It's that time again. Your favorite time of the week - Friday mentionables!
Theology
Sentintias
Why I'm not an Arminian
Paul Helm Shunning
Middle Knowledge
Theology for the Church
ROSES vs TULIP
Design of Providence
Therapeutic Theology III: the lost context
Uncategorized
A View From the Right
Atheism is Patriotic? What the...?
Nietzsche on the Deaths of Socrates and Jesus
Quotes on suffering from Sproul and Bill Craig
"God deserves to be trusted. He merits our trust in Him. The more we
understand of His perfections, the more we understand how trustworthy He
is. That is why the Christian pilgrimage moves from faith to faith,
from strength to strength, and from grace to grace. It moves toward
a crescendo.
and
The bottom-line assumption for anyone who believes in the God of
providence is that ultimately there are no tragedies. God has promised
that all things that happen—all pain, all suffering, all tragedies—are
but for a moment, and that He works in and through these events for the
good of those who love Him (Rom. 8:28).
That’s why the apostle Paul said that the pain, the suffering, the
affliction that we bear in this world isn’t worthy to be compared, isn’t
worthy to be mentioned in the same breath, with the glory and the
blessedness that God has stored up for His people (Rom. 8:18)."
Sproul,
Surprised by Suffering
"Christ endured
a suffering beyond all understanding: he bore the punishment for the
sins of the whole world. None of us can comprehend that suffering.
Though He was innocent, He voluntarily underwent incomprehensible
suffering for us. And why? - because He loves us so much. How can we
reject him who gave up everything for us?
When we
comprehend his sacrifice and his love for us, this puts the problem of
evil in an entirely different perspective. For now we see clearly that
the true problem of evil is the problem of our evil. Filled with
sin and morally guilty before God, the question we face is not how God
can justify Himself to us, but how we can be justified before Him.
When God asks
us to undergo suffering that seems unmerited, pointless, and
unnecessary, meditation upon the cross of Christ can help to give us the
moral strength and courage needed to bear the cross that we are asked
to carry. So, paradoxically, even though the problem of evil is the
greatest objection to the existence of God, at the end of the day God is
the only solution to the problem of evil. If God does not exist, then
we are locked without hope in a world filled with gratuitous and
unredeemed suffering. God is the final answer to the problem of evil,
for He redeems us from evil and takes us into the everlasting joy of an
incommensurable good, fellowship with Himself."
William Lane Craig,
The Problem of Evil
