pure love, yet we do nothing, but evil. We know He cannot lie, but we do not trust Him. We know He is all powerful, yet we depend on ourselves rather than Him.

No one loves us more than God, yet we are most evil towards Him, and yet He still loves us despite this.

He forgives our sins freely, yet it costed Him everything, He gave His life for us. Honestly, what more do we want from God? He sent His Son to bring us back to be in loving relationship with Him, but what to we do? Constantly sin, mock Him, do evil, say there is no God, worship idols. God's love cannot be comprehended, how can He love us so much? Just how?

The Son of God comes to Earth and all He does is good to us, heal us and what do we do? Call Him demon, crazy, mock Him, crucify Him. Yes we all crucified Him with our sins, we are all guilty.

Why doesn't God just throw us all into hell? At least no one will sin against Him, no one will mock His Holy name.

I can at least understand why God allows evil, but why He allows good? People never praise Him, never worship Him, never love Him, but soon as something bad happens to us we blame God for it, but when good happens to us, we never thank God. Doesn't seem fair to me.

 

[bling]

We can allow the Holy Spirit to do good through us. Yes, we do quench the Spirit and go on our own sinning, but that is our free will choice as Christians.

 

[Ivan Hlavanda]

We can allow the Holy Spirit to do good through us. Yes, we do quench the Spirit and go on our own sinning, but that is our free will choice as Christians.

The question is, why does God do good to us all when we constanly sin against Him. My mind cannot comprehend such love. Nothing is more beautiful than God's love, and nothing is more important than having a loving relationship with God.

 

[BobRyan]

People constantly ask why God allows evil. But no one ever asks why He allows good.

We constantly sin, and yet He is loving and kind. We constantly sin, but He judges no one (even though we constantly judge Him), so we can all come to Him and repent, and have eternal life.

We constantly mock Him, yet He brings the sun, the rain and gives us fruitful ground so we can have food. He gives us air to breath, He gives heartbeat to our hearts. He blesses us with families, with relationship, even though many will never thank Him. He gave material for houses and wisdom to builders so we have somewhere to live, but no one ever cares.

All the good comes from God, He loves us with pure love, yet we do nothing, but evil. We know He cannot lie, but we do not trust Him. We know He is all powerful, yet we depend on ourselves rather than Him.

No one loves us more than God, yet we are most evil towards Him, and yet He still loves us despite this.

He forgives our sins freely, yet it costed Him everything, He gave His life for us. Honestly, what more do we want from God? He sent His Son to bring us back to be in loving relationship with Him, but what to we do? Constantly sin, mock Him, do evil, say there is no God, worship idols. God's love cannot be comprehended, how can He love us so much? Just how?

The Son of God comes to Earth and all He does is good to us, heal us and what do we do? Call Him demon, crazy, mock Him, crucify Him. Yes we all crucified Him with our sins, we are all guilty.

Why doesn't God just throw us all into hell? At least no one will sin against Him, no one will mock His Holy name.

I can at least understand why God allows evil, but why He allows good? People never praise Him, never worship Him, never love Him, but soon as something bad happens to us we blame God for it, but when good happens to us, we never thank God. Doesn't seem fair to me.

Why allow Evil? Why not nip it in the bud saving 1/3 of the angels, saving his own torture misery and death on the cross, saving almost all of planet Earth before the flood and saving "the MANY" of Matt 7 rather than the "FEW"?

Why not robot-program all to 100% obedience saving everyone all that trouble.

Why "allow" evil?

Apparently God values free will

The question is, why does God do good to us all when we constantly sin against Him. My mind cannot comprehend such love. Nothing is more beautiful than God's love, and nothing is more important than having a loving relationship with God.

True. But as we see in the case of the flood --- "There is a limit" and beyond that limit the entire planet Earth was wiped out.

So as we see in Rom 3 - "God is BOTH just and merciful"


Just in that Jesus pays the exact penalty that the Law demands for sin -- for each human in all of time.
Just in that the Romans 2 judgment differentiates between real Christians and fake ones as Matt 7 also states.
Merciful in that Jesus says to the woman caught in adultery "neither do I condemn you" - Jesus "Draws all mankind unto Him " John 12:32

 

[Ivan Hlavanda]

Why allow Evil?

 

[BobRyan]

God did not create Satan or fallen Angels for the purpose of falling/being evil. He knew what they would do but did not create them to do evil - He allowed that free will choice.

In that video we see these topics

1 Evil Exists -- true.
* Death and decay exists -- true (as a result of the fall not God's original Creation) - so this is temporary
*. Sinful nature exists - true
*. Demons exists - true (but they were not created that way) - they are 1/3 of the holy angels
2. Only one God (Triune Godhead). One God in three persons.
(*. Sovereign but is not doing everything. So for example He is not taking his own name in vain when someone takes His name in vain)

* God has a purpose for allowing Evil... but God is not evil and does not cause Evil.
3. God sovereignly chose free will "Whosoever will may come"... "He came to HIS OWN and His OWN received Him not" John 1:10
Is 5:4 "What MORE was there to do than that which I have already done? WHY THEN when I expected GOOD did it produce bad?"

Clearly God is not to blame for evil, does not program it into existence, does not cause it. He ALLOWS it. He foreknows all about it.

