I said, “Can I ask you a question? On every university campus I visit, somebody stands up and says that God is an evil God to allow all this evil into our world. This person typically says, ‘A plane crashes: Thirty people die, and twenty people live. What kind of a God would arbitrarily choose some to live and some to die?’” I continued, “but when we play God and determine whether a child within a mother’s womb should live, we argue for that as a moral right. So when human beings are given the privilege of playing God, it’s called a moral right. When God plays God, we call it an immoral act. Can you justify this for me?” That was the end of the conversation.
Ravi Zacaharias
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Why Does God Allow Tragedy and Suffering?

by Lee Strobel

Source: chcc.org

God doesn’t send people to Hell, people send themselves.

Is the problem supposed to be simply the idea that a loving God wouldn’t send people to hell? Is that what the problem is? Well, I don’t think so. The Bible says that God desires all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4; 2 Pet. 3:9). Therefore, through the work of the Holy Spirit, God draws all men to Himself, seeking to convict them of sin and bring them to repentance. Anybody who makes a free and well-informed decision to reject Christ thus seals his own fate; he is self-condemned. His damnation can’t be blamed on God: on the contrary, he has resisted God’s every effort to save him. He separates himself from God forever, in defiance of God’s will that he be saved. In a sense, then, God doesn’t send anybody to hell—people send themselves.

— William Lane Craig, Hard Questions, Real Answers

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