Finding Security in a Troubled World
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Finding Security in a Troubled World
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Theodicy (M): Misc. beliefs about why God lets a pandemic happen
Theodicy (S): Pandemic as punishment for Sin. Or not!
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What that’s telling us is that in ancient history recorded in the Word of God, when God brought about a calamity, it was inevitably a judgment, and that judgment had a warning, and the warning would always come from God to the prophets. The prophets would warn the people, and then God would bring His judgment where there was a failure to repent. God is not hiding from His own judgments. God will declare His right as a just and holy God to judge sin and iniquity; and when judgment comes, God takes full responsibility for it. Again, people want to exonerate God from trouble as if somehow that made Him less than holy and pure, when the fact of the matter is, His holiness, His absolute purity and righteousness demands justice and judgment. The question is not, “Why does God allow these things to happen?” The question is, “Why doesn’t God allow them to happen more often or even terminally?”
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2022-12-16
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John F. MacArthur
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