God does not claim to be responsible for EVIL - McArthur appears to insist that HE IS responsible not merely for ALLOWING it but for CAUSING It - willing it.

2 Peter 3 "God is NOT WILLING for ANY to perish but rather for ALL to come to repentance" - yet God tells us that "the many are lost" in the end of all of this in Matt 7.

Matt 23 Jesus says "Jerusalem .. HOW I WANTED to spare you.. but YOU would not" --- He does not say "HOW I wanted to spare you - but I would not let myself do it". God does not blame Himself when others take His name in vain as if He told them, made them do it.

 

[RileyG]

God allows good because we have free will. We can do good only if we cooperate with the grace of God.

 

[bling]

The question is, why does God do good to us all when we constanly sin against Him. My mind cannot comprehend such love. Nothing is more beautiful than God's love, and nothing is more important than having a loving relationship with God.

Godly type Love goes way beyond logic, so it cannot be explained logically. Everything God does or allows to happen is to help willing individuals in fulfilling their earthly objective. There can come a time (which only God would know) when an individual has had all the opportunities, he needs to make the choice to humbly accept God's Love as pure undeserved charity but refuses to accept and nothing more can be done to help them to accept of their own free will. So, at that point they loss their first objective and take on the objective of being a help to others in choosing to humbly accept God's Love. This means they could become an example of what a person does not want to become and be hell bound.
The indwelling Holy Spirit cannot be involved in sin, but a Christian can quench the Spirit and go about sinning, but the power is there to keep from sinning.

 

[Maria Billingsley]

People constantly ask why God allows evil. But no one ever asks why He allows good.

We constantly sin, and yet He is loving and kind. We constantly sin, but He judges no one (even though we constantly judge Him), so we can all come to Him and repent, and have eternal life.

We constantly mock Him, yet He brings the sun, the rain and gives us fruitful ground so we can have food. He gives us air to breath, He gives heartbeat to our hearts. He blesses us with families, with relationship, even though many will never thank Him. He gave material for houses and wisdom to builders so we have somewhere to live, but no one ever cares.

All the good comes from God, He loves us with pure love, yet we do nothing, but evil. We know He cannot lie, but we do not trust Him. We know He is all powerful, yet we depend on ourselves rather than Him.

No one loves us more than God, yet we are most evil towards Him, and yet He still loves us despite this.

He forgives our sins freely, yet it costed Him everything, He gave His life for us. Honestly, what more do we want from God? He sent His Son to bring us back to be in loving relationship with Him, but what to we do? Constantly sin, mock Him, do evil, say there is no God, worship idols. God's love cannot be comprehended, how can He love us so much? Just how?

The Son of God comes to Earth and all He does is good to us, heal us and what do we do? Call Him demon, crazy, mock Him, crucify Him. Yes we all crucified Him with our sins, we are all guilty.

Why doesn't God just throw us all into hell? At least no one will sin against Him, no one will mock His Holy name.

I can at least understand why God allows evil, but why He allows good? People never praise Him, never worship Him, never love Him, but soon as something bad happens to us we blame God for it, but when good happens to us, we never thank God. Doesn't seem fair to me.

Thank you Father!

 

[DrenchedInHisBlood]

God did not create Satan or fallen Angels for the purpose of falling/being evil. He knew what they would do but did not create them to do evil - He allowed that free will choice.

In that video we see these topics

1 Evil Exists -- true.
* Death and decay exists -- true (as a result of the fall not God's original Creation) - so this is temporary
*. Sinful nature exists - true
*. Demons exists - true (but they were not created that way) - they are 1/3 of the holy angels
2. Only one God (Triune Godhead). One God in three persons.
(*. Sovereign but is not doing everything. So for example He is not taking his own name in vain when someone takes His name in vain)

* God has a purpose for allowing Evil... but God is not evil and does not cause Evil.
3. God sovereignly chose free will "Whosoever will may come"... "He came to HIS OWN and His OWN received Him not" John 1:10
Is 5:4 "What MORE was there to do than that which I have already done? WHY THEN when I expected GOOD did it produce bad?"

Clearly God is not to blame for evil, does not program it into existence, does not cause it. He ALLOWS it. He foreknows all about it.

God does not claim to be responsible for EVIL - McArthur appears to insist that HE IS responsible not merely for ALLOWING it but for CAUSING It - willing it.

2 Peter 3 "God is NOT WILLING for ANY to perish but rather for ALL to come to repentance" - yet God tells us that "the many are lost" in the end of all of this in Matt 7.

Matt 23 Jesus says "Jerusalem .. HOW I WANTED to spare you.. but YOU would not" --- He does not say "HOW I wanted to spare you - but I would not let myself do it". God does not blame Himself when others take His name in vain as if He told them, made them do it.

Let me share this video of me and a friend talking about Apologetics. She seems to be able to talk about Apologetics when I bring it up and I thought I should start video recording us when we talk about it. I’m thinking others might benefit from it. It seems that it’s a talent she has. What do you guys think of the way she answers? I basically brought up challenge questions I heard from others before and I asked her to answer them. If you guys think it’s worth letting others hear it, and if you think it’s a special talent, I will record our other talks too and share them. This is in 2 parts because we used Zoom which has a time limit.