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Comments of the Week Feb 3-9 “To ‘challenge AND confirm their beliefs’? That’s not a thing.” –Peter Veith on Southern Professors Explore Connection Between Faith and Science Comments on Our Dearly Deported, The Omnipresent Divine Spirit, Adventists & Immigration, Southern Professors Explore the Connection Between Faith & Science, Satire about Trump Praising the GC for […] Source: https://atoday.org/comments-of-the-week-feb3-9/
La semana pasada, un pastor de Estados Unidos escribió en Facebook sobre una llamada desesperada que había recibido de una familia de su iglesia. El padre de la familia -uno de los ancianos de la iglesia- había sido detenido en el trabajo por el ICE (Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas) y su esposa […] Source: https://atoday.org/editorial-apreciamos-a-nuestros-queridos-deportados/
Daily Lesson for Monday 10th of February 2025
The end of history will come with the triumph of love over evil. But, in the meantime, many troubling questions remain. How can we think and talk about the problem of evil in a way that might be helpful?
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In the narrative, Job had suffered much and had voiced many questions himself about why so much evil and suffering had befallen him. He requested an audience with God in order to seek answers to his questions, not knowing that far more was going on behind the scenes, in the heavenly court (see Job 1:1-22; Job 2:1-13).
God’s response to Job is striking. Specifically, “the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: ‘Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?’ ” (Job 38:1-2, NKJV). One translation puts it this way: “Why do you talk so much when you know so little?” (Job 38:2, CEV). And, God adds in Job 38:4, “ ‘Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding’ ” (NKJV).
By His responses to Job, God made it clear to Job that there are many things that Job did not know and did not understand. Like Job, we, too, should humbly recognize that there are many things going on in the world, and behind the scenes, that we know nothing about. The fact that we may not know the answers to our questions does not mean there are no good answers or that one day everything will not be resolved. Until then, we need to trust in the goodness of God, which has been revealed to us in so many ways.
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Think about how little we know about anything. Why, then, should we learn to live with unanswered questions about the most difficult of subjects: evil and suffering? |
(2)Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/25a-07-there-are-many-things-we-do-not-know/
Last week a pastor in the United States wrote on Facebook about a frantic call he had received from a family in his church. The father of the family—one of the church elders—had been picked up at work by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and his wife didn’t know what was happening to him. “Pastor, […] Source: https://atoday.org/editorial-our-dearly-deported/
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