Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Greatest Question

Dear Victorious,

What do you think is the greatest unanswered question that mankind might have for God?

Larry T. - Springdale, SC

Dear Larry,

Well, I for one would like a better answer to why God created us in the first place. (I know it was to please Himself, but somehow that doesn't seem worth it.) But probably the bigger question that doesn't seem to have any answer (other than it pleases Him somehow) is why God hasn't eradicated evil yet.

It's fair to say that all of the unanswered questions do have answers. We just haven't discovered them yet, or they haven't been revealed to us yet. But the answers exist. This is where faith becomes more relevant. We go on believing in answers that we don't even have access to. At a broad level, we can understand that things which don't seem to make sense to us - like the ongoing proliferation of evil - somehow fit into God's grand plan for everything. And that is where we find hope in the midst of those unanswered questions.

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