God - God is the Perfect Absence of Evil (God Series, #4) / God Series (ePub)

God - God is the Perfect Absence of Evil

Those who choose to reject God, perhaps God's existence will often also claim that if He does exist that this God of the Bible is evil. Making God out to be evil like so many things when taught convincingly is frequently believed. That conclusion is easily refuted, and this book brings truth and clarity. Indeed, God has revealed His nature, we might say His character in detail, and it is the only way we can understand Him. Yet, some people with strong opposition against the limitations God imposes on humankind, on the retribution He will apply for disobedience and the fear He has included as a constituent of knowledge will consider God to be evil. How could such logic be wrong? We might ask how God can create everything from nothing and by speaking it into existence. The point is we know nothing from outside our realm unless God reveals it. That would include the character He has so graciously revealed regarding Himself. That character is consistently revealed as the opposite of evil. Evil is totally alien to God and so rigidly incompatible that it is the defining element for the test devised for humankind. Simply said, God cannot share the Divine Nature with evil.

Humankind rightly observes the suffering in the world, the unfairness, the greed, and evil seems to be everywhere. There are good times, beautiful moments but nothing is lasting as all recognize the shortness of life and even if one avoids the tragedies of life there is bound to be suffering with aging. God with His infinite capabilities could have created a world without all this evil, all this suffering. Although it might be counterintuitive God has provided enough for humankind to understand Him and one significant understanding is that God has placed restraints on Himself. The correct picture of God is provided and understandable to those who love the truth. It will easily displace humankind's logic that concludes God is evil. Then one will declare, "I never thought of that." Significantly more important than discovering God is perfect in goodness (zero evil) will be learning the truth about what you must do to share in the Divine Nature.