South Hills Church Community

Have you ever wondered why the God who is called good gets blamed for all the bad stuff that happens?  For example, a major hurricane strikes and people ask "Why would a good God allow something like this to happen?"  Or a child is kidnapped, hurt or killed and people ask again, "How can a good God allow something like this to happen?" 

I think they are asking a good question but they are blaming the wrong God.

Look at this scripture and see if you can pick up what I am getting at:

 "Again, the devil *took Him to a very high mountain, and *showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory; and he said to Him, "All these things will I give You, if You fall down and worship me.""

 ""Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world shall be cast out.""

 "I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me;"

"and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged."

"No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons."

"in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience."

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places."

"We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one."

"And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he should not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time."

[Matthew 4:8, 9; John 12:31, 40; 14:30; 16:11; 1 Corinthians 10:20; Ephesians 2:2; 6:12; 1 John 5:19; Revelation 20:2, 3]

The true God, the Almighty, revealed to us in the Bible and in Jesus, the Christ is NOT NOW the God of this world.  Satan is.  We asked God politely to leave in the garden.  We continue to rebel against him in our sinful condition and actions.  But He is all-powerful and He is establishing a kingdom that will one day vanquish the present "ruler of this world."  

 So, the next time people want to blame the "good God" on all the problems of this broken world, maybe you should remind them that the real god of this world is not very good at all.