I
can mourn with and pray for the families in Connecticut who lost their
children (and in a few cases their spouses) in the school shooting. I
certainly cannot offer any definitive explanation. I am dedicating this
week’s three blogs to perspectives that may be helpful to some. Keep in
mind that we are treating only a few aspects of the problem of evil, and
therefore much will remain unaddressed. For a larger perspective, see my books on this issue, in particular If God is Good.
Acts of extreme evil, though routinely used as arguments against God, are actually arguments for supernaturalism.
I spent hours walking through Cambodia’s
Killing Fields. Vek and Samoeun Taing, a gentle Cambodian couple who had
survived there with a young child for two years, escorted our small
group. Feeling numb, I saw the skulls piled up and stood by the mud pits
where killers threw hundreds of bodies. A human jawbone lay at my feet.
I picked it up, held it in my hand, and wept.
The darkness felt overwhelming. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge murdered nearly one-third of the country’s population. Yet the three million slaughtered in Cambodia amount to less than one-fiftieth of
the murders by twentieth century tyrants, who killed mostly their own
people. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao accounted for most of the carnage, but
the ongoing state-sponsored killing in Sudan, including the Darfur
region, follows the same script. (And this figure ignores the staggering
number of preborn children aborted throughout the world.) Continue at Randy Alcorn
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