Why Does God Permit Wickedness and Suffering? (Part 1)

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Author: Arthur ZuluContact Author: mailto: [email protected]: Copyright © Arthur Zulu 2002Word Count: 507Web Address: http://www.1stbooks.com/bookview/10975Publishing Guidelines: ...
Author: Arthur ZuluContact Author: mailto: [email protected]: Copyright © Arthur Zulu 2002Word Count: 507Web Address: http://www.1stbooks.com/bookview/10975Publishing Guidelines: Permission is granted topublish this article electronically or in print as long as thebylines are included.A courtesy copy of your publication would beappreciated.WHY DOES GOD PERMIT WICKEDNESS & SUFFERING?(Part 1)By Arthur Zulu“WHY”. That three letter word is so common whendisasters strike.
It is the final question when war ornatural disasters happen. Or when epidemics exacttheir toll on humans.
Or when a rapist, or robber goeson rampage. Or perhaps when children are abused bypersons who are supposed to be their custodians, orwhen a loved one drops dead.Sometimes though the “WHY” is elongated to “WHY GODWHY” That suggests the person acknowledges that Godallows evil.
If so, why does he permit wickedness andsuffering? If we say we are not victims of wickedness andsuffering, then we are deceiving ourselves. For havewe not lost someone in death? Or are we ourselves surewe will be around to shoot fireworks at the end of thenext one hundred years? Perhaps not.Man through the ages have resigned to theinevitability of misery and death.
A sample of thefollowing quotations will shed more light on thismatter.“For suff’rance is the badge of all our tribe”. --Shakespeare.“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is notnecessary; men alone are quite capable of everywickedness.” -- Joseph Conrad.“Account ye no man happy till he die.” -- Euripides.“Out out brief candle/Life’s but a walking shadow”.
--Shakespeare.“Vice increases, and men grow daily more and morewicked.”-- Berkley.“To each his suff’ring: all are men/Condemn’d alike togroan…. “ -- Gray.“Death! the poor man’s dearest friend, -- The kindestand the best.” -- Burns.“Death is here and death is there/Death is busyeverywhere/All around, within, beneath/Above is death-- and we are death.” -- Shelley.“.
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In this world nothing is certain than death andtaxes.” --Benjamin Franklin.“When life is woe/And hope is dumb/The world says,‘Go’/ The Grave says, ‘come!’ “ -- Arthur Gutterman.“Ask not for whom the bell tolls/It tolls for thee.”-- John Donne.“Pale Death, with impartial step, knocks at the poorman’s cottage and the palaces of kings.” -- Horace.“Time goes you stay? Ah no! Time stays, we go.” --Austin Dobson.“Life is not worth living. Existence is only aburden.” -- Mark Twain.
“When the gods want to punish us, they answer ourprayer.” -- Oscar Wilde.“We men are wretched things, and the gods, who have nocares themselves, have woven sorrow into the verypattern of our lives.” -- Homer.“Solomon Grundy/Born on a Monday/. .
.Died onSaturday /Buried on Sunday/This is the end /Of SolomonGrundy.” -- J.D. Halliwell.The story of Solomon Grundy is the story of us all.Somebody was once asked to define man; and he simplysaid: “He was born, he suffered, he died.” The account of human suffering have elicited differentreactions from various victims.
Some believe that Godis responsible for wickedness and human suffering. Asan example , one whose house was shattered by anearthquake in a South American country said :” God,see what you have done to us! ”.Yet, others feel that there is no God, or if heexists, he doesn’t really care about us.
Asked aWorld War I victim: “Where was God when we neededhim?”The depth of pain that is caused by the wickedness andsuffering in this world cannot be fathomed. Said aNazi holocaust victim: “If you could lick my wound,it would poison you”.Now the question remains: Why does God permitwickedness and suffering? Does he really exist? Whenwould wickedness and suffering end?But first, what is the origin of wickedness?(To be continued)Copyright © 2002, all rights reserved About the Author:ARTHUR ZULU, The Most Controversial Writer in the World, presents the above article as an example of topics that make best-sellers.
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