If God is Good, Why Much Evil in the World? -Part II

When we try to understand God, we almost always look at Him horizontally. By that I mean that we look at Him from our point in time and our point of view. It is the way that we look at most people and it is not surprising that we would do the same with God. We ask questions that have no view to the way He is, but rather to the questions we have. Our expectation is that when we use this approach, sooner or later we will be able to find a valid answer.

The problem is that we see things with a view to time, or as the physicists would say, space-time. But the Bible tells us that God created time, that he existed before time. it is hard to get a handle on what that means or how you can exist apart from time. But the physicists agree, that time began when the universe began, and whether you are a Christian, a Jew, a Moslem, a deist, an agnostic or an atheist, you come to a barrier at the beginning of the universe.

The universe had to begin with flux, that is, change. One moment it was not, then it was. This is change. But change always requires time when we talk of material things, but time was not yet created. It was about to come into being. How then the flux ?

But, not only was there flux, there was velocity, acceleration. Whatever God lives in supersedes time. It has properties that are like time in some ways, but are not attached to our universe. The Bible says that He inhabits eternity and I think that eternity is not endless time, but the time substitute that God lives in, which, in fact, is endless.

Creating a universe from nothing is not as easy as it may seem. It requires thought: not just ideas, but wisdom. Before I go on, why not take a moment to decide what would need to be decided? Even if you are not a believer in God, this is an exercise that you can participate in. Determine what your thoughts are and then I will share mine